Automating Disaster Recovery with vCloud Availability … · Bob Webster Onni Rautanen LHC1746BE...

Bob WebsterOnni Rautanen

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Automating Disaster Recovery with vCloud Availability for vCloud Director and vRealize Orchestrator

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Agenda Slide

1 Tieto and demand for DR

2 vCloud Availability

3 Automating vCloud Availability

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Tieto is the leading Nordic software

and services company

1968

Projects annually

Employing

3000

1.5

Serving Nordic clients since

900Around

customers

Turnover of approximately

14 000experts globally,in close to

20 countries

Servingcustomers in over

85

€ billion

countries worldwide

Investments in technology

and services more than

130€ million*per year

*incl. capital expenditure and operational costs

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Services to accelerate customer value

BUILD

RUN

DESIGN

ADVICE

CUSTOMER

Run the extra mile

for customer!

Be accountable for

customer value!

Consulting

services

Business

process

services

Application

services

Infrastructure

services

Business

application

platforms

OUTSOURCING

End user

services



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Tieto OneCloud Combining leading public clouds (AWS and Azure) and Tieto private cloud services and onsite services in one solution, all managed by cloud experts at Tieto

Onsite Clouds

Tieto OneCloud

Private Clouds

Private Cloud services

hosted by Tieto in

Sweden, Finland and

Norway

Public Clouds

Public Cloud services

from Amazon Web Services

and Microsoft Azure

Customer onsite cloud

services managed by Tieto

Unified customer experience

One solution, One invoice, Consolidated reporting

Open API’s

IaaS PaaS SaaS

Leading cloud

technologies

Leading public

cloud providers



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Why to do disaster recovery (or not)

Ensure business continuity

• Core reason for IT in general is to enable the business

• Disaster recovery is a way to ensure it’s continuity in case of unexpected events

Balance risk and cost

• When single portion of the IT solution is deemed non critical

• Impact of the disaster is evaluated to be less than the investment required to enable disaster recovery

• > it’s normal business to balance in the direction of taking the risk

• When the cost and complexity of enabling disaster recovery is lowered, it will increase that amount of implementations

– > Increased business value and risk mitigation

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Implementing disaster recovery readiness is easy, but…

• Requires segregated infrastructure and facilities

• Straight forward and feasible in large multi datacenter deliveries ...

• .. But financially very ineffective in smaller local deployments

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Why vCloud availability

• Removes direct requirement for dedicated facilities and capacity

• All capacity for disaster recovery can be obtained pay-as-you-go, on demand

• Standardized deployment model simplifies and lowers the cost of enablement

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Disaster recovery is not just for disasters

• Standardized and automated process simplified

– Ensure that virtual machines deployed in local solution are available in central cloud service

• From end result point of view the process is the same as migrating servers from local to cloud or in lifecycle management of a platform

• Offers reusability for the process

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Agenda Slide




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vCloud Availability for vCloud Director

1Dependent on available bandwidth

• Warm standby capacity on:

• VMware Cloud Service Provider

• vCloud Director add on Service for DR

• Self-service protection, failover and failback workflows per VM

• A multi-tenant implementation of vSphere replication on vCloud Director

• 15 min1 – 24 hr. recovery point objective (RPO)

• Initial data seeding by shipping a disk

Simple and secure asynchronous replication and failover for vSphere

What is it?

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SITE A(PRIMARY)

vCLOUD AIR , SITE B(RECOVERY)

FAILBACK

FAILOVER

DR

InstancevSphere Replication

Provider Site



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On Premises and Cloud Web Interfaces

• On premises:Managed through vCenter Web Client

• In the Cloud:Managed using vCloud Availability Portal

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DR Automation Feature Comparison

Feature SRM vCloud

Availability

Async Host Based Replication Yes Yes

Multi-Tenant No Yes

On demand Failover Tests Yes Yes

Protect Single Virtual Machines Yes Yes

Protect Group of Virtual Machines Yes No *

Ordered Recovery Yes No *

Set IP on Recovered VMs Yes No *

Vcloud Availability natively delivers a subset of SRM features.

* Possible with vRealize Orchestrator



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Agenda Slide




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vRealize Orchestrator can extend and automate vCloud Availability

vRealize Orchestrator can add additional use cases such as:

• Protect and Recover groups of VMs.

• Order VM recovery.

• Initiate DR workflows using REST calls.

• Customize failed over VM network settings.

• Customize the target failover environment.

• Custom workflows you can develop



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vRealize Orchestrator

• Included with VMware vRealize Automation and as standalone appliance to enable automation

• Makes IT operations faster and less error-prone by facilitating the automation of IT processes

• Facilitates the development of workflows

• Provides a graphical integrated development environment (IDE)

• Enables workflows to be exported and imported through packages

• Provides a workflow engine

• Offers multiple ways to run workflows

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Integrate | Automate | Orchestrate



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vRO Workflow Designer

• Java Client

• Supports

– Inventory Management

– Creation and execution of workflows.

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vRO vSphere Web Client Extension

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• Add on to vSphere Web Client

• Supports execution of workflows.



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Deployment Options:Cloud deployment managed by Tenant

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Test Network

Corp/Recovery

Network

EDGE GATEWAY

On-Premises Data Center

PROTECTED WORKLOADS

Domain Network

AD DNS

Corp NetworkREPLICATION

vCD

VM VM

vRO

• Installed by Tenant in Tenant virtual data center.

• Supports DR automationagainst both Cloud andOn Premises Data Center.

• Authentication against both tenantvCenter and vCloud director Organization



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Deployment Options:Cloud deployment managed by provider

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EDGE GATEWAY

Test Network

Corp/Recovery

Network

EDGE GATEWAY


PROTECTED WORKLOADS

Domain Network

AD DNS

vRO

Corp Network

REPLICATION

vCD

VMVM

• Installed and managed by Service provider in providervirtual data center.


• Supports DR automationagainst both Cloud andOn Premises Data Center.



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Deployment Options:Dual deployment

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PROTECTED WORKLOADS

Domain Network

AD DNS

Corp Network

REPLICATIONvRO

Test Network

Corp/Recovery

Network

EDGE GATEWAY

vCD

VM VM

vRO

• Installed in both locations.

• Local orchestrator can be usedfor DR and general workflows.


• Synchronize workflows usingImport / Export or configure as Master Slave



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Agenda Slide




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Install required plugins

• Workflows use plugins tocommunicate with external APIs

• One time installation ofrequired vRealize Orchestratorplugins

• Download pluginsfrom https://my.vmware.com

• Install through vRealize Orchestrator control center

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Plugin Usage with vCAV

vSphere Replication Plugin Primary plugin used for vCAV DR

workflows.

vCloud Director Plugin

(Optional)

Used to configure the vCloud Director

cloud target environment and Virtual

Machines after failover

REST Plugin

(Optional)

Used to connect to the vCAV REST API.

Provides access to more replication

information that vSphere replication

plugin.



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https://my.vmware.com/


Orchestrator Workflows

• Configuration workflows add endpoints to OrchestratorInventory

• Workflows perform automation against inventory endpoints

• Two types of vCAV related workflows:

– On-Premises Target workflows:

• target the on premises vCenter and

– Cloud target workflows

• Target vCloud Director

• Many sample workflows included with vSphere Replication Plugin

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Types of workflows for vCloud Availability


REPLICATION

Cloud

Orchestrator

Plu

gin

s

vSphere Replication

vCloud Director

REST



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VM Protection Workflow(vSphere Replication Plugin)

• Workflow included with vSphere Replication Plugin

• Input parameter types

– VR:Site(vSphere Replication Server on-premises Site)

– VR:CloudVdcRemoteSite(vSphere Replication Server on Cloud Site retrieved / registered with on-premises vSphere replication server)

• Can be a foundation of reuse for other plugins.

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Configure Replication to Cloud



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vSphere Replication Plugin ‘Recovery to Cloud’ Workflows

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Run Planned Migration to Cloud Migrate a replicated virtual machine to the Cloud.

Run Real Recovery to Cloud * Recover a replicated virtual machine at the Cloud

site.

Run Test Cleanup at the Cloud Site * Clean up test recovery results for a replication to

cloud.

Run Test Cleanup to Cloud Cleanup test recovery results for a replication to

the Cloud.

Run Test Recovery at the Cloud Site * Run a test recovery for a replication to the Cloud

at the cloud site. *

Run Test Recovery to Cloud Run a test recovery for a replication to the Cloud.

* Workflows target the cloud site and do not require access to an on-premises site.



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Run Recovery to Cloud(vSphere Replication Plugin)

• Failover of protected VM to cloud.

• VM previously replicated / protected.

• Workflow connects to Cloud site, does not require access to on-premises vSphere replication appliance.

• Input Type

– VR:VcToCloudTargetGroup(vSphere Replication Server on Cloud Site)

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Run Real Recovery to Cloud



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Automating vCloud Availability Custom Automations



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Custom AutomationProtect / Failover Grouped VMs

• Workflow 1: Create a DR Plan

– Creates list of protected VMs at Cloud Site

– Specify start order by group

– Saves List in Orchestrator DB

• Workflow 2: Process DR Plan

– Retrieves plan by name

– Performs specified operation against VMs observing groups and order

Execute from vRO Client or REST Client.Single REST call to recover groups of VMs

Tenant DC connection not required

REST based, no reliance on vSphere Replication plugn

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Process DR Plan

Create DR Plan



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Demo

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Post Failover Automation



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Modify Failover environment(vCloud Director Plugin)

• Workflows can be created to modify the target failover environment.

For Example

– Modify Load Balancers

– Flush DNS Cache

• Workflows can also be created to modify the vCloud director vApp, VM or virtual data center after failover.

• Changes must be made post failover, changes made to the vApp before failover will be overwritten by replication process.

• Changes to the placeholder vApp containing the protected VM require the vApp name.

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PROTECTED WORKLOADS

Corp Network

REPLICATION

Cloud

Corp/Recovery

Network

vCDVirtual Data Center

Orchestrator

Plu

gin

s

vSphere Replication

vCloud Director

REST

VM

VM



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Custom IP AutomationChange VM IP after failover

• vCloud Availability will place VMs in specified target network, but natively does not modify the IP

• A custom workflow can re-IP the VM,

– REST Plugin retrieves placeholder vApp name.

– vCD plugin modifies vApp and VM IP

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PROTECTED WORKLOADS

Corp Network

REPLICATION

Cloud

Corp/Recovery

Network

vSphere

Replication

Appliance vCDVirtual Data Center

Orchestrator

Plu

gin

s

vSphere Replication

vCloud Director

REST

vAPP:

TestVM-6b08a004-599b-4e1d-8cc6-80db72539689

TestVM

TestVM

1. REST call to retrieve vApp name

2. vCD call to perform modify IP on VMs in the vApp



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Additional Resources:

• White Paper:

• Using VMware vRealize¨Orchestrator™ withVMware vCloud¨ Availability for vCloud Director¨

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• White Paper:

• vRealize Orchestrator Coding Design Guide

• Samples:

• Orchestrator – vCloud Availability Examples on GitHub:



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