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VSPEX IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE
SILVER PEAK ACCELERATION WITH EMC VSPEX PRIVATE CLOUD WITH RECOVERPOINT FOR VMWARE VSPHERE
Silver Peak
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This Implementation Guide describes the deployment of Silver Peak replication acceleration with EMC VSPEX Private Cloud with RecoverPoint for VMware vSphere.
April, 2014
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Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction 6 Purpose of this guide ................................................................................... 6 Business value ............................................................................................ 6 Scope ........................................................................................................ 7 Audience.................................................................................................... 7 Terminology ............................................................................................... 7 Solution tested ........................................................................................... 7
Chapter 2 Solution Architecture Overview 8 Solution Overview ....................................................................................... 8 Silver Peak VXOA Overview .......................................................................... 8
Architecture .......................................................................................... 8 Sizing ................................................................................................... 9 Obtaining Silver Peak Software ............................................................... 10 When Should Silver Peak be Deployed with RecoverPoint ............................ 10
Chapter 3 Implementation Process Overview 11 Before You Begin ....................................................................................... 11
Chapter 4 Installation and Configuration 12 Silver Peak VRX Installation ......................................................................... 12
Deploy the Velocity Replication Accelerator OVF template ........................... 12 Establish Connectivity to the Virtual Appliance ........................................... 14 Complete the Appliance Manager Initial Configuration Wizard ...................... 15
Silver Peak Best Practices ............................................................................ 17 Encryption ........................................................................................... 17 Correcting Loss ..................................................................................... 17
RecoverPoint Configuration .......................................................................... 18 Add a New Default Gateway .................................................................... 18
Chapter 5 Validating Silver Peak Operation 20 Measuring Performance with Silver Peak ........................................................ 20
Silver Peak Performance ......................................................................... 20
Chapter 6 Testing and Validation 21 Silver Peak Testing and Validation with RecoverPoint ....................................... 21
Test Methodology .................................................................................. 21 Test Suite Overview .............................................................................. 21
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vRPA Test Results ................................................................................. 21 RPA Test Results ................................................................................... 23 RecoverPoint Throughput across Multiple Latencies .................................... 24
Appendix A USEFUL LINKS 25
Appendix B IP Configuration Worksheet 26
Figures Figure 1. RecoverPoint and Silver Peak Solution Overview .............................. 8 Figure 2. Silver Peak VXOA Architecture ...................................................... 9 Figure 3. VMware vSphere client ................................................................ 12 Figure 4. Adding storage for the Silver Peak virtual machine .......................... 13 Figure 5. Selecting storage type ................................................................ 13 Figure 6. Mapping network to network adapter ............................................ 13 Figure 7. Finish Silver Peak OVF deployment ............................................... 14 Figure 8. Power on Silver Peak virtual machine ............................................ 14 Figure 9. Silver Peak console .................................................................... 15 Figure 10. Silver Peak DHCP ....................................................................... 15 Figure 11. Silver Peak static IP address ........................................................ 15 Figure 12. Silver Peak appliance manager login ............................................. 16 Figure 13. Silver Peak configuration wizard ................................................... 16 Figure 14. Silver Peak Modify Tunnel Window ................................................ 17 Figure 15. Silver Peak WAN Loss % Chart ..................................................... 17 Figure 16. Accelerated Data Flow Diagram .................................................... 18 Figure 17. RecoverPoint login ...................................................................... 19 Figure 18. RecoverPoint Gateway Configuration ............................................. 19 Figure 19. RecoverPoint IP Version .............................................................. 19 Figure 20. Confirm RecoverPoint New Gateway .............................................. 19 Figure 21. Silver Peak Flow Performance ...................................................... 20 Figure 22. Silver Peak Throughput Chart ...................................................... 20 Figure 23. vRPA/VRX-4 Test Environment ..................................................... 22 Figure 24. vRPA Test Results with 0.1% Loss ................................................ 22 Figure 25. vRPA Test Results with 1% Loss ................................................... 22 Figure 26. RPA/VRX-8 Test Environment....................................................... 23 Figure 27. RPA Test Results with 0.1% Loss .................................................. 23 Figure 28. RPA Test Results with 1% Loss ..................................................... 24 Figure 29. RPA Throughput across Multiple Latencies ...................................... 24
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Tables Table 1. Terminology ............................................................................... 7 Table 2. Silver Peak Replication Accelerator Models ...................................... 9
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Chapter 1 Introduction
Purpose of this guide This document provides detailed configuration steps and best practices for deploying Silver Peak replication acceleration software with EMC RecoverPoint for data protection across any network. This document builds on the VSPEX Proven Architecture for RecoverPoint, EMC document #H12298. Test and validation results are also included in Chapter 6.
Business value EMC RecoverPoint is a data protection solution that provides local, and remote continuous data protection, allowing for any point-in-time data recovery. In the event of data loss, or corruption, data can be recovered across arrays and applications to a consistent state. This allows applications to be quickly restarted, resulting in shorter downtime.
The VSPEX Private Cloud solution for VMware vSphere with EMC VNX and EMC RecoverPoint is a highly scalable, building block solution that has been validated for configurations up thousands of virtual machines.
While EMC RecoverPoint provides an efficient replication solution, it is subject to limitations created by the Wide Area Network (WAN). When the WAN connecting the two replication units has latency, packet loss or out-of-order, or limited bandwidth, replication throughput can be adversely affected causing missed Recovery Point Objectives and potentially failed replication. Either of these expose the business to additional risk in the event or a recovery to the replica.
Silver Peak develops data center class replication acceleration software that fixes the problems that exist on the WAN, enabling more data to be replicated, in less time, and over longer distances. Silver Peak’s Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture (VXOA) can be deployed as virtual software (VX or VRX) on any hypervisor or as a hardware appliance (NX). VXOA solves WAN problems by deduplicating and compressing replication traffic, repairing dropped and out-of-order packets, and overcoming the effects of latency.
When combined with VSPEX for RecoverPoint, Silver Peak software enables customers to meet their RPOs regardless of WAN bandwidth, latency, or quality.
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Scope This guide is limited to the installation and configuration of the Silver Peak software, and changes that need to be made to a functioning RecoverPoint environment. This document does not cover the installation or initial configuration of RecoverPoint. For more information on deploying RecoverPoint please see the EMC VSPEX with EMC RecoverPoint for VMware vSphere 5.5 Design and Implementation Guide.
Audience This document is intended for storage architects, IT engineers, storage administrators, professional services engineers, virtual administrators, and SAN administrators.
Terminology This Implementation Guide includes the following terminology.
Table 1. Terminology
Term Description
RPO Recovery Point Objective
vRPA Virtual RecoverPoint Appliance
RPA RecoverPoint Appliance
VXOA Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture
VRX Velocity Replication Accelerator
FEC Forward Error Correction
LAN Local Area Network
WAN Wide Area Network
CRR RecoverPoint Continuous Remote Replication
Solution tested Silver Peak and EMC tested a combination of Silver Peak VRX replication acceleration software with physical and virtual RecoverPoint appliances replicating across simulated WAN connections with varying amounts of packet loss and latency. For more information on the test environment see Appendix A.
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Chapter 2 Solution Architecture Overview
Solution Overview Silver Peak software is deployed as a virtual machine on the LAN. While Silver Peak software supports deployment across several hypervisors, this document focuses on VMware. When deployed with RecoverPoint, Silver Peak uses a single IP address and network connection to accelerate RecoverPoint replication, CRR. For this deployment no network changes need to be made, as all redirection will be performed by the RecoverPoint appliance.
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Figure 1. RecoverPoint and Silver Peak Solution Overview
Silver Peak VXOA Overview
Silver Peak provides a robust WAN optimization solution that addresses the bandwidth, latency, and packet loss issues that are common to most enterprise environments. Silver Peak's optimization techniques are all performed in real-time and primarily at the network (IP) layer to ensure maximum performance across the widest range of applications and WAN environments.
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Figure 2. Silver Peak VXOA Architecture
Silver Peak appliances leverage the following Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture (VXOA) technology components to accelerate all enterprise applications in a secure and reliable fashion:
Network Memory: Silver Peak's solution for disk-based WAN deduplication. Network Memory inspects all traffic that is sent between clients and servers, storing information as a local instance in Silver Peak appliances. Repetitive information is delivered locally rather than sent across the WAN, improving application performance and WAN utilization. Cross-flow payload and header compression provide additional gains on first-time data transfers and non-repetitive traffic.
Network Integrity: Silver Peak employs a variety of real-time techniques to address packet delivery issues common to shared WAN technologies such as MPLS and Internet connections. These include adaptive Forward Error Correction (FEC) and Packet Order Correction (POC) to overcome dropped and out-of-order packets, and advanced Quality of Service (QoS) techniques to prioritize traffic and guarantee network resources.
Network Acceleration: Silver Peak mitigates the impacts of latency across the WAN by using various TCP acceleration techniques, like adjustable window sizing and selective acknowledgements. These tools help to overcome inherent chattiness that can otherwise hamper application performance across a WAN.
Encryption: Silver Peak can encrypt network traffic using an AES-256 IPsec VPN. Any traffic sent between Silver Peak software instances can be accelerated and encrypted at wire speed.
Virtual Deployment Options: Silver Peak can be deployed as a physical appliance (NX) or a virtual instance (VX/VRX). Silver Peak’s virtual products can be deployed on any hypervisor (VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Xen, and KVM) and on any server hardware that meets the minimum requirements.
VRX replication acceleration software is typically sized based on the available WAN bandwidth for data protection traffic, including replication, backup, and data migration. Each VRX model has a limit on the amount of WAN bandwidth that it will support. The VXOA software that powers VRX can also be limited in the amount of bandwidth that will be used on the WAN.
For example, if you have 100 Mbps of WAN bandwidth, but only 40 Mbps is available for replication traffic, a VRX-4 will be used with a configured system rate limit of 40 Mbps. This allows the VRX-4 to take in as much data as possible, optimize the data, and then transmit up to the rate limit across the WAN.
Table 2. Silver Peak Replication Accelerator Models
Silver Peak Model VRX-2 VRX-4 VRX-6 VRX-8
WAN Throughput 20 Mbps 100 Mbps 300 Mbps 1 Gbps
Average Accelerated Data Throughput
50 GBph 250 GBph 750 GBph 2 TBph
Sizing
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Silver Peak also offers a full range of WAN optimization options that can be deployed as virtual or physical appliances. More information of Silver Peak’s WAN optimization products is available at Silver-peak.com.
All of Silver Peak’s software options are available on the Silver Peak marketplace with a 30 day free trial.
Based on the testing and validation performed, we recommend that Silver Peak replication acceleration software be deployed with RecoverPoint in the following scenarios:
The WAN has 40 ms or higher of latency, with packet loss of 0.1% orhigher
WAN latency is greater than 150 ms with less than 0.1% packet loss
The WAN is shared with other data protection, or end user applications
A vRPA is deployed on a server without sufficient resources to enableRecoverPoint deduplication and compression
The RPA/vRPA consistently enters a high load state due to WANproblems, or high CPU utilization from deduplication and compression
Obtaining Silver Peak Software
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Chapter 3 Implementation Process Overview
Before You Begin The following items should be completed before beginning installation:
Comply with the Velocity Replication Accelerator (VRX) Host SystemRequirements. The current version is available on the Silver Peak UserDocumentation portal.
Download the virtual appliance OVF template file:
For a 30-day free trial, go to the Silver Peak Marketplace.
If you have already purchased the software, log in to the SilverPeak Support portal to download the installation file.
Obtain a Velocity Replication Accelerator (VRX) activation license key
A static IP address is recommended for the Silver Peak appliance
Complete the IP Configuration Worksheet in Appendix B
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Chapter 4 Installation and Configuration
This chapter describes the process of installing the Silver Peak replication acceleration software in a VMware vSphere environment, and the configuration of EMC RecoverPoint for use with the Silver Peak software.
Silver Peak VRX Installation
1. Launch the vSphere client and enter the IP address for the VMwarevSphere host.
Figure 3. VMware vSphere client
2. From the File menu, select Deploy OVF Template, and follow thesteps in the wizard.
Note: On the Name and Location page, we changed the virtualappliance’s default name to MySilverPeak, to make this example moregeneric.
3. When the Storage page appears, verify that the storage you selectmeets the requirements specified in the Velocity Replication AcceleratorHost System Requirements, available on the Silver Peak UserDocumentation Portal.
Deploy the Velocity Replication Accelerator OVF template
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Figure 4. Adding storage for the Silver Peak virtual machine
4. On the Disk Format page, select Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed.
Figure 5. Selecting storage type
5. The Network Mapping page defaults to selecting VM Network. If this isnot appropriate for you environment, select the network that is correct.
Note that the network adapter associated with the Network you selectmust be on the same subnet as the RecoverPoint appliance, RPA orvRPA.
Figure 6. Mapping network to network adapter
6. When the Ready to Complete page appears, go to the bottom of thepage and click Finish.
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Figure 7. Finish Silver Peak OVF deployment
7. The Silver Peak appliance will now be deployed.
1. In the vSphere Client, select the newly deployed virtual appliance and
click to power it on.
Figure 8. Power on Silver Peak virtual machine
2. Click the Console tab. The Silver Peak Console User Interface appears.
Establish Connectivity to the Virtual Appliance
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Figure 9. Silver Peak console
3. The next task is to determine the virtual appliance’s IP address. SilverPeak recommends using a static IP address for all VRX replicationacceleration deployments. A static IP address prevents the IP addressfrom changing and disrupting replication.
a. If you are using DHCP, the virtual appliance IP addressdisplays in Silver Peak’s Console User Interface. Follow the stepsbelow to change to a static IP address.
Figure 10. Silver Peak DHCP
b. If you are not using DHCP, Then you must configure thestatic IP address and default gateway.
Figure 11. Silver Peak static IP address
i. In the virtual appliance console, press function key F4,and complete the remaining steps.
ii. When prompted to choose the type of managementinterface, select Static.
iii. After selecting Apply, you can review the settings byselecting function key F2.
c. To verify connectivity, press function key F1, and enter thefollowing commands:
i. [vrx-appliance]> enable [ENTER]
ii. [vrx-appliance]> show ip default-gateway [ENTER]
iii. [vrx-appliance]> ping <default-gateway> [ENTER]
To stop the ping enter CTRL-C
You are now ready to complete the Silver Peak virtualappliance initial configuration wizard.
1. In a web browser, enter the IP address that you discovered orconfigured in the console. The Silver Peak Appliance ManagementConsole login page appears.
Complete the Appliance Manager Initial Configuration Wizard
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Figure 12. Silver Peak appliance manager login
2. For both the User Name and Password, enter admin. The initialconfiguration wizard will start.
Figure 13. Silver Peak configuration wizard
3. Complete the remaining steps in the wizard.
4. On the final step in the wizard, click Apply. When the virtual appliancesasks to reboot, click allow. The appliance will reboot and the ApplianceManager will return to the login page.
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Silver Peak Best Practices
Silver Peak can optionally encrypt all traffic sent between appliances using an AES 256 IPsec VPN. IPsec is configured on a per tunnel basis, allowing some sites to be IPsec-encrypted while others are not.
To configure IPsec select the tunnel that is being used to send replication traffic by clicking on Configuration > Tunnels in the Silver Peak appliance manager. Click the name of the tunnel to open the Modify Tunnel screen. In the Modify Tunnel screen, select ipsec for the Mode, and enter an IPSec Pre-share Key. The Key can be any text string, and must be the same on each end of the tunnel.
Figure 14. Silver Peak Modify Tunnel Window
Forward Error Correction, FEC, is a tunnel option that is used to recover lost packets on the WAN in real time without requiring the data to be resent. Real-time packet loss can be measured in the Silver Peak appliance manager, Figure 14.
Figure 15. Silver Peak WAN Loss % Chart
When there is evidence of consistent packet loss on the WAN, a FEC setting of enable with a ratio of 1:5 is recommended. By using a FEC setting of enable
Encryption
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with a ratio of 1:5, packet loss across the WAN will be corrected, increasing overall replication throughput. When packet loss is rare or intermittent, FEC should be set to auto with a ratio of 1:5. Auto will allow VXOA to dynamically control the amount of parity packets that are injected into the data stream, with the upper limit capped by the chosen Ratio value (1:5). For WANs that have zero packet loss, FEC can be set to auto or off. Off should only be used when there is no chance for bandwidth contention or dropped packets. When a setting of off is used, packet loss should be carefully monitored in the VXOA GUI.
FEC is configured per tunnel, like IPsec. To configure FEC, open the Modify Tunnel window by clicking on Configuration > Tunnels in the Silver Peak appliance manager. Change FEC to enable or auto, and change Ratio depending on the amount of loss present.
Table 3. Recommended FEC Settings
WAN Loss FEC Setting FEC Ratio
0.1% or less Auto 1:10
Greater than 0.1% enable 1:5
RecoverPoint Configuration To redirect RecoverPoint replication traffic to the Silver Peak replication acceleration software we will be adding a static route, or gateway, to each RPA or vRPA that is replicating to the remote site. In a traditional deployment, the WAN router is the default gateway for all traffic leaving the local network. For this deployment the Silver Peak IP address, configured in the previous steps, will be used. By using the Silver Peak IP address, we can eliminate changes to the network router or switches.
FromStorage Array
Ethernet or Fibre Channel Adapter WAN Port
1 / 10 Gb Ethernet
RecoverPoint ReplicationTraffic to Silver Peak
Silver Peak AcceleratedRecoverPoint Replication
To Remote Site
RecoverPointAppliance
Silver Peak
Figure 16. Accelerated Data Flow Diagram
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1. Connect to the RPA/vRPA via ssh, or a console connection window inVMware.
2. Login as boxmgmt with the appropriate password.
Figure 17. RecoverPoint login
3. After logging in as boxmgmt, select the following menu items to add anew gateway. Setup > Modify Settings > Cluster Details >Connectivity Settings > Gateways configuration.
4. From the Gateways configuration menu select View clustergateways. Note the gateways displayed.
5. Next, select Add a gateway.
Figure 18. RecoverPoint Gateway Configuration
6. Select IPv4 for the network interface IP version.
Figure 19. RecoverPoint IP Version
7. Enter the IP address of the Silver Peak appliance as the gateway IP.
8. Enter the network mas and subnet the remote RPA/vRPA.
9. Enter y to confirm and apply the new gateway.
Figure 20. Confirm RecoverPoint New Gateway
10. Select View cluster gateways from the Gateways configuration menuand verify the new gateway has been entered.
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Chapter 5 Validating Silver Peak Operation
To determine if the Silver Peak software is accelerating RecoverPoint, the Silver Peak element manager will be used to view RecoverPoint replication traffic.
Measuring Performance with Silver Peak
Log in to the Silver Peak appliance manager and select Application View. For each RecoverPoint appliance that is sending replication traffic, there will be an entry that lists the IP address for the sending and receiving appliances, as well as the port numbers in use across the network. The status of the flow is also listed, and should be OPTIMIZED. The amount of data sent and received is listed as Outbound and Inbound, along with the reduction % that the Silver Peak software is able to achieve. Finally the Up Time for the flow is displayed, this value helps to determine how active the replication is and how long it has been sending data.
Figure 21. Silver Peak Flow Performance
Additional information is available for the amount of data that has been sent across the WAN by looking to the Outbound Data section of the Application View. Outbound data displays the top 5 applications that have been accelerated over the last 60 minutes, 24 hours, or 10 days. This data is useful to determine if something has changed in the environment and RecoverPoint is sending more or less data than is typically sent.
Figure 22. Silver Peak Throughput Chart
The Network View is also useful to determine the health of the WAN. The Network View displays the bandwidth usage across the WAN, The Top Applications accelerated, the minimum, average and peak latency and also the pre and post FEC loss.
Silver Peak Performance
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Chapter 6 Testing and Validation
This appendix details the testing and validation process that was used for Silver Peak and RecoverPoint.
Silver Peak Testing and Validation with RecoverPoint
A dedicated test environment was deployed to test deployment scenarios across several WAN configurations with varying latency and loss. Testing was performed with physical RecoverPoint Appliances (RPA) and virtual RecoverPoint Appliances (vRPA). For physical RPA testing, Silver Peak VRX-8 software running on VMware vSphere was used for acceleration Figure 2. While testing with the vRPA, Silver Peak VRX-4 software was used for acceleration. Using the VRX-4 allowed the vRPA and VRX-4 to run on the same VMware vSphere instance, providing a single server solution for data protection.
The following components were used for RecoverPoint RPA and vRPA testing with Silver Peak. Table 4. Test Suite Details
Device/Tool Name Version
RecoverPoint SE RPA, vRPA 4.0.SP1 (k.137)
Source Array VNX 5800 CLARiiON Splitter Version 5.33.000.5.015 Target Array VNX 7600
Silver Peak Appliances VRX-8, VRX-4 VXOA 6.2.0.0_46411
WAN Emulator KWANEM 52909
During testing, the following bandwidth, latency, and loss parameters were used.
Table 5. Bandwidths Tested
Bandwidth Tested Latencies Tested Loss Percent Tested
RPA 1 Gbps 0, 20, 40, 60, 80, 120, 160, 200, 300 ms
0, 0.1, 1%
vRPA 100 Mbps 0, 40, 80 120 ms 0, 0.1, 1%
All vRPA testing was performed using a single server to host the vRPA and the VRX-4 software. Performance across latencies, with packet loss of 0.1% and 1%, is consistent when Silver Peak is used to accelerate the replication traffic. Without Silver Peak, RecoverPoint throughput is reduced by the combination
Test Methodology
Test Suite Overview
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of packet loss and latency. Figure 24 shows replication throughput from the vRPA with 0.1% packet loss, while Figure 25 shows vRPA throughput with 1% packet loss. In both charts, Silver Peak helps RecoverPoint maintain a consistent throughput for replication, even with packet loss and latency.
Figure 23. vRPA/VRX-4 Test Environment
Figure 24. vRPA Test Results with 0.1% Loss
Figure 25. vRPA Test Results with 1% Loss
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Physical RPA testing shows similar results to vRPA testing. RecoverPoint replication throughput is reduced on WAN connections that have latency and packet loss present. As latency increases, throughput decreases. With high levels of packet loss (1%), and high latency (greater than 80 ms), the RPA enters a high load state and is unable to maintain replication. Default configuration options were used for this testing, however tuning options are available to reduce high load states albeit at a reduced throughput. When Silver Peak software is deployed with RecoverPoint, replication throughput is maintained even when high levels of packet loss and latency are present on the WAN. Figure 27 shows replication throughput with 0.1% packet loss, typical of an MPLS network, with varying latency. Figure 28 shows replication throughput with 1% packet loss, typical of an Internet connection, with varying levels of latency.
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Figure 28. RPA Test Results with 1% Loss
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Figure 29. RPA Throughput across Multiple Latencies
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Appendix A USEFUL LINKS
Silver Peak Marketplace - http://marketplace.silver-peak.com/
Silver Peak support and documentation - http://www.silver-peak.com/support
EMC Support and documentation – https://support.emc.com/
RecoverPoint documentation – https://support.emc.com/products/1226_RecoverPoint-CL
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Appendix B IP Configuration Worksheet
Primary Site Secondary Site Silver Peak IP: Silver Peak IP:
Replication Bandwidth: Replication Bandwidth: Wan Router: Wan Router:
Remote RPA IP addresses: Remote RPA IP addresses: Remote Subnet Mask: Remote Subnet Mask: