New Disaster Recovery to Cloud Tutorial Videos

This post originally appeared on the VMware vCloudblog ByChris Colotti I wanted to take a few minutes to explain more about the eight new VMware vCloud Hybrid Service – Disaster Recovery tutorial videos that were recently published onhttp://vcloud.vmware.com/tutorials. There are approximately 8 videos that cover various areas in order of how you might setup the […]]> This post originally appeared on the VMware vCloudblog

ByChris Colotti

I wanted to take a few minutes to explain more about the eight new VMware vCloud Hybrid Service – Disaster Recovery tutorial videos that were recently published onhttp://vcloud.vmware.com/tutorials. There are approximately 8 videos that cover various areas in order of how you might setup the service. Although these are meant for someone to use after they have purchased the service, I feel that they can be very useful even if you just want to better understand how you do things within the VMware vCloud Hybrid Service – Disaster Recovery. Below are brief explanations of each video so you have an idea of what they are all about.

Introduction Video

This video is a short compilation of the individual videos below. It’s intended to touch on two or three key areas in an abbreviated form as an overview before diving into the individual videos. This video is a great starting point to learn basics about the service.

Prerequisites Video

Before you begin to configure VMware vCloud Hybrid Service – Disaster Recovery, like anything else there are some pre-requisites you need to cover. This video discusses the basic things you need to have in place before you begin, such as having the right appliance and vCloud Connector components.

Configure Remote Site Video

In this video you will see all the basic steps and information you will need to get a remote site set up and configured within vSphere Replication. You will see how to select your test and failover network, as well as hear some considerations about networking in general.

Configure Replication Video

This covers everything you need to know to get replication setup on any given virtual machine using vSphere Replication and VMware vCloud Hybrid Service – Disaster Recovery. You will see there are very few steps involved in getting the actual replication started.

Performing a Test Failover Video

Once you have completed a replication, the next step will be to perform a test failover, which will maintain the replication in the background. This video covers the simple process of performing a failover so you can actually see a test failover in action, and the virtual machine running post test failover.

Performing a Planned Failover Video

Of course, a planned failover can be done, but it will shutdown the source machines and stop replication. In this video, you will see this process in action. Remember, once complete this process you have to perform a failback – not just a test cleanup as explained in the previous video.

Failing Back to vSphere On-Premises Video

This video is one of the longer in the series, but only because the failback process can be slightly more time intensive. You will see the complete process for returning the failed over machine back to vSphere on premises. This video also illustrates the restart of the replication process using the cloud-based machine as a replication seed.

Advanced Concepts Video

This final video is perhaps the most important. In many Disaster Recovery videos, all you see is the failed over machine being powered on. In this video, you will see a Windows Domain member machine logged onto a local Domain Controller failed over. Not only is the machine powered on, but it’s also logged into a new local domain controller in an adjacent vCloud Hybrid Service Virtual Private Cloud via a cloud-to-cloud VPN.

Hopefully these videos help you get a better understanding of the VMware vCloud Hybrid Service – Disaster Recovery offering and how you can use it in your organization.

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Chris is a Principal Technical Marketing Architect with the vCloud Hybrid Services team with over 10 years of experience working with IT hardware and software solutions. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Information Systems from the Daniel Webster College. Prior to VMware he served a Fortune 1000 company in southern NH as a Systems Architect/Administrator, architecting VMware solutions to support new application deployments. At VMware, in the roles of Consulting Architect, Chris has guided partners as well as customers in establishing a VMware practice and consulted on multiple customer projects ranging from datacenter migrations to long-term residency architecture support. Currently, Chris is working on the newest VMware vCloud Hybrid Service solutions and architectures for vSphere customers wishing to migrate to the VMware Hybrid Cloud Service. Chris is also a VMware Certified Design Expert, (VCDX #37).

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