nicconf 2015 - azure disaster recovery in 60min

Peter De Tender - @pdtit

Building your Hyper-V Disaster Recovery to Azure in 60min

Journey in this session

What is DR?

Microsoft DR Solutions

Microsoft Azure Site Recovery Manager

About Peter De Tender - @pdtit

@PDTIT

IAMCT Country Lead Belux

- IAMCT European

Chairman

8 year MCT

Microsoft Learning Regional Lead

Trainer, Speaker

Microsoft Infrastructure Expert

Leader&

Microsoft Alliance Manager

SOGETI Belgium

About Peter De Tender - @pdtit

https://www.packtpub.com/virtualization-and-cloud/mastering-hyper-v

What is D/R in the end?

How to stay calm when the lights go out…

…Easy-peasy, right? any questions?? Thank you and goodbye

No light…means…

Panic…

Light switch…..

Turn on….Calm restored….Kudos to Kristian Nese for this animation inspiration

…If it only was this simple

…If everything else fails…

…There’s always the WBW(*) feature…

WBW = wake by wife

“Familiar” DR Solutions• Storage replication• Stretch cluster using

single vLAN with single address space

• Active / passive• Dynamic incoming

connection failover

Effective, although expensive to deploy and maintain

Normally tied to hardware vendor specific technologies

Difficult to perform partial failovers

Stretch cluster –Single vLAN

DataCenter 1

Fault- tolerant data storage

Compute nodes

SAN replication

DataCenter 2

Fault- tolerant data storage

Compute nodes

Geo-Load Balancing

External DR solution

The DR challenge

Your on-prem IT platformYour datacenter

• Historically challenging– Complicated solutions– Required end-to-end planning and design– Vendor lock-in– In most cases “pretty” expensive

• Commodity solutions are now in the market– Public cloud offerings– Service provider solutions– OPEX vs. CAPEX for your DR = it’s way cheaper!!!!

Reasons to reconsider your DR today

- Monthly scheduled reboots “maintenance plan”

- Backup or long term data solution (but having a backup already helps… )

- “I can blame it on the IT guy anyway”

DR doesn’t mean…

Compute Storage Networks

SQLIISApps

3rd Party Storage Replication

VM Replication with Hyper-V Replica

e.g. SQL Always ON, Exchange DAG,…

DR Orchestrationwith

Azure Site Recovery Manager

Microsoft’s DR stack

Backups

Microsoft solutionsBreadth & depth solutions for business continuity & disaster recovery

Hyper-V FailoverClustering for VM Resilience

1

Hyper-V Guest Clustering for app-level HA, i.e. SQL Server AlwaysOn FCI2}

Centralized backup with Data Protection Manager 4

Simplified protection with Windows Server Backup 3

Integration of WSB/DPM with Microsoft Azure Backup 5

Orchestrated Physical, Hyper-V & VMware VM Replication & Recovery using Azure Site Recovery, between on-premises locations, or between on-premises & Microsoft Azure

6

Microsoft Azure

Azure Backup

Data Protection Challenges

Data rates are growing at over 40% per year. Rapid Data Growth

Cost of storage growing

Cost of backup solutions

Complexity of managing all that storage

Important data may go without the protection it

should haveOperation Challenges

Introducing Azure Backup

Simple and reliable server backup to the cloud

• Offsite FILES & FOLDERS data protection in Microsoft Azure storage

• Integrated with existing data protection tools

• Coolest integration with Server Essentials Experience

• Efficient use of resources

Azure Backup enhances Microsoft backup tools with cloud backup capabilities

Introducing Backup to Azure

Simple and reliable server backup to the cloud

• Offsite FULL SYSTEM BACKUPS data protection in Microsoft Azure storage

• Integrated with existing data protection tools

• Efficient use of resources

Azure Backup enhances Microsoft backup tools with cloud backup capabilities

Suitable for any workloadWhen to Choose Backup to Azure

Protected ServerSystem Center

DPM or any 3rd party B2D

File ServerSQL

Exchange

Or

Already using System Center Data Protection Manager or any other Backup-to-Disk solution? Azure Backup integrates easily

Small business or branch office? Azure Backup integrates with the in-box Windows Server backup tool

How Azure Backup Works

4. Backup

2. Install Agent

1. Sign Up

Window Server 2012 R2

3. Register and Configure

5. Recover - to the same or a different server

Encrypted Data

Native Windows Backup

How Azure Backup Works

4. Backup

2. Install Agent

1. Sign Up

DPM or3rd party

3. Register and Configure

5. Recover - to the same or a different server

Encrypted Data

Microsoft DPM or 3rd party backup to Azure

Data is encrypted on-premises…

Security

… so the data is encrypted on the network…

… and remains encrypted while stored

• Only you have your key• Protect your key• Data cannot be recovered without your key• Microsoft does not have your key

Demo - Azure Backup + Backup to Azure

Hyper-V Replica

Hyper-V Replica Overview

Simple Affordable Flexible

Inbox replicationApplication agnosticStorage agnostic

Once Hyper-V Replica is enabled, VMs begin replication

• Affordable in-box business continuity and disaster recovery

• Configurable replication frequencies of 30 seconds, 5 minutes and 15 minutes

• Secure replication across network• Agnostic of hardware on either site• No need for other virtual machine replication

technologies• Automatic handling of live migration• Simple configuration and management

Replicate Hyper‑V VMs from a Primary to a Replica site

Hyper V Replica‑

Primary Site Secondary SiteInitial Replica

Once replicated, changes replicated on chosen frequency

Replicated Changes

Upon site failure, VMs can be started on secondary site

CSV onBlockStorage

SMB ShareFile Based

Storage

Replication configured from primary to secondary

Hyper-V Replica | Extended Replication

• Once a VM has been successfully replicated to the replica site, replicacan be replicated to a 3rd location

• Chained Replication

• Extended Replica contents match the original replication contents

• Extended Replica replication frequencies can differ from original replica

• Useful for scenarios such as SMB -> Service Provider -> Service Provider DR Site

Replicate to 3rd Location for Extra Level of Resiliency

DR Site

DASStorage

Replication can be enabled on the 1st replica to a 3rd site

Replication

DR Orchestration

DR

Orchestratio

n

SCVMM


DRP

Primary Site

SCVMM


DRP

Azure Site Recovery (ASR) Initially

Secondary Site

Extensible Data Channel (Hyper-V Replica)

Azure Site Recovery

DR Orchestration

DR

Orchestratio

n

Hyper-V Host 2012 R2


DRP

Primary Site



DRP

Azure Site Recovery (ASR) Today

Secondary Site


Azure Site Recovery

DR Orchestration

DR

Orchestratio

n



DRP

Primary Site



DRP

Azure Site Recovery (ASR) Today

Secondary Site

can just be Azure!!


Azure Site Recovery

ASR Deployment Options

On-prem Hyper-V hosts On-prem Hyper-V hosts On-prem Hyper-V hosts

On-Prem to On-Prem• SC VMM required at

all locations• Direct routable access

between each site (to allow HVR to replicate)

• Secondary and territory replication targets supported

• Recovery plans managed by yourself

• Failover managed by yourself


On-prem Hyper-V hosts Azure

On-Prem to Azure • SC VMM required at primary location

• ASR plug-in installed in all Hyper-V hosts to allow replication to and from Azure

• Recovery plans managed by yourself

• Failover managed by yourself


On-prem Hyper-V hosts Service provider

On-Prem to validated service provider • SC VMM required at primary location

• Publishing of Hyper-V hosts required to allow replication

• Recovery plans managed by service provider

• Failover managed by service provider


• Protect important services bycoordinating replication and recovery of VMM-managed private clouds

• Automates replication of VMs within clouds between sites

• Hyper-V Replica provides replication, orchestrated by Azure Site Recovery Manager

• Can be used for planned, unplanned and testing failover between sites

• Integrate with scripts for customization of recovery plans

Orchestrate protection and recovery of private clouds

Replication Channel

Datacenter 1

LOB cloud/Dev-testLOB cloud/Dev-test

Failover

Datacenter 2Co

mm

unica

tion

chan

nel Com

munication channel

Windows AzureSite Recovery Manager

Hyper-V Hosts

Hyper-V Hosts

VMM 2012 R2 orHyper-V Host

VMM 2012 R2 orHyper-V Host

Azure Site Recovery – Step-by-Step

Step 1 : Create a vault Create an Azure Site Recovery vault.

Step 2 : Create a Hyper-V Site Create a Hyper-V site as a logical container for all the Hyper-V servers that contain virtual machines you want to protect.

Step 3 : Prepare Hyper-V Servers Generate a registration key and download the Provider setup file. You run the file on each Hyper-V server in the site and select the key to register the server in the vault.

Step 4 : Prepare Resources Create an Azure storage account to store replicated virtual machines.

Step 5 : Create and configure Protection Groups Create a protection group and apply protection settings to it. The protection settings will be applied to every virtual machine you add to the group.

Step 6 : Enable Protection for VM’s Enable protection for virtual machines by adding them to a protection group.

Step 7 : Test Deployment Run a test failover for a virtual machine.

3. Deploy Provider on VMM and Host Agent on Hosts

Microsoft Azure Site RecoveryHow it works: initial configuration

Primary Site

System Center Virtual MachineManager

1. Sign up

Secondary Site

2. Create Recovery Vault and Download

Provider + Registration file

4. VMM Metadata pushed to Azure Site Recovery, outbound, over HTTPS

Microsoft Azure Site RecoveryHow it works: configuring protection and map networks

Primary Site

System Center Virtual MachineManager

AD

SQL

LOB

Secondary Site

5. On Primary Site, create VMM Clouds & add VMs

7. Configure Protectionof Clouds

6. On Secondary Site, create corresponding Storage Accounts

8. ContinuousHealth Monitoring

9. Map VM Networks from Primary to Secondary

Azure Site Recovery - Walkthrough

Demo - Azure Site Recovery Manager

COMPRESSED DATA STORED PER MONTH• First 5 GB / Month = Free• Greater than 5 GB / Month = 0.25€ per GB

per month

Great, Now What’s The Cost Of This?

That’s the REALLY GOOD NEWS to end with!

Azure Site Recovery Manager with SAN Replication – new announcement (Nov ‘14)

Partner Integration

Key Value Propositions

SAN ReplicationTake advantage of SAN Replication capabilities provided by enterprise storage partners, across both FC & iSCSI storageSupports asynchronous replication for flexibility or synchronous replication for the lowest RPO/RTO

Full Disaster Recovery orchestration for SAN storageSupport for applications that require DR with shared storage, such as SQL Server, SharePoint, SAP etc.Integrated with Azure Site Recovery for streamlined, consistent experience.

Integration with SAN via SMI-S – VMM will discover and enumerate existing storage.

VMM provides comprehensive SAN management capabilities within console

Introducing ASR with SAN Replication

On-premises to On-premises protection

Microsoft Azure Site Recovery

Communication Channel

SAN Replication

Primary Site

Recovery Site

Windows Server

Windows Server

Journey in this session

What is DR?


Microsoft Azure Site Recovery Manager

Peter De Tender - @pdtit

Building your Hyper-V Disaster Recovery to Azure in 60min

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