This document outlines a proposed business continuity and disaster recovery solution for a customer using VMware technologies. It discusses assessing the customer's current environment, designing a solution using VMware vSphere Data Protection, vSphere App HA, vCenter Site Recovery Manager, and storage replication to provide local data protection, application high availability, and disaster recovery capabilities. An example project timeline is also included.
5. Business Objectives
• Business requirements
– Confirm that vital business services are available if a disaster occurs.
Recover services from primary SITE_A at LOCATION_A to SITE_B at
LOCATION_B
– Regulatory compliance requires periodic testing and exercising of business
continuity plan. Perform periodic disaster recovery testing without impacting
production services
– Provide a solution that scales for future business services
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Consultant: Insert the customer’s business requirements as provided by the sales
team. This shows that VMware understands the high-level business requirements
before the project starts. It is important for all project team members to understand
these requirements, because this might be the first exposure to the project for some
of the people in the room.
7. Solution
Overview
Assess
Design
Deploy
Validate
Knowledge
Transfer
How Our Journey Together Will Work
Knowledge transfer of the
VMware proven, validated
solution for your business
Assess the current state
relative to the validated
design, identify gaps
and remediation
Create a remediation
plan to close the gap
between the current and
the proven solution state Implement or
remediate against the
proven solution and
integrate that into your
ecosystem
Validate complete
solution from a
technology, people, and
process perspective Operationalize the
solution in the client
environment, and then
focus on running and
supporting the solution
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8. Example Project Timeline
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Activities / Week
1
2
3
4
Phase 1: Planning
Phase 2: Kickoff
Phase 3: Solution Overview
Phase 4: Assess
Phase 5: Design
Phase 6: Deploy
Phase 7: Validate
Phase 8: Knowledge Transfer
Phase 9: Conclusion
Consultant: Replace this image with your customer project timeline.
10. Overall Conceptual Design
• Provide local data protection, application high availability, and disaster
recovery solution for your software-defined data center (SDDC) platform
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12. With VMware vSphere Data Protection
Advanced
• To protect virtual machine data with
consistency
• To be able to restore on the file level and
the application level through the VMware
vSphere® Data Protection™ guest
operating system agent
• To provide secure backup replication
vSphere Data
Protection
Advanced
Production Cluster
Tier0
SSD
Storage Arrays
Tier1
FC15K
Tier2
FC10K
Tier3
SATA
SAN
Protected
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13. With VMware vSphere App HA
• To protect applications against
failures in conjunction with VMware
vSphere High Availability
• To monitor and raise awareness on
application service status
• To notify administrators when the
service is unstable or unavailable
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vSphere HA-Enabled Cluster
Tier0
SSD
Storage Arrays
Tier1
FC15K
Tier2
FC10K
Tier3
SATA
SAN
APP HA
Monitored
15. With VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
• Service protection in case of disaster events
• Provide a solution for automating the setup and execution of the
disaster recovery plans and workflows in a vSphere Infrastructure
Recovery Site
AppHA
AppHA
Not Replicated
Replicated
VR
Replicated
Not Replicated
Disaster Recovery
vSphere Replication (VM Granularity)
Storage Vendor Replication (Datastore/LUN)
Storage Replication
VR
SRAq
Network Topology DR Aware
Network Extensibility
q Hybrid
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17. VMware Business Continuity
and Disaster Recovery
Accelerator Service
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