Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines: A simple, efficient operational and disaster recovery solution for virtualized applications in VMware environments. It delivers local and remote hypervisor-based replication, continuous data protection for per-VM recovery to any point in time, and built-in automated disaster recovery orchestration.•Disaster Recovery and Operational Recovery with VM-level granularity
- Integrated Management & Orchestration with VMware’s vCenter GUI
- Test, failover, failback and production recovery to any point-in-time per VM
- Software Only – Hypervisor based replication solution
- Storage agnostic
- Continuous Data Protection (CDP) and/or Continuous Remote Replication (CRR)
Prerequisites
- Network Preparation
The RecoverPoint for VMs system requires these IP addresses:
- Cluster management IP address for each vRPA cluster
- An IP address for each vRPA network adapter depends on the selected Network topology (Two network adapters (the default and recommended configuration))
- An IP address for each VMkernel port
- Preparing the VMware environment
For the most up-to-date information on supported VMware vCenter and vSphere versions, refer to the Simple Support Matrix
- Preparing the storage
The total storage capacity that is required includes:
Storage for production VMs at the production site
Storage for replica VMs at the replica site
Storage for journal VMDKs
35 GB for each vRPA in the RecoverPoint for VMs system
A persistent scratch location on the ESXi host is required for storing splitter configuration information. The scratch location (/scratch/log) requires at least 500 MB of free storage space on a permanently available persistent storage device.
Note: Each ESXi host should have its own dedicated datastore for the scratch directory.
Next post will move on RP4VMs appliances deployment!
Contents of the Post
Deploying RP4VMs Appliances
Installing RP4VMs Cluster
Connecting RP4VMs Clusters
Cluster Configurations
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