ActiveDR with VMware Table of Contents

• ActiveDR Setup and Prerequisites
• Guidelines for ActiveDR in VMware Environments
  • Overview
  • Best Practices
    • Setting the ESXi Host Personality
    • Volume/Pod Placement
  • VAAI and ActiveDR
  • VMware and ActiveDR Integration Requirements and Limitations
• Enabling ActiveDR for VMware Storage
  • Overview and ActiveDR Configuration
    • Enabling ActiveDR on a FlashArray Pair
  • Provisioning with the Pure Storage Plugin for the vSphere Client
    • Provisioning a VMFS Datastore into an ActiveDR Pod
      • Viewing VMFS ActiveDR status
    • Provisioning an RDM into an ActiveDR Pod
• Demoting an ActiveDR Pod in a VMware Environment
  • Preparing the VMware Environment for a Pod Demotion
    • Identify Storage with the Pure Storage Plugin for the vSphere Client
    • Identify Storage with the FlashArray UI and the vSphere Client
    • Shutdown and Unregistering Virtual Machines
    • Prepare VMFS datastores for ActiveDR Demotion
    • Prepare RDMs for ActiveDR Demotion
  • Demoting a Source ActiveDR Pod
  • Demoting a Target ActiveDR Pod
• Promoting an ActiveDR Pod in a VMware environment
  • Test Recovery: Promoting a Target Pod
  • Recovery: Promoting a Target Pod after Source Pod Demotion
  • Resignaturing Datastores
  • Updating Raw Device Mappings
  • Re-Promoting a Source Pod

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