Storage (datastore replication) DR

[ahafiz77]

Hi,

Recently I being handed task to include DR environment to our Production. And this DR only brought up once the Production failed.

Giving example

Host A (Southeast Asia)

VM01 and VM02

Host B (Asia)

VM03 and VM04

So if Host A and the other infra completely went down. It should be move to Host B. And technically vCenter will manage that. But how about the SAN that I have in Host A.

I did read about the vMotion but it only happend if you can access the SAN in Host A. 

The other one is vSAN. I believe there is license to subscribe.

Is there any specific way to can be done with vCenter ?

Or should I engage storage to help me on this.

What I'm trying to achieve is having the datastore on both SAN. If SAN on Host A is down. I can have the copies on Host B.

[depping · Accepted solution]

You do not need vSAN to achieve this, there's a free replication solution called vSphere Replication which you can use to replicate your VMs in Site A to Site B. This is asynchronous replication. If you need sync replication then you could talk to the storage team to see what the SANs in both locations support (if they are a similar make and model that is of course)