How vMotion Works ?

What is vMotion?

• vMotion  enables live migration of a running virtual machine between ESXi Hosts
• It is transparent to the Virtual Machine’s OS and applications.
• Invaluable tool to admin to achieve the followings;
  • Avoid Server Downtime
  • Allow Troubleshooting
  • Provide Flexibility
• Key enabler of DRS, DPM, and FT

What needs to be migrated?

• Processor and devices state  – CPU, Network, SVGA
• Disk – Use shared storage between source and destination
• Memory – Pre copy memory while Virtual Machine is running

How vMotion Works?

• Quiesce Virtual Machine on source machine.
• Transfer memory and device state(checkpoint) from source to destination.
• Resume Virtual Machine on Destination
• Copy remainder of memory from source to destination
• Free Virtual Machine resources on source machine.

Other Interesting Facts, Problems, and Troubleshooting: –

• Virtual  Machine remains suspended during memory transfer
• Copying Virtual Machine with large memory size may problematic.
• 64 GB Virtual Machine requires around 57 seconds on 10 GbE NIC.
• VMotion will check the remote system to make sure there is enough RAM and CPU before it begins the process.

Troubleshooting: –

• Migration ID is same on source and destination.
  • Go to VMkernel log (/var/log/vmkernel.log)
  • Grep the migration ID for all vMotion related timing and statistics.

That’s it from here. Stay connected.

 

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Learn SRM – Part 15 – Perform Real Recovery during Disaster Scenario in VMware SRM 6.5

In last article, we saw how to perform a test DR or you can say that Test Drill using Site Recovery Manager.

In this article, we are going to explore a live situation if you face a real Disaster then how will you recover Virtual Machines from Protected Site to Recovery Site.

Step by Step: –

• Login to Site Recovery Manager Console.
• Go to Monitor tab under Recovery Plan Section.
• Click on Red icon.

• Here you will get a different options. In test recovery, you didn’t had this option. But if you perform a real DR, then you have two options.

1. Planned Migration
2. Disaster Recovery

• If you want to perform a real recovery during any Disaster, you have to choose option 2 which is for Disaster Recovery scenario.
• Accept Recovery Confirmation and Click on Next.

• Disaster Recovery is ready to start. Click on Finish.

• Real Recovery has been started. You can monitor the status of recovery here .

So that’s all from VMware Site Recovery Manager module. We are closing this module here. If you have not gone through with earlier articles, please go through with that to get a detailed information on VMware SRM. I will come back with the new topic next week. Stay tuned to Cloud Pathshala.

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Take a look in below topics, explore and learn Site Recovery Manager: –

• Learn SRM – Part 1 – Introduction of VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.1
  

• Learn SRM – Part 2 – Understand VMware Site Recovery Manager Licensing

• Learn SRM – Part 3 – Understand Minimum Requirement for SRM in your Home Lab

• Learn SRM – Part 4 – Prepare for Replicated Storage in you Home Lab (Ignore this step in Real Environment. You need to interact with Storage team for all these tasks in real environment)

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.1 – Deploy HP VSA in Both Site

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.2 -Configure HP VSA Appliance Networking in both Site

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.3 -Install HP CMC Management Console

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.4 -Add Appliance in HP CMC

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.5 -Create Management Group in HP VSA

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.6 -Create Cluster and Volumes in HP VSA

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.7 -Find and Add ISCSI Initiator in ESXi Host

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.8 -Assign Volume to ESXi Host

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.9 -Scheduling Array Based Replication

• Learn SRM – Part 5 – Install VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.1 (SRM)

• Learn SRM – Part 6 – Install SRA (Storage Replication Adapter)

• Learn SRM – Part 7 – Configure Site Pairing for both Protected and Recovery Site
  

• Learn SRM – Part 8 – Configure SRM Array Manager Pairing

• Learn SRM – Part 9 – Configure Resource Mapping in VMware SRM
  

• Learn SRM – Part 10 – Create Placeholder Datastore in VMware SRM
  

• Learn SRM – Part 11 – Configure Protected Groups in VMware SRM
  

• Learn SRM – Part 12 – Configure Recovery Plans in VMware SRM
  

• Learn SRM – Part 13 – Perform Test Drill using VMware SRM
  

• Learn SRM – Part 14 – Perform Cleanup Activity in VMware SRM
  

• Learn SRM – Part 15 – Perform Real Recovery during Disaster Scenario in VMware SRM 6.5

Learn SRM – Part 14 – Perform Cleanup Activity in VMware SRM 6.5

Once our Testing has been completed, we need to run cleanup of the environment. Site Recovery Manager performs several cleanup operations after a test.

• Powers off the recovered virtual machines.
• Replaces recovered virtual machines with placeholders, preserving their identity and configuration information.
• Cleans up replicated storage snapshots that the recovered virtual machines used during the test.

Step by Step: –

• Login to VMware Site Recovery Manager Console.
• Go to Monitor Tab and Click on icon highlighted in Red box.

• Ready the Informational message. you may also choose Force Cleanup option if normal cleanup doesn’t work properly.
• Click on Next

• Cleanup Activity is ready to complete. Click on Finish to start the activity.

• Monitor the Status of Cleanup Activity.

• Cleanup has been done. Status is again in Ready State now. You can see the Green Run icon has been highlighted.

That’s all about Cleaning up our environment after Test Disaster Recovery. I will also add one more article which will show you how to Perform Recovery during Real Disaster. Stay Tuned to next article.

Take a look in below topics, explore and learn Site Recovery Manager: –

• Learn SRM – Part 1 – Introduction of VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.1
  

• Learn SRM – Part 2 – Understand VMware Site Recovery Manager Licensing

• Learn SRM – Part 3 – Understand Minimum Requirement for SRM in your Home Lab

• Learn SRM – Part 4 – Prepare for Replicated Storage in you Home Lab (Ignore this step in Real Environment. You need to interact with Storage team for all these tasks in real environment)

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.1 – Deploy HP VSA in Both Site

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.2 -Configure HP VSA Appliance Networking in both Site

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.3 -Install HP CMC Management Console

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.4 -Add Appliance in HP CMC

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.5 -Create Management Group in HP VSA

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.6 -Create Cluster and Volumes in HP VSA

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.7 -Find and Add ISCSI Initiator in ESXi Host

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.8 -Assign Volume to ESXi Host

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.9 -Scheduling Array Based Replication

• Learn SRM – Part 5 – Install VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.1 (SRM)

• Learn SRM – Part 6 – Install SRA (Storage Replication Adapter)

• Learn SRM – Part 7 – Configure Site Pairing for both Protected and Recovery Site
  

• Learn SRM – Part 8 – Configure SRM Array Manager Pairing

• Learn SRM – Part 9 – Configure Resource Mapping in VMware SRM
  

• Learn SRM – Part 10 – Create Placeholder Datastore in VMware SRM
  

• Learn SRM – Part 11 – Configure Protected Groups in VMware SRM
  

• Learn SRM – Part 12 – Configure Recovery Plans in VMware SRM
  

• Learn SRM – Part 13 – Perform Test Drill using VMware SRM
  

• Learn SRM – Part 14 – Perform Cleanup Activity in VMware SRM
  

• Learn SRM – Part 15 – Perform Cleanup Activity in VMware SRM