BCO1883-Deploying An Active Active Datacenter With SRM 5 - Final - US PDF

INF-BCO1883
Deploying an Active/Active Datacenter with SRM 5
Michael Bailess, American National Bank Joe Kelly, Varrow
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Deploying an Active/Active Data Center with VMware SRM 5.x

INF-BCO1883 Speaker: Joe Kelly Speaker: Michael Bailess Speaker: Greg Camp Technical Level: Technical Area of Interest: Financial Services
Session:
Breakout Session
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Key Takeaways
VM mobility across any distance with the ease of a reboot Application shifting across datacenters. Perpetual DR testing. What we deem as Active/Active Key features of SRM 5 and EMC RecoverPoint that will get you there
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Agenda
Introduce who we are, our challenges and our expectations Discuss design constraints and clearly redefine our Active/Active Datacenter Explain our Design, Technology used and Networking Q&A
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AMNB Who We Are

Community bank with assets of $1.3 billion, Headquartered in Danville, VA with 25 banking offices in Virginia and North Carolina Serving the community for 103 years 2 data centers, 310 VMs total Per-virtual data center resources
CPU: 60ghz Memory: 192GB Storage: 20tb
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AMNB Legacy Setup

DR Site was basically a data vault No proven DR plan Data center network was active at only one site concurrently No load-balancing
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AMNBs Expectations
Failover of applications not the entire data center Failover to be transparent to users and applications Utilize our total investment
Minimize cost and complexity
Partner involvement to back us up
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Varrow Who We Are

Value Added Reseller (VAR) in the Southeast known for the quality of our engineers; we focus on supporting our customers business with technology where it makes sense VMware Business Continuity Competency Partner of the Year 2011 Americas We know the data center; it is our focus, we are not designed to be the solution to all your technology purchases We have established a growing community of Varrow customers that is built on trust and a passion for technology
Environment Variables to Contend with (Constraints)

100MB dedicated line between DCs with ~20ms latency. Physical distance was only ~60 miles, right at supported 100km range for vMotion over distance. However, latency requirements were not. No L2 adjacencies. Changing IP addresses was far from transparent.
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Environment Variables to Contend with (Constraints)

Protection from logical corruption, Mirroring replication technologies were not sufficient. Efficiencies across the pipe were needed. Compression and bandwidth throttling. Mixing replication and Server traffic. Minimizing RTO (Recovery Time Objective)
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Redefining Active/Active Solutions

Dubbed Active/Active Datacenters Making the location transparent to the end user The same level of service can be provided at another location as it can to the primary location
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Redefining Active/Active Solutions

Active network and compute stacks at both locations, ideally stretched VLANs. Storage writes are written locally and replicated to other site Manual load balancing
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This is Not a Stretched Cluster Solution

No Shared R/W storage between sites No dynamic load balancing between sites No high availability between sites ESXi clusters are site bound
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But There are Commonalities

Both require more complex networking solutions
L2 adjacencies are required for stretched clusters and Highly desired for Active/Active datacenters.
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What Level of Application Mobility Do You Need?

Ask yourself How many applications/VMs actually require live crosssite vMotion a la Active/Active storage solutions (VPLEX) Are cross-site (Active/Active datacenters) cold migrations (via RP and SRM) an acceptable alternative giving the operational overhead and cost of the latter?
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VMware Site Recovery Manager

Why 5.x over 4.x Planned Migration: ensures changes are replicated
Shut down VM, synchronize storage, stop workflow on error Conversely, DR will not stop the workflow on error
Automatic failback, i.e., reprotection, allows for workflow based recovery of your failed over VMs back to your primary site
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EMC RecoverPoint
Replication engine Journaling Technology
Multiple points in time (every write) for recovery
Out of the data path replication WAN compression, throttling and Dedupe Reduces complexity during failover operations Bi-directional replication
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Summary of What Our Design Offers

No cross site distributed volumes are required. This reduces complexity and added expense. Per application mobility from one site to another with the ease of a per VM reboot
Not all environments require 100% uptime
Bring the applications closer to the most critical users in some cases Increased operational utilization across sites Ongoing, fully tested DR Plan
Some of the Details

VMFS datastores structured according to application
Single datastore in this use case but could be many supporting a single app
One Datastore per Consistency Group, one datastore per Datastore group
Note: datastore may include multiple VMs
One Protection Group per Recovery Plan. Mapped according to application.

Words of Advice
What level of recoverability are you accounting for?
DR only Secondary site is a data vault. Testing is limited. Internal vSwitch only tests availability. Cross Environment Isolation Testing Hardest to design for as you must consider external dependencies (both virtual and physical) Rolling Failover more planning up front but greater assurance of success.
Know your dependencies and now lets talk networking

VM Mobility Options
Stretched Vlan via Metro Ethernet
Traffic ingresses and egresses one data center
VM Mobility using Cisco LISP

Traffic ingresses and egresses at local data center
Stretched Vlan with FHRP Isolation

Traffic ingresses one data center and egresses local data center
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VM Mobility Choice
Stretched Vlan via Metro Ethernet
Does not utilize WAN links from both data centers
VM Mobility using Cisco LISP

Requires two Nexus 7ks which is cost prohibitive
Stretched Vlan with FHRP Isolation

Egress traffic uses local data center path, most traffic is egress in this customer scenario
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FHRP Isolation
Use Vlan ACL to block HSRP traffic between data centers Use any Cisco switch that is capable of using Vlan ACLs (i.e., Cisco 2960, 3560, etc.) at either data center Vlan ACL is applied inline on Layer 2 Metro Ethernet link
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FHRP Isolation
MPLS
Edge Router
Edge Router
Site A
Site B
Layer 2 Switch Layer 3 Switch HSRP VIP: 10.10.1.1 Block HSRP Traffic Metro Ethernet Layer 3 Switch HSRP VIP: 10.10.1.1
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Future Options
VM Mobility using Cisco Cloud Services Router
Cisco is offering a router in a VM
Redundant Layer 2 Link

Leverage OTV Layer 2 extension on Cisco Cloud Services Router Use existing Cisco 2951 router with Ethernet over MPLS over GRE
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Thank You! Any Questions?

e: jkelly@varrow.com t: @virtualtacit w: blog.virtualtacit.com e: bailessm@amnb.com t: @bailessm w: amnb.com e: gcamp@varrow.com
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INF-BCO1883
Deploying an Active/Active Datacenter with SRM 5
Michael Bailess, American National Bank Joe Kelly, Varrow
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INF-BCO1883

Deploying an Active/Active Datacenter with SRM 5

Michael Bailess, American National Bank Joe Kelly, Varrow

This session may contain product features that are

This session/overview of the new technology represents

Features are subject to change, and must not be included in

Deploying an Active/Active Data Center with VMware SRM 5.x

AMNB Who We Are

AMNB Legacy Setup

Partner involvement to back us up

Varrow Who We Are

Environment Variables to Contend with (Constraints)

Environment Variables to Contend with (Constraints)

Redefining Active/Active Solutions

Redefining Active/Active Solutions

This is Not a Stretched Cluster Solution

But There are Commonalities

What Level of Application Mobility Do You Need?

VMware Site Recovery Manager

Summary of What Our Design Offers

Some of the Details

One Protection Group per Recovery Plan. Mapped according to application.

Know your dependencies and now lets talk networking

VM Mobility using Cisco LISP

Stretched Vlan with FHRP Isolation

VM Mobility using Cisco LISP

Stretched Vlan with FHRP Isolation

Redundant Layer 2 Link

Thank You! Any Questions?

FILL OUT A SURVEY

Deploying an Active/Active Datacenter with SRM 5

Michael Bailess, American National Bank Joe Kelly, Varrow

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