VMware View offers a personalized, device-neutral, end-user computing experience with increased security and control. It enables agile desktop solutions that quickly meet changing business needs and proactively protect against planned and unplanned downtime. This case study provides insight and information on how to increase availability and recoverability of a View infrastructure using VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and common disaster recovery (DR) tools and methodologies.
vCenter SRM automates the failover process of the VMware View management environment to enable fast, reliable recovery and meet specific Recovery Time Objectives (RTO).The architecture described here is an active/passive design, in which the entire View infrastructure operates within one datacenter until the failover scenario is invoked. This solution does not satisfy every use case or requirement for virtual desktop disaster recovery.
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Return on Investment (ROI), for example, were not evaluated during testing and implementation. However, this study does demonstrate a successfully tested DR solution for a View infrastructure that is easy to implement and support. Among the environments that can benefit from this solution are those that already include SRM and those where a virtual desktop use case has a definitive DR requirement.
Other solutions are possible for DR with VMware View, but they may be more complicated and less reliable. Although vCenter SRM is required for this specific solution, it is not a requirement for VMware View disaster recovery in general.
Link to the white paper: VMware View Infrastructure Resiliency VMware View 5 and VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
vCenter SRM automates the failover process of the VMware View management environment to enable fast, reliable recovery and meet specific Recovery Time Objectives (RTO).The architecture described here is an active/passive design, in which the entire View infrastructure operates within one datacenter until the failover scenario is invoked. This solution does not satisfy every use case or requirement for virtual desktop disaster recovery.
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Return on Investment (ROI), for example, were not evaluated during testing and implementation. However, this study does demonstrate a successfully tested DR solution for a View infrastructure that is easy to implement and support. Among the environments that can benefit from this solution are those that already include SRM and those where a virtual desktop use case has a definitive DR requirement.
Other solutions are possible for DR with VMware View, but they may be more complicated and less reliable. Although vCenter SRM is required for this specific solution, it is not a requirement for VMware View disaster recovery in general.
Link to the white paper: VMware View Infrastructure Resiliency VMware View 5 and VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
