Disaster Recovery Using RecoverPoint

OPERATIONAL & DISASTER RECOVERY USING RECOVERPOINT

Operational & Disaster Recovery using RecoverPoint

Table of Contents Introduction.................................................................................................................................................. 3 Business Challenge..........................................................................................................................................4 Solution ...........................................................................................................................................................5

Key Components........................................................................................................................................... 6 Ease of Integration, Comprehensive Features ...................................................................................................7

Lab Overview ................................................................................................................................................ 8 Lab Environment ..............................................................................................................................................9 Labs...............................................................................................................................................................10

Lab 1 - Introduction to Unisphere for RecoverPoint...................................................................................... 11 Lab Prerequisite ............................................................................................................................................12 Lab Scenario ..................................................................................................................................................13 Browse Unisphere for RecoverPoint ...............................................................................................................14 Protect Volumes.............................................................................................................................................33

Lab 2 - Operational Recovery using RecoverPoint ........................................................................................ 54 Lab Scenario ..................................................................................................................................................55 RecoverPoint Protecting the Organization Against Data Loss and Site Failure..................................................56

Lab 3 - Disaster Recovery using RecoverPoint with VMware Site Recovery Manager ..................................... 97 Lab Scenario ..................................................................................................................................................98 RecoverPoint Protecting the Organization Against Data Corruption using VMWARE Site Recovery Manager (SRM).............................................................................................................................................................99

Conclusion ............................................................................................................................................... 170 Conclusion...................................................................................................................................................171

Introduction

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Business Challenge Today’s IT challenges can be summarized into four simple categories: Any application, any array at any location and at any time. Any Application • • • •

Reduce backup-windows from hours to minutes and saves on storage space Increase performance Lowest recovery objective while testing and running DR processes Speed application’s backup with RecoverPoint’s bandwidth reduction, data compression, and deduplication technologies

Any Array • Application consistency between multiple arrays and multiple applications • Not only does RecoverPoint protect data, it does it for any vendor’s storage Any Location RecoverPoint Multi-Site • Support multi-site redundancy needs • Synchronous & asynchronous continuous local/remote replication • Up to 90% bandwidth reduction with data compression, deduplication technologies, and synchronously over IP Any Time • Few and inflexible ways to access data from a previous point • Instant data access to earlier version of your data from different points in time

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Solution This solution provides the following: Point-In-Time Recovery • RecoverPoint provides continuous data protection with multiple recovery points to restore applications instantly to a specific point in time. Continuous Replication • Protected applications with bidirectional synchronous and asynchronous replication in a physical virtual and cloud infrastructures. Simplified Testing • Streamline disaster recovery testing of your application environment while production replication continues unaffected. RecoverPoint integrates with vCenter Server to allow the RecoverPoint administrator to quickly view virtual machines fully protected by RecoverPoint, and to see which of the virtual machine’s LUNs/data stores are not protected. Additionally, RecoverPoint is integrated with VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to simplify and automate disaster recovery failover and failback in VMware Infrastructure. VMware vCenter SRM automates the recovery process so it becomes as simple as pressing a single button. There is no need for you to interact with the RecoverPoint console and the VMware console: instead VMware automates the process. All you have to do is ensure that the production virtual machines are mapped to LUNs that are replicated by RecoverPoint to the remote site.

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Key Components

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Ease of Integration, Comprehensive Features RecoverPoint Overview EMC RecoverPoint is a comprehensive data protection solution that provides integrated CRR and CDP, with bidirectional synchronous and asynchronous replication. RecoverPoint offers Fan-out where the same data can be protected to up-to 4 remote locations hence enabling businesses to achieve regulatory compliance and flexibility with various operational scenarios. RecoverPoint offers 4:1 Fan-in as well, where various data can be protected back to a centralized Disaster Recovery site. RecoverPoint allows users to recover applications Locally or Remotely to any point in time without impact to the production application or to ongoing replication. RecoverPoint offers heterogeneous replication with bandwidth efficiencies in IP or Fiber Channel synchronous or asynchronous replication environments, which lowers your multi-year total cost of ownership. RecoverPoint CDP enables you to roll back to any point in time for effective local recovery from events such as database corruption. RecoverPoint integrates with VMWARE Site Recovery Manager and enables point-in-time granularity for SRM environments through the use of it Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI). RecoverPoint is appliance-based, and it comes in a physical form or a virtual form (Virtual Machine) which enables it to better integrate in various environments and protect information stored across heterogeneous servers and storage environments. RecoverPoint uses lightweight splitting technology in the Symmetrix VMAX, Clariion VNX , and VPLEX to mirror a write to a RecoverPoint appliance that resides outside of the primary data path. Implementing this approach enables RecoverPoint to deliver continuous replication without impacting an application’s I/O operations.

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Lab Overview

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Lab Environment The environment for this lab includes the following: • • • • •

2 VNX Array 1 Domain Controller 2 Virtual Center Servers 2 Esx Hosts 4 virtual RecoverPoint Appliances

Terminology

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Labs Lab 1 - Introduction to Unisphere for RecoverPoint • Browsing Unisphere for RecoverPoiint • Protecting Volumes Lab 2 - Operational Recovery using Recoverpoint • RecoverPoint protecting the ogranization against data loss and site failure Lab 3 - Disaster Recovery usign RecoverPoint with VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) • RecoverPoint Protecting the Organization Against Data Corruption using VMWARE Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

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Lab 1 - Introduction to Unisphere for RecoverPoint

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Lab Prerequisite As this is a fully virtualized solution this offering should be provisioned at least 2 hours in advance of test/ presentation time to allow all components sufficient time to boot and initialize.

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Lab Scenario RainPole management has decided to protect a new application and has asked you to setup Local and Remote replication. Given the criticality of the application and since it is your first time using the RecoverPoint system, you've decided to log-in to the Unisphere for RecoverPoint and get familiar with the environment. You then proceed to setup protection for the required volumes. Once Replication has been setup, you report back to management that the critical database has been protected. In this lab you will do the following : • Browse Unisphere for RecoverPoint. • Protect Volumes - Create and work with Consistency Groups

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Browse Unisphere for RecoverPoint Login to Unisphere for RecoverPoint Locate Shortcut to Unisphere for RecoverPoint. If unable to locate shortcut, open a browser and type in: https://192.168.1.100

Right Click on the shortcut and select Open

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Accept Security Certificate warning and proceed to Unisphere

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Log-in to Unisphere for RecoverPoint To log in to Unisphere for RecoverPoint: User: admin Password: admin

Note: If you receive 2 login prompts, please use the same credentials to login (admin/admin)

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Dashboard Note the Cluster map, the environment consists of 2 Clusters connected via IP. New York and Cork. Alerts are summarized in the upper Right pane.

Overall Health - Connection Type Hover over the link line between the two clusters to see the type of connection. RecoverPoint supports interconnecting clusters via IP or FC

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Dashboard - System Traffic and Consistency Group Status To quickly review each Cluster's system traffic or review the status of all Consistency Group currently configured in the system, the lower panes offer a summarized view

Dashboard - Monitoring A detailed monitoring view is provided under 3 tabs: System, Groups and Splitters

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Dashboard - Reviewing System Events The third tab in the Dashboard is the System Events, it provides detailed event logs about the entire RecoverPoint environment

Protection Under the Protection tab, there are 3 wizards. Use this tab to configure Consistency Groups, manage Consistency Groups or manage Groups Sets

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Review existing Consistency Groups To review Consistency Groups that are currently protected with RecoverPoint, select Manage Protection

List Consistency Groups A list of Consistency Groups (CGs) will be displayed, note the Status and Transfer state of each CG. For instance Lab_2_Operational Recovery CG is shown below to be Enabled and in Active state.

Note: Active State indicates that the LUNs are protected in the Consistency Group and point-in-time images exist (and being created) for the Source LUNs at Local and Remote Copies. Active is the desired state that each Enabled CG should be in

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Review Protection Status To review the status of one of the listed Consistency Groups, select a Consistency Group from the list. As an example select Lab_2_Operational Recovery CG and view its overall status. Notice the following: 1. Production Copy in Cork 2. Local Copy in Cork 3. Remote Copy in New York You will use this tab later on to review the replication status of the Consistency Group that you will setup

Please note that the software version we're using in this lab was developed early on and since the GUI has significantly improved. If you notice that the Status tab is not displayed properly; please select a different tab and return to the Status tab

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Protection Statistics To review real-time statistics of the selected Consistency Group, select the Statistics tab and review various charts.

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Replication Sets If you need to validate which Volumes are being protected by a Consistency Group, select the Replication Sets tab. All protected replication sets will be listed. Note that each Copy is labeled properly according the Cluster it belongs to. Also in the lower part of the screen, the Splitter and array information are displayed for each Copy in that Replication Set.

Group Policy To view or make changes to a configured Consistency Group, select the Group Policy tab. In this tab the following can be modified: 1. Consistency Group name - The name of that particular Consistency Group 2. Assigned RPA - The primary RecoverPoint Appliance that's responsible for handling protection of the CG 3. Priority - A quality of service setting that allows you to prioritize Consistency Groups running on a particular RecoverPoint Appliance

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4. Distributed Consistency Group - A feature that allows a CG to run on up-to 4 RecoverPoint Appliances (Note: this feature is not available with Virtual RecoverPoint Appliances) 5. External Management - A setting that can be used to delegate the management of that particular CG to external applications such as SRM or RPCE

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Lag Optimization The Priority feature in RecoverPoint 4.0 offers an advanced Quality of Service setting. It allows you to set the priority of the Consistency Group manually. Groups with a priority of 'critical' are provided ten times the priority of normal groups. Groups with a priority of 'high' are provided three times the priority of normal groups. Groups with a priority of 'low' are provided 50% of the priority of normal groups. Groups with a priority of 'idle' are provided 1% of the priority of normal groups.

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Link Policy Under Link Policy tab, you can set the link type to be either Asynchronous or Synchronous for a particular copy. To define a Recovery Point Objective for a particular Consistency Group, choose the Copy and adjust the RPO value. The system will dynamically use its resources to achieve the defined RPO value.

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Journal Configuration To view the Journal volume configuration of a particular Copy 1. Click on the arrow next to the Consistency Group in the left pane list 2. Select the Journal Tab Notice that the system lists the current status of that particular Copy as well as the retention and protection details.

Point in Time and Bookmarks On the right side of the screen, you will see a list of available point-in-time images and any available bookmarks

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Copy Policy Under the Policy tab of a particular Copy, you can view and make changes to the name of the Copy, type of Operating System of the protected host. This tab also allows the user to configure a Journal Consolidation policy which allows for extending the retention period.

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Recovery Tab Select the Recover tab to review available options. Under the Recovery tab you can: 1. 2. 3. 4.

Use the Test a Copy wizard to enable an access to an image or bookmark at one of the available copies Use the Fail Over wizard to fail a Consistency Group to one of the available copies Use the Recover Production wizard to restore the production Copy using one of the selected copies Use the Manage Recovery to monitor and make changes to any of the on-going Recovery tasks

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RPA Clusters To view the configured RecoverPoint Clusters in the System, select the RPA Clusters tab. You will see a tab for each Cluster. RecoverPoint 4.0 allows up to 5 Clusters to be part of the same RecoverPoint System. These Clusters can be connected via IP or FC. In this lab, you will see the 2 Clusters New York and Cork, Click on each tab and review its configuration.

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Splitter Information To review the Splitter configuration for a particular Cluster, to add, remove or configure credentials, select Splitters from the list

RPA Information To see configured RPAs part of that specific Cluster, select RPAs from the list and you view the listed RecoverPoint Appliances in the right pane.

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Administration of RecoverPoint System Select the Admin tab to view configuration options for various settings: 1. Manage License - View, Add and Remove license files 2. System Analysis Tools - Collect Logs, Run system reports to balance load among RecoverPoint appliances or detect bottlenecks 3. Configure User accounts and/or Role Based Access Control 4. Configure Dial-home and System Reporting options

Summary At this point you have browsed and learnd the new Unisphere for RecoverPoint interface and noticed the similarity in the "feel" and "look" with other EMC products which use Unisphere such as VNX, VPLEX and VMAX. You're confident to move on to the next step which RainPole management has tasked with to protect one of the organization's critical applications.

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Protect Volumes Using Unisphere for RecoverPoint to create Consistency Groups In this part of the lab, you configure a Consistency Group to protect a critical database. RainPole management has requested that the application be protected both Locally and Remotely. You have identified the following: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Source Volume at Cork - This is the Volume that contains the production data Source Journal at Cork - This is the source journal volume required for the Production Copy Local Copy volume at Cork - This is the Local replica volume Local Copy Journal at Cork - This is the Local Copy journal volume required for the CDP Copy Remote Copy volume at New York- This is the Remote replica volume Remote Copy Journal at Journal- This is the Remote Copy journal volume required for the CRR Copy

To get started, under the Protection tab, select Protect Volumes

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Define Source Copy Under this step, configure the Consistency Group as follows: • • • • •

Enter 'Lab_1_CG Lab_1_CG' in the Consistency Group Name field Define a name for the Production Name copy, use 'PRD PRD' Ensure that Production Cluster is set to Cork Cork, where the application is currently running Select volumes to protect. Highlight OVERVIEW_DB_PROD(20) and OVERVIEW_LOG_PROD(21) Click on Next Define the Production Journa Journal

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Select Production Journal Highlight a volume to set it as a Production copy journal. In this example use OVERVIEW_JOURNAL_PROD(25) as the Production Copy journal. Once you have selected the journal volume, click on Next Add a Copy

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Add Replica Copy (CDP) Let us first configure the Local (CDP) copy for our Lab_1_CG. Define a Copy Name, enter CDP Select a Cluster, since this is going to be the local Copy, choose Cork Leave Protection Type set to default (Asychronous) and RPO is set to default (25 seconds). Then click on Select Volume to add a volume to the replication set

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Select Local Copy Volume Highlight the Local Copy (CDP) target volume OVERVIEW_LOG_CDP_(23) for the source OVERVIEW_LOG_PROD(21) and then click OK

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Select Local Copy Volume Highlight the Local Copy (CDP) target volume OVERVIEW_DB_CDP_(22) to pair it with the source volume OVERVIEW_DB_PROD(20) and then click OK

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Review Replication Set Review the pairings you chose between Production and Local copies. Click Next Select Copy Journal Settings to proceed.

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Select Local Copy Journal Select volume OVERVIEW_JOURNAL_CDP as the Local Copy CDP journal volume and then click Next Review the Group Settings to proceed

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Add Remote Copy In this step you have the option to select Finish to complete the configuration of the Consistency Group or to add additional copies. Since the management of RainPole has requested that the application be protected Remotely to the New York Data Center, click on Add Another Replica Copy to proceed

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Define Remote Copy Enter a Copy Name, use CRR Select New York as a Cluster Then start choosing target replica volumes by clicking on Select Volume as was done with the CDP Copy.

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Select Remote Copy Volume Choose a target volume to remotely protect OVERVIEW_LOG_PROD(21) OVERVIEW_LOG_PROD(21). Select OVERVIEW_LOG_CRR(21) and then click OK

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Select Remote Copy Volume Choose a target volume to remotely protect OVERVIEW_DB_PROD(20) OVERVIEW_DB_PROD(20). Select OVERVIEW_DB_CRR(20) and then click OK

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Modify Copy Protection Policy Review Replication Set volume selection. Next click on Modify Copy Protection Policy

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Set Remote Copy Operating System Type A new window will open, under the Copy Protection Policy tab, select Linux2_6 for the Host OS.

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Other OS Type values include

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Link Protection Policy Review settings under the Link Protection Policy tab. Under this tab you can select to set the replication type to be Synchronous or Asynchronous as well as defining RPO value for this copy. For this lab, you don't have to make any changes to the default settings. Click OK once ready to proceed.

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Proceed to Select Remote Copy Journal Click on Next Select Copy Journal Settings to proceed to configuring journal volumes for the CRR copy.

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Select Remote Copy Journal Highlight OVERVIEW_JOURNAL_CRR volume to select as the Remote Copy journal and then click on Next Review Group Settings to proceed

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Review Group Settings Review settings, ensure that Production is set at Cork and that there is a Local (CDP) and Remote (CRR) Copies and then Click on Finish to complete the configuration of your Consistency Group.

Manage Protection After clicking on Finish, the screen will refresh and display a list of configured Consistency Groups. Locate Lab_1_CG in the Consistency Groups list in the left pane and highlight it.

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Monitor Replication The Consistency Group state will change from Paused by System, to Init (%) and finally to Active state. Active state indicates that point-in-time images are available at the target copy.

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Ensure that both links are Active Monitor replication until both links are in Active state. RecoverPoint uses efficient initialization algorithm where only blocks which are different between source and target are transferred, hence saving on bandwidth in the case of remote replication and ensure quick protection of applications.

Summary At this point you have completed the configuration of a Consistency Group which offers Local and Remote continuous protection of your organization's critical application. Great job on protecting this critical application. RainPole's management is very confident that EMC RecoverPoint product features will allow them to meet and even exceed their Service Level Agreements.

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Lab 2 - Operational Recovery using RecoverPoint

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Lab Scenario RainPole has a critical application protected with RecoverPoint and RainPole's management has set a requirement to be able to recover this application using the Local copy or Remote copies. In the first part of this lab you will assume that an upgrade to the system goes wrong and you're required to restore the application using the Local copy. The second part of this lab will involve simulating a hardware failure to the production server and you'll be required to perform a failover to the remote site where a stand by host will continue to run the application.

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RecoverPoint Protecting the Organization Against Data Loss and Site Failure Before we get started, let us get familiar with the environment. We will login to the Unisphere for RecoverPoint and the Linux server.

Review Setup In this case the Consistency Group for the application that you will be recovering has been already created (If you would like to setup a Consistency Group refer to Lab#1). Follow the next few steps to get familiar with the Consistency Group setup and access the replicated host. Locate Shortcut to Unisphere for RecoverPoint. If unable to locate shortcut, open a browser and type in: https://192.168.1.100

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Right Click on the shortcut and select Open

Accept Security Certificate warning and proceed to Unisphere for RecoverPoint

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Log-into Unisphere for RecoverPoint To login to Unisphere for RecoverPoint use the following credentials: User: admin Password: admin

Note: If you receive 2 login prompts, please use the same credentials to login (admin/admin)

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Dashboard Note the Cluster map, the environment consists of 2 Clusters connected via IP. New York and Cork. Alerts are summarized in the upper Right pane.

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Navigate to Protection Tab Under the Protection tab, there are 3 wizards, select the Manage Protection Wizard to view configured Consistency Groups

Review existing Consistency Groups To review Consistency Groups that are currently protected with RecoverPoint, select Manage Protection

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List Consistency Groups A list of Consistency Groups (CGs) will be displayed, note the Status and Transfer state of each CG. For this lab we will be working with Lab_2_Operational Recovery CG. Notice that it's in an Enabled status and Active transfer state.

Note: Active State indicates that the LUNs are protected in the Consistency Group and point-in-time images exist (and being created) for the Source LUNs at Local and Remote Copies. Active is the desired state that each Enabled CG should be in

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Review Protection Status Take a moment to review the status of the Consistency Group, select it from the list. As an example select Lab_2_Operational Recovery CG and view its overall status. Notice the following: 1. Production Copy in Cork 2. Local Copy in Cork 3. Remote Copy in New York

Please note that the software version we're using in this lab was developed early on and since then the GUI has significantly improved. If you notice that the Status tab is not displayed properly; please select a different tab and return to the Status tab

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Confirm Replication Sets If you need to validate which Volumes are being protected by a Consistency Group, select the Replication Sets tab. All protected replication sets will be listed. Note that each Copy is labeled according to the Cluster that it belongs to. Also in the lower part of the screen, the Splitter and array information are displayed for each Copy in that Replication Set.

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Recovery Tab Select the Recovery tab to review available options. Under the Recovery tab you can: 1. 2. 3. 4.

Use the Test a Copy wizard to enable an access to an image or bookmark at one of the available copies Use the Fail Over wizard to fail a Consistency Group to one of the available copies Use the Recover Production wizard to restore the production Copy using one of the selected copies Use the Manage Recovery to monitor and make changes to any of the on-going Recovery tasks

Linux Servers Now, you want to login to the production (Cork). Locate PuTTY shortcut on the desktop, and double click

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Access Production Linux Server To access the production server, select Cork Linux 01, click on Load and then Open to establish SSH to the server

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Validate File System Login as root and for password enter Password123! The production volume has already been mounted on the Linux server at /data /data. This volume is protected by RecoverPoint Lab_2_Operational_Recovery Consistency Group. Once logged, validate that /data file system is mounted by running df -h

Write Production Data To simulate data being written to the protected volume, return to the Linux machine vm01 vm01. The protected volume /data should be empty, except for the system created lost+found folder. Use the ls command to verify. We will create three empty files and use ls to verify the files have been created. Enter the following commands at the prompt: cd /data

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ls touch file1 file2 file3 ls

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Return to Unisphere for RecoverPoint Return to the Unisphere for RecoverPoint interface and navigate to the Lab_2_Operational Recovery Consistency Group if you're not there already. Validate that both links are in Active state. Next we will create a Bookmark, by clicking on the Bookmark button at the bottom of the Status pane.

Create a Pre-Upgrade Bookmark A bookmark is simply a labeled point-in-time image. Typically bookmarks are taken before upgrades, patches, data structure changes and during quiesced state of the application. Every point-in-time image is Crash-Consistent Crash-Consistent. Bookmarks can be either crash-consistent if taken while the application is running or Application-Consistent if taken while the application is quiesced. In this scenario, you have worked with the database team who are planning a major data restructure and they have asked you to take a bookmark before they start their data restructure process. Enter a name for the bookmark, type Before_Upgrade

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Assuming the Bookmark was taken while the application was online, choose Crash-Consistent and click OK

Validate Bookmark Expand the Lab_2_Operational Recovery Consistency Group and select the CDP copy. Next select the Journal tab and validate that the bookmark which you've created in the previous step is in the CDP journal. By clicking on "Bookmark" at the top of the bookmark column you can sort by any named bookmarks. This can help you locate your bookmark faster.

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Data Corruption at Production After you have taken the bookmark, the database upgrade starts but unfortunately the Database Administrator updates the wrong table causing the application to break. RainPole management decides that they need to recover the database to a point pre-upgrade. Fortunately, RainPole has protected this database with RecoverPoint and have the ability to recover using many available images both locally and remotely. Once you get a request that the database team want the database to be restored, you quickly realize that the Local Copy is the best approach. You present the CDP copy to the Linux machine, verify the data and then restore production. Now, to simulate the data corruption, return to the Linux server window. Let's add some text to the file named file2 using the echo command. We then use the cat command to verify the text in the file. Enter the following command at the prompt to add text to to the file: echo "Wrong Data" >> file2 cat file2 Verify your output matches the example above. Oh no! We knew it! The database team didn't want that data in file2! The database need to be restored.

Unmount File System We now have few options: 1. We can perform Test a Copy (enable image) using the bookmark we took prior to the upgrade, mount the CDP copy on the local host and have the DBAs copy the file over from an alternate host or alternate file system to the prod file system

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2. We can Enable Image Access, validate the data and then perform a restore or recovery from the CDP copy back to production 3. Use the bookmark and perform Recovery. Since you have verified the bookmark, you felt confident that it contains the data as it was prior to the upgrade, you choose option #3. To recover the corrupted file system, remove host's access to it. cd / umount /data

Let's go back to Unisphere for RecoverPoint and recover production

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Begin the Recovery Process Select the Consistency Group Then select the CDP copy at Cork Click Next Select an Image

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Select Bookmark Select - An Image from the image list Then, select the bookmark that you created earlier Before_Upgrade Click Next Start Recovery

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Mount CDP Copy At this point the bookmark image that you have selected has been enabled. If you have a host which has access to the CDP copy, you can mount the file system and validate it. In our case the CDP copy is presented to the source Linux vm01

Validate Data Let us switch back to the putty session we had open to Linux vm01. Mount the replica volume and validate that file2 doesn't contain the Wrong Data string. blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdb mount -t ext4 /dev/sdb1 /replica cd /replica cat file2 as you can see it does not contain the Wrong Data string. Once data has been validated, you can unmount the /replica file system. cd /

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umount /replica

Complete Recovery Return to Unisphere for RecoverPoint and click on Finish

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Accept Warning The Recovery process from the CDP copy to the Production Copy will start. Once complete, you will get a message indicating that all Recovery tasks have been completed for that Copy. At this point you're ready to go back to the Linux vm01 host and mount the file system and validate the data

Validating Data, Restarting Application Return to the Linux vm01 host and issue mount /data validate the content of the file2 to ensure that it does not have the corrupted data "Wrong Wrong Data Data". cd /data cat file2 Congratulations, you have saved the application and restored it to pre-corruption state.

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Recover from Remote Copy After successfully recovering from corruption using the Local (CDP) copy, you're now being faced with a different scenario. In this scenario, the Linux production server in Cork encounters a hardware failure and requires repair, so RainPole management asks you to failover the application from Cork to New York where there is a target server that can run the application. This time we will use the Fail Over wizard under the Recovery tab.

Connect to VC01 (Cork) To simulate the hardware failure of the production Linux server vm01 vm01, we will log-in to VC01 and poweroff the server. Locate the VMware vSphere Client VC01 shortcut on the desktop and double click.

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Log-in to VC01 (Cork) Log-in information is saved but if required use Administrator and Password123!

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Power-off Lab_2_Linux_Prod Locate the Virtual Machine named Lab_2_Linux_Prod and from the main pane select power-off

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Begin Fail Over Process Return to Unisphere for RecoverPoint interface and in the 1st step of the Fail Over wizard, 1. Select the Consistency Group Lab_2 Operational Recovery 2. and then select which copy you want to fail over to, in this case click on the New York CRR copy 3. and select Next Select an Image to proceed

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Select an Image In the 2nd step of the Fail Over wizard, you can choose the image you want to fail over to. You have the ability to choose the latest image or an earlier image or bookmark. In this case we will go with the latest image. Choose logged access. In the logged access, RecoverPoint rolls the replica to the specified point-in-time image and then enables access to the copy. All changes made to the copy are tracked. Click Next Start Failover to continue

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Finish Fail Over At this point, the selected image has been enabled at the target site. You have the option of proceeding by clicking on the Finish button, or you can validate the image first before proceeding. We will validate the image and return back to this page when ready.

Locate VC02 Shortcut Return to the desktop and locate the Vmware vSphere Client VC02 shortcut. Double click to login

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Login to VC02 Login to VC02 (New York), if needed use Administrator and Password123! to authenticate. We will confirm that the remote linux host Lab_2_Linux_CRR is powered on.

Linux Servers Now, you want to login to the remote (New York) Linux server Locate PuTTY shortcut on the desktop, and double click

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Access Remote Linux Server To access the Remote Linux server, select New York Linux 01, click on Load and then Open to establish SSH to the server

Validate Image Log-in as root and for password enter Password123! The /data file system is not mounted by default at the remote Linux server at vm02 vm02. To mount the file system, rescan and mount it as /data (if the mount point does not exist, you can create it by running mkdir /data ) blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdb mount -t ext4 /dev/sdb1 /data

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df -h cd /data ls As you can see all our files are there and if you view the content of file2 you will see that it does not contain the corrupted data cat file2

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Complete Fail Over Since the mounted image contains the proper data, return to Unisphere for RecoverPoint and click on Finish to complete the Fail Over wizard

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Accept Warning You will receive a Warning window to validate that you understand the impact of performing a fail over on the current replication. The direction of Replication will be reversed . Please note that the CDP copy will not be active in this case since this lab is configured as RP/SE, it does not allow more than 1 Remote copy. Read and accept the warning by selecting Yes

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Run Production at the Remote site (New York) At this point, the application is running on the Remote (New York) side. To simulate that data is being generated, go back to the SSH session you established earlier and create a file NewYork touch NewYork

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Prepare for Failback After you have successfully failed over the application to the New York site, production continued to run in New York until the original production server vm01 in Cork has been repaired. Now RainPol's management has scheduled a time to perform a fail-back of the application back to Cork. To begin the fail-back process, power-off the server in New York. Use the VMware vSphere center connection VC02 VC02, select the Lab_2_linux_CRR virtual machine and in the Getting Started tab, select Power Off the virtual machine

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Initiate Fail-back At this point, the application is running New York and replication has been reversed back to Cork and you need to restore production back to Cork. Return to Unisphere for RecoverPoint and you should be under the Manage Recovery tasks page and select Fail Back to Production under the Lab_2 Operational Recovery Consistency Group recovery tasks

Select an Image to Fail Back to After you've selected Select Fail Back the wizard will take you to the 2nd step which is selecting an image. Use the latest image to fail-back to and click Next Start Failover to proceed.

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Complete Failback Process Click Finish to complete the wizard

Accept Warning You will receive a warning indicating that the direction of replication will be reversed and that journal history will be erased. Since the current target journal will become the source journal, it's understandable that all remaining point-intime images will be discarded. Click Yes to proceed.

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Review Recovery Activities Please note that after failing back, there are no outstanding Recovery Activities

Review Group Status Return to the Protection tab and Select the Manage Protection task.

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Ensure that Replication is back to normal Review the Group Lab_2 Operational Recovery status. Note that Cork is back set to production role and that both Local and Remote replication have been resumed.

Power on Production server Return to VC01 VMware vCenter and locate Lab_2_Linux_Prod server, and under the Getting Started tab, select Power on the virtual machine to start vm01 in Cork.

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Linux Servers Now, you want to login to the production (Cork) and verify that the application is running. Locate PuTTY shortcut on the desktop, and double click

Access Production Linux Server To access the production server, select Cork Linux 01, click on Load and then Open to establish SSH to the server

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Validate File System Login as root and for password enter Password123! The production volume has already been mounted on the Linux server at /data /data. df -h Ensure that the data which was restored back to Cork contains all data processed while the application was running in New York cd /data ls Great job! File NewYork is there!.

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Summary You have successfully managed to protect a critical application from 2 different disasters. In the first one, you were able to quickly utilize RecoverPoint Local copy to restore the application to a pre-upgrade stage without losing any data. In the second scenario a hardware failure was encountered at the primary site, and by using RecoverPoint Remote copy you were able to select the best point-in-time image to run production at the remote site and then failback once the production server has been repaired. RianPole management could not be happier!

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Lab 3 - Disaster Recovery using RecoverPoint with VMware Site Recovery Manager

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Lab Scenario RainPole has a critical Active Directory and SQL database protected using RecoverPoint. You're using Site Recovery Manager with SRA and the new EMC Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI) to manage the environment. The application team has scheduled a major upgrade of the SQL database, however; they run into an issue during the upgrade that requires them to recover back to a point prior to the start of the upgrade. Given your expertise and the fact that you have RecoverPoint, you feel very confident that you're able to recover the application to any point in time in. In this exercise you will use SRM to conduct a Recovery operation using a specific point-in-time to the Remote site and then perform a failback but first we will review the setup of the Consistency Group and the SRM configuration.

Please Note: As this lab environment is fully virtualized there may be delays in the readiness of Lab 3 when it is first made available. In this instance it is recomended to perform lab 1 or 2 while lab 3 is in a initializing state.

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RecoverPoint Protecting the Organization Against Data Corruption using VMWARE Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Before we get started, let us get familiar with the environment. We will log in to the Unisphere for RecoverPoint and vSphere client

Review Setup In this case, the Consistency Group for the datastore containing both the Active Directory and SQL database virtual machines that you will be recovering has been already created (If you would like to setup a Consistency Group, please refer to Lab#1). Follow the next few steps to get familiar with the Consistency Group setup and access the replicated host. Locate Shortcut to Unisphere for RecoverPoint. If unable to locate shortcut, open a browser and type in: https://192.168.1.100

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Right Click on the shortcut and select Open

Accept Security Certificate warning and proceed to Unisphere for RecoverPoint

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Login to Unisphere for RecoverPoint To log-in to Unisphere for RecoverPoint use the following credentials: User: admin Password: admin Then click on Login to proceed.

Note: If you receive 2 login prompts, please use the same credentials to login (admin/admin)

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Dashboard Note the Cluster map, the environment consists of 2 Clusters connected via IP. New York and Cork. Alerts are summarized in the upper Right pane.

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Navigate to Protection Tab Under the Protection tab, there are 3 wizards, select the Manage Protection Wizard to view configured Consistency Groups

Review existing Consistency Groups To review Consistency Groups that are currently protected with RecoverPoint, select Manage Protection

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List Consistency Groups A list of Consistency Groups (CGs) will be displayed, note the Status and Transfer state of each Consistency Group. For this lab will be working with Lab_3 Disaster Recovery with SRM CG. Notice that it's in an Enabled status and Active transfer state.

Note: Active State indicates that the LUNs are protected in the Consistency Group and point-in-time images exist (and being created) for the Source LUNs at Local and Remote Copies. Active is the desired state that each Enabled CG should be in

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Review Protection Status Take a moment to review the status of the Consistency Group, select it from the list. As an example select Lab_3 Disaster Recovery with SRM CG and view its overall status. Notice the following: 1. Production Copy in Cork 2. Remote Copy in New York

Please note that the software version we're using in this lab was developed early on and since then the GUI has significantly improved. If you notice that the Status tab is not displayed properly; please select a different tab and return to the Status tab

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Confirm Replication Sets If you need to validate which Volumes are being protected by a Consistency Group, select the Replication Sets tab. All protected replication sets will be listed. Note that each Copy is labeled according to the Cluster that it belongs to. Also in the lower part of the screen, the Splitter and array information are displayed for each Copy in that Replication Set.

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Review Group Policy Select the Group Policy tab to review the relevant settings. Notice the following: 1. The External Application of the Consistency Group is set to SRM 2. The Managed by is set to External Application which is in this case SRM These settings indicate the management of Lab_3 Disaster Recovery with SRM has been delegated to SRM.

Connect to VC01 (Cork) Let us connect to vSphere client (VC01) and review the SRM configuration Locate the VMware vSphere Client VC01 shortcut on the desktop and double click.

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Login to VC01 (Cork) Login information is saved but if required use Administrator and Password123!

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Select Hosts and Clusters to review protected virtual machines

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Protected Virtual Machines The datastore which is being replicated in RecoverPoint Lab_3 Disaster Recovery with SRM has two virtual machines on it, the Active Directory and SQL server.

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Site Recovery Let us review the Site Recovery configuration for Lab_3 Disaster Recovery with SRM Consistency Group Under Solutions and Applications, click on the Site Recovery icon

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Connect to SRM If prompted for log in information enter Administrator for Password123!

Confirm Connection to VC01 and VC02 Once connected you will see VC01 and VC02 listed under sites. We're interested in reviewing the Protection Group, click on the Protection Group in the lower left pane

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SRM Protection Group Under the Protection Group, you will see an already defined Protection Group called Cork Virtual Infrastructure, if you select it and then select the Virtual Machines tab, you can see the 2 virtual machines protected by Lab_3 Disaster Recovery with SRM.

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SRM Recovery Plans To review the Recovery Plans, select Recovery Plans from the lower left pane and then select the predefined Scheduled Cork Power down plan. Under the Virtual Machines tab, confirm that both the SQL server and Active Directory are listed and that their Recovery Status is ok. We will return to Recovery Plans when we're ready to execute a Recovery operation.

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VSI Plugin As part of RainPoles disaster Recovery plan they would like to able to failover to a predefined point in time. The new EMC VSI plugin enables SRM to take advantage of RecoverPoint's point-in-time images hence allowing you to perform Recovery operations to any point-in-time snapshot or bookmark as we will see later on in this lab. As part of this process you will first view the plugin and the details it needs to be able to provide this capability. To begin return to the Home screen in vSphere client and this time click on the EMC VSI plugin under the Solutions and Applications

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View VSI Plugin details Click on RecoverPoint Management in the left hand pane. As you can see the details required for the VSI plugin to function correctly have already been added. These include the RecoverPoint and virtual center IP's and their associated credentials.

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SRM Recovery using RecoverPoint and the new EMC VSI The database team is about to begin the upgrade process and they have asked you to take a bookmark of the environment. We first add some text to help us track the status of the database SQL server and then we take a bookmark which can be used in the SRM Recovery. This bookmark is a cautionary step and not needed as the EMC VSI plugin will give you access to all point-in-time images. However, taking a bookmark will help you locate the exact point-in-time that you need to recover to in case anything goes wrong during the upgrade. Locate a shortcut to Putty on the desktop, we will use it later on to access the command line for RecoverPoint and create a bookmark.

Access the SQL Server in Cork We will first RDP into the production SQL server(shown below) using mRemote and then create some data to indicate a pre-upgrade point-in-time. We will then take a RecoverPoint bookmark which will be used later on in the EMC VSI and SRM Recovery

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Open mRemote to establish an RDP session to SQL Server in Cork Click on the Start button and click mRemote on the taskbar.

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Log in to the source SQL Server Double click on SQL Server in the connections pane, this will launch an RDP session to the source SQL server.

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Locate a File on the Desktop You should see a file called SQL status status, double click on it to view it

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Add pre-upgrade text A blank file will open up. To help us track the status of the data, let us append Pre-Upgrade to the file.

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Save the File Click on File and Save to save the file. Minimize the mremote console, we will need it later on to add corrupted data to the SQL database

Locate Putty In order to take a bookmark of the Lab_3 Disaster Recovery with SRM Consistency Group, we will use the RecoverPoint CLI. Locate a shortcut to Putty on the desktop

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Select RecoverPoint Saved Session You will find saved sessions, select the Cork RecoverPoint mgmt session and click on Open to access RecoverPoint CLI

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Log in to RecoverPoint CLI When prompted for username and Password, enter admin admin/admin admin

Create a Pre-Upgrade Bookmark A bookmark is simply a labeled point-in-time image. Typically bookmarks are taken before upgrades, patches, data structure changes and during quiesced state of the application. Every point-in-time image is Crash-Consistent (please note that due to the version of code used in building the lab, the Crash-Consistent is listed as Unknown). Bookmarks can be either crash-consistent if taken while the application is running or Application-Consistent if taken while the application is quiesced. In this scenario, you have worked with the database team who're planning a major data restructure and they have asked you to take a bookmark before they start their data restructure process. To take a bookmark, execute the following command: bookmark_image

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You will then be asked to specify a Consistency Group for the bookmark, enter Lab_3 Disaster Recovery with SRM. Please note that you can tab and the CLI will auto-complete the name of the Consistency Group Enter a name for the bookmark, type Before_Upgrade Select default policy for journal consolidation which is always. Journal Consolidation policies are user defined policies that allow for longer retention of images without requiring additional journal space. Assuming the Bookmark was taken while the application was online, choose Crash-Consistent (Unknown) and press Enter to continue. Validate that the bookmark_image command was successful; the system should display Request for bookmark registered successfully message indicating successful execution of the command.

Validate Bookmark If you would like to validate that the bookmark has been created in the copy journal. You can execute the get_images command Enter Lab_3 Disaster Recovery with SRM for the group name Then specify a copy name New York CRR

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Leave the default for the remaining 3 questions and the list of available images will be displayed. Validate that the bookmark we just created Before_Upgrade is there.

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Data Corruption at Production After you have taken the bookmark, the database upgrade starts but unfortunately the Database Administrator updates the wrong table causing the application to crash. RainPole management decides that they need to failover to the remote site and use a point in time just before the upgrade had started. Fortunately, RainPole has protected this database with RecoverPoint and have implemented Site Recovery Manager with the new EMC VSI which enables SRM to access any available image. Now, to simulate the data corruption, return to the SQL server RDP session in mremote. Let's add some text to the file named SQL Status to indicate data corruption. Let us simply add: Wrong Data and then make sure to save the file You might want to close and reopen the file to make sure the Wrong Data text has been saved. Now the application is down and we need to rollback to a pre-upgrade state.

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Let's go back to vCenter VC01 Let's go back to vCenter VC01 and if we select the SQL Server virtual machine and then go to the EMC VSI tab, you will see the Consistency Group Lab_3 Disaster Recovery with SRM and all available images. Search for the bookmark that you created before the upgrade Before Upgrade

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Choose Bookmark and Apply it Select the Before_Upgrade bookmark and click Apply Apply. You will see a pop-up window asking you to confirm your selection, click OK to proceed and apply the bookmark.

Validate PiT has been applied Validate that the selected Point-in-time has been applied in the EMC VSI tab

Begin the Recovery Process At this point, the usual SRM Recovery can be executed, once an image has been enabled in the failover process, it will be the bookmark you selected using the VSI plugin. In vCenter, go to the Home screen

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Under Solutions and Applications click on Site Recovery

Connect to SRM If prompted for log in information enter Administrator for Password123!

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SRM Recovery Plan To execute the Recovery Plan, select Recovery Plans from the lower left pane and then select the predefined Scheduled Cork Power down plan. Under the Summary tab, confirm that both the Protected Site and the Recovery Site. The current Protected Site (Production) is VC01 and the Recover Site (remote) is VC02. When ready, click on Recovery at the top right corner.

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Begin Execution of the Recovery Plan You will receive a notification warning ask you to confirm the consequences of the failover. Take a moment to read the message and then tick the checkbox and click Next to proceed.

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Review Summary of Recovery Taks A summary page of the Recovery task will be summarized. Take a moment to review it and then click on Start to initiate the failover process

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Recovery In Progress Review that under the Summary tab, a message stating Recover In Progress will indicate that the failover process has been initiated successfully.

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Monitor Recovery Steps You can also switch to the Recovery Steps tab to monitor the recovery plan execution. You will see a list of tasks indicating the steps which are being executed by the SRM and RecoverPoint system. Virtual machines at the current production site will be powered down, access to an image will be enabled at the remote site and then virtual machines will be enabled at the remote site.

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Recovery Plan has been executed You should see all Recovery Steps completed successfully. Both Virtual Machines SQL server and Active Directory are currently running on remote site.

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History Tab If some of the steps went by too fast and you would like to review a log of the Recovery Plan steps, click on the History tab and then click on View as shown below

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Review Recovery Reports A browser window will open and display a report of the Recovery Plan which you just executed. Take a moment to review the steps.

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Connect to VC02 (New York) We now want to validate that the bookmark (point-in-time) image we enabled in New York contains the proper data without the corruption. Let us connect to vSphere client (VC02) and review the SRM configuration Locate the VMware vSphere Client VC02 shortcut on the desktop and double click.

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Login to VC02 (New York) Login information is saved but if required use Administrator and Password123!

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Open mRemote to establish and RDP session to SQL Server in New York Open mRemote and double click SQL Server to establish and RDP session.

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Locate a File on the Desktop You should see a file called SQL status status, double click on it to view it Double click on the file to open it and see its content

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Validate Data When the SQL status file opens it should the original text Pre-Upgrade without the corrupted data Wrong Data Data. Perfect! RecoverPoint along with the new EMC VSI allowed you roll-back the application to pre-corruption point.

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Reprotect Applications Since the Virtual Machines are running at the Remote site we need to execute the Reprotect plan. The Reprotect Plan will enable replication from the current active site New York (VC02) back to Cork (VC01). Please note that while this step is essential, it's non-disruptive to the applications that are currently running at the New York (VC02) site. Click on Reprotect

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Reprotect Confirmation A warning window will appear, tick the checkbox confirming that you understand the steps which will be performed and then click Next to proceed

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Reprotect Summary Review a summary of the Reprotect plan and click Start to enable replication from the Cork site to the New York site.

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Review Reprotect Steps Monitor the reprotect steps until they're complete. The completion of this step indicates that replication has been enabled from New York back to Cork.

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Review Status in Unisphere for RecoverPoint At this point we're done with the Recovery and Reprotect tasks. Great job! Go back to Unisphere for RecoverPoint and review the status of the Consistency Group Lab_3 Disaster Recovery with SRM SRM. You will notice that the production site is not set to New York and the replica copy is set to Cork and that the link is in Active state. Application teams as well as RainPole management are thrilled that once again RecoverPoint saved the organization from data loss and enabled them to achieve the desirable RPO in a swift RTO!

Failback To Original Production Site (Cork) After successfully recovering from corruption using RecoverPoint with the new EMC VSI, RainPole management has scheduled a window to failover its critical applications that run on SQL server and Active Directory back to the Cork site. This time we will use the latest point-in-time image, so there is no need to apply a PiT using the EMC VSI. But first, let us add some data to the SQL Status file at the current active site in New York. Let us go back to the SQL server RDP session we have open and append I was running in New York! to the file.

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Make sure you save the file, it might be a good idea to close the file and reopen it to make sure the text has been saved.

Connect to VC02 (New York) Locate the VMware vSphere Client VC02 shortcut on the desktop and double click.

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Login to VC02 (New York) Login information is saved but if required use Administrator and Password123!

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Begin the Recovery Process Since we want to use the latest point-in-timme image, we can use Site Recovery without needing to select and apply a bookmark using the EMC VSI. In vCetner, go to the Home screen Under Solutions and Applications click on Site Recovery

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Connect to SRM If prompted for log in information enter Administrator for Password123!

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SRM Recovery Plan To execute the Recovery Plan, select Recovery Plans from the lower left pane and then select the predefined Scheduled Cork Power down plan. Under the Summary tab, confirm that both the Protected Site and the Recovery Site. The current Protected Site (Production) is VC02 and the Recover Site (remote) is VC01. When ready, click on Recovery to begin the fail-back process

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Begin Execution of the Recovery Plan You will receive a notification warning ask you to confirm the steps that you want to execute. Take a moment to read the message and then check the checkbox and click Next to proceed.

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Review Summary of Recovery Tasks A summary page of the Recovery task will be summarized. Take a moment to review it and then click on Start to initiate the failover process

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Recovery In Progress Review that under the Summary tab, a message stating Recover In Progress will indicate that the Recovery process has been initiated successfully.

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Monitor Recovery Steps You can also switch to the Recovery Steps tab to monitor the recovery plan execution. You will see a list of tasks indicating the steps which are being executed by the SRM and RecoverPoint system. Virtual machines at the current production site will be powered down, access to an image will be enabled at the remote site and then virtual machines will be enabled at the remote site.

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Recovery Plan has been executed You should see all Recovery Steps complete successfully. Both Virtual Machines SQL server and Active Directory are currently running on Cork site.

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History Tab If some of the steps went by too fast and you would like to review a log of the Recovery Plan steps, click on the History tab and then click on View as shown below

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Review Recovery Reports A browser window will open and display a report of the Recovery Plan which you just executed. Take a moment to review the steps.

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Connect to VC01 (Cork) Let us connect to vSphere client (VC01) and review the SRM configuration Locate the VMware vSphere Client VC01 shortcut on the desktop and double click.

Login to VC01 (Cork) Login information is saved but if required use Administrator and Password123!

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Open mRemote to view status of SQL server Once again double click on SQL server within mRemote to establish an RDP session.

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Locate a File on the Desktop You should see a file called SQL status status, double click on it to view it

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Validate Data When the SQL status file opens it should contain the text we've added earlier indicating that the fail-back captured the data which processed while the application was running at the New York site. The file should contain: Pre-Upgrade I was running in New York! Perfect! RecoverPoint along with the new EMC VSI allowed you roll-back the application to pre-corruption point.

Reprotect Applications Since the Virtual Machines are running at the Cork site we still need to execute the Reprotect plan.

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The Reprotect Plan will enable replication from the current active site Cork (VC01) back to New York (VC02). Please note that while this step is essential, it's non-disruptive to the applications that are currently running at the Cork (VC01) site. Return to the VC02 vSphere client where you were executing the Recovery paln and under the Summary tab, click on Reprotect

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Reprotect Confirmation A warning window will appear, tick the checkbox confirming that you understand the steps which will be performed and then click Next to proceed

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Reprotect Summary Review a summary of the Reprotect plan and click Start to enable replication from the Cork site to the New York site.

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Review Status in Unisphere for RecoverPoint At this point we're done with the Recovery and Reprotect tasks. Great job! Go back to Unisphere for RecoverPoint and review the status of the Consistency Group Lab_3 Disaster Recovery with SRM SRM. You will notice that the production site is not set to Cork and the replica copy site is set to New York and that the link is in Active state.

Summary You have successfully managed to protect a critical application from a major disaster. You performed a SRM Recovery using the new EMC VSI which enabled you to access any point-in-time image. You also utilized the tight integration between RecoverPoint and VMware to meet all of RainPole's business needs. RianPole management could not be happier!

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Conclusion As you've seen RainPole's decision to purchase RecoverPoint has protected the organization from multiple failure scenarios. Whether it's data corruption, hardware failures or operational recovery, RecoverPoint has enabled the organization to achieve their desired RPO and RTO and meet their Service Level Agreements. In addition to great integration with VMWARE SRM, RecoverPoint 4.0 enables SRM to access any point-in-time image through its new EMC VSI. RecoverPoint 4.0 supports synchronous replication over FC or IP and provides that ability through its Multi-Site feature to replicate applications up to 4 Remote sites. RecoverPoint 4.0 also allows RainPole to deploy a virtual edition of the appliance, vRPA that can run on an ESXi hypervisor. The new Unisphere for RecoerPoint simplifies management tasks through its build-in wizards and provide the same look and feel of other EMC products.The scale, performance and features of RecoverPoint provides an enterprise class data protection solution that's easy to integrate and manage.

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