1. Case study Active –Active DC

2. EMC VPLEX part of solution Working with a partner
Introduction
Active-Active DC
EMC VPLEX part of solution
Working with a partner
Agenda

3. EMC VPLEX part of solution Working with a partner
Introduction
Active-Active DC
EMC VPLEX part of solution
Working with a partner
Agenda

4. Active-Passive Data Centers
Site A - Active
Site B - Passive
Active-Passive Site
Data on disaster recovery site is used on failure
Outage to move applications
Traditional two-site data center configurations create an active-passive architecture where the second site sits idle and resources are not used. This is common for traditional disaster recovery solutions today. This topology requires the tedious data movement process to bring systems down, reconcile, and restart them.
Problems
Site B is idle
Process is lengthy
Restart is required
Active-Passive Data Centers

5. New Levels of Business Continuity
Application continues with no disruption (Zero Downtime)
Continuous Availability
Active-Active Data Centers
High Availability
In-data-center Clusters for Application Protection
Continuous Data Protection
Operational Recovery to Any Point in Time
Disaster Recovery
Tape Backup and Replication

6. The “first” drawing

7. EMC VPLEX part of solution Working with a partner
Introduction
Active-Active DC
EMC VPLEX part of solution
Working with a partner
Agenda

8. VPLEX Metro Use Cases AVAILABILITY MOBILITY COLLABORATION
Zero RPO/RTO
Eliminate storage operations from failover
Federated
AccessAnywhere
Maintain availability and non-stop access by mirroring across locations
MOBILITY
Active-active data centers
Disaster avoidance
Data center migration
Workload rebalancing
Cluster A
Cluster B
Move and relocate VMs, applications, and data over distance
COLLABORATION
Instant and simultaneous data access over distance
Streamline workflows
Enable concurrent read/write access to data across locations
Federated
AccessAnywhere
Federated
AccessAnywhere
VPLEX Metro Use Cases

9. VPLEX Active-Active Data Access
Location A
Location B
Stretched Cluster
Cluster Servers
Cluster Servers
Physical volumes are virtualized
Virtual volumes are distributed across arrays
Hosts access virtual volumes which access both physical arrays simultaneously
Creating an Active-Active Environment
Active/Active allows you to stretch server clusters over distance
VPLEX Distributed Virtual Volume A
VPLEX Distributed Virtual Volume B
VPLEX
VOL A
VPLEX
VOL B
VOL A
VOL B
VOL A
VOL B
Active
Active
Enabled by Distributed Virtual Volumes
VPLEX Active-Active Data Access

10. Bringing Mobility and Availability to VMware Environments
Federated AccessAnywhere
Witness VM
Combining VMware HA / vMotion with VPLEX Metro
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VPLEX works together with VMware to have Virtual Volumes restarted on a secondary site should anything happen to the main site.
VPLEX also supports nondisruptive vMotion of Virtual Machines between sites.
VPLEX and VMware

11. VPLEX and Recover point
VPLEX Geo
Across Data Centers asynchronous (50ms) distances
VPLEX Metro
Across Data Centers synchronous (5ms) distances
VPLEX Local
Within a data center
RecoverPoint
Operational recovery and 3rd site protection for extended distances
VPLEX and Recover point

12. VPLEX Family Product Matrix
Local
Metro
Geo
Mobility
Within a data center
Synchronous: 5 ms round-trip time
Asynchronous: 50 ms round-trip time
Availability
High availability
VPLEX Witness support
Cross-cluster connected configuration
VPLEX offers mobility, availability, and collaboration within and between data centers at synchronous and asynchronous distances. This matrix will help you find the VPLEX family product that is right for you.
VPLEX RecoverPoint Splitter
Collaboration
Between two sites
VPLEX Family Product Matrix

13. Active-Active Failover Bi-directional Failover
Active-Passive
Failover
Active-Active Failover
Bi-directional Failover
Shared Recovery Sites
Production
Production
Production
Recovery
Recovery
Production
Dedicated resources for recovery
Leverage recovery infrastructure for test/dev
Production applications at both sites
Each site acts as the recovery site for the other
Many-to-one failover
Useful for Remote Office / Branch Office
DR Topologies
Site Recovery Manager can be used in a number of different failover scenarios:
Active-Passive: Site Recovery Manager absolutely supports the traditional active-passive DR scenario, where a production site running applications is recovered at a second site that is idle until failover is required. Although the most common configuration, this scenario also means that you are paying a lot of money for a DR site that is idle most of the time.
Active-Active: To make better use of the recovery site, Site Recovery Manager also enables you to leverage your recovery site for other workloads when you aren’t using it for DR. Site Recovery Manager can be configured to automatically shutdown or suspend VMs at the recovery site as part of the failover process so that you can easily free up compute capacity for the workloads being recovered.
Bidirectional: Site Recovery Manager can also provide bidirectional failover protection so that you can run active production workloads at both sites and failover to the other site in either direction. The spare capacity at the other site will be used to run the VMs that are failed over.
Shared Recovery Sites: Although less common, some of our customers need to be able to failover within a given “site” or campus, for example when a storage array failure occurs or when building maintenance forces you to move workloads to a different campus building. These customers are leveraging Site Recovery Manager to perform these failovers.

14. EMC VPLEX part of solution Working with a partner
Introduction
Active-Active DC
EMC VPLEX part of solution
Working with a partner
Agenda

15. Functional/technical design Hardware/software sizing
The design sessions:
EMC, Cisco, VMware
Functional/technical design
Hardware/software sizing
Working with a partner

16. Solving WAN Connection question: Connectivity Latency Applications
Working with a partner