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Module 3 Chapter 3 Remote Replication

Remote replication creates copies of data at remote sites to address risks from regional outages. There are two modes: synchronous, where writes must commit to the source and target before acknowledging to the host; and asynchronous, where writes commit immediately to the source and transmit later to the target. Remote replication can be host-based, storage array-based, or network-based.

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Module 3 Chapter 3 Remote Replication

Remote replication creates copies of data at remote sites to address risks from regional outages. There are two modes: synchronous, where writes must commit to the source and target before acknowledging to the host; and asynchronous, where writes commit immediately to the source and transmit later to the target. Remote replication can be host-based, storage array-based, or network-based.

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Module 3 Chapter 3

Remote replication
What is Remote Replication?
• Process of creating replicas at remote sites
– Addresses risk associated with regionally driven outages
• Modes of remote replication
– Synchronous
– Asynchronous

REPLICATION

Storage Array – Source site Storage Array – Remote site

Module 12: Remote Replication 2


Remote replication
• Remote replication is the process to create
replicas of information assets at remote sites
(locations).
• Remote replication helps organizations mitigate
the risks associated with regionally driven
outages resulting from natural or human-made
disasters.
• During disasters, the workload can be moved to a
remote site to ensure continuous business
operation.
Modes of Remote Replication
• Synchronous
• Asynchronous
Synchronous remote replication
• In synchronous remote replication, writes must
be committed to the source and remote replica
(or target), prior to acknowledging “write
complete” to the host .
• Additional writes on the source cannot occur
until each preceding write has been completed
and acknowledged.
• This ensures that data is identical on the source
and replica at all times.
Asynchronous remote replication

• In asynchronous remote replication, a write is


committed to the source and immediately
acknowledged to the host.
• In this mode, data is buffered at the source and
transmitted to the remote site later.
• Asynchronous replication eliminates the impact to the
application’s response time because the writes are
acknowledged immediately to the source host.
• This enables deployment of asynchronous replication
over distances ranging from several hundred to several
thousand kilometers between the primary and remote
sites.
12.2 Remote Replication Technologies

• Host-Based Remote Replication


LVM-based remote replication
Host-Based Log Shipping
• Storage Array-Based Remote Replication
Synchronous Replication Mode
Asynchronous Replication Mode
Disk-Buffered Replication Mode
• Network-Based Remote Replication
CDP Remote Replication
Host-Based Remote Replication

• Host-based remote replication uses the host


resources to perform and manage the
replication operation.
• There are two basic approaches to host-based
remote replication:
• Logical volume manager (LVM) based
replication and database replication via log
shipping.
LVM-Based Remote Replication
Host-Based Log Shipping
Storage Array-Based Remote Replication
• In storage array-based remote replication, the array-
operating environment and resources perform and manage
data replication.
• This relieves the burden on the host CPUs, which can be
better used for applications running on the host.
• A source and its replica device reside on different storage
arrays.
• Data can be transmitted from the source storage array to the
target storage array over a shared or a dedicated network.
• Replication between arrays may be performed in
synchronous, asynchronous, or disk-buffered modes.
Synchronous Replication Mode
Asynchronous Replication Mode
Disk-Buffered Replication Mode
Network-Based Remote Replication

• In network-based remote replication, the


replication occurs at the network layer
between the host and storage array.
• Continuous data protection technology,
provides solutions for network-based remote
replication.
Continuous data protection
Host

Write Splitter

SAN SAN/ SAN


Production WAN
Volume Local Remote
CDP Appliance CDP Appliance
Source
Storage Array

CDP Journal Replica

Remote
Storage Array
Three-Site Replication
• In a three-site replication, data from the source
site is replicated to two remote sites.
• Replication can be synchronous to one of the
two sites, providing a near zero-RPO solution,
and it can be asynchronous or disk buffered to
the other remote site, providing a finite RPO.
• Three-site remote replication can be
implemented as a cascade/multi hop or a
triangle/multi target solution.
Three-Site Replication - Cascade/Multi hop
• In the cascade/multi hop three-site replication, data
flows from the source to the intermediate storage array,
known as a bunker, in the first hop, and then from a
bunker to a storage array at a remote site in the second
hop.
• Replication between the source and the remote sites
can be performed in two ways: synchronous +
asynchronous or synchronous + disk buffered.
• Replication between the source and bunker occurs
synchronously, but replication between the bunker and
the remote site can be achieved either as disk-buffered
mode or asynchronous mode.
Synchronous + Asynchronous
synchronous + disk buffered
12.3.2 Three-Site Replication —
Triangle/Multi target
Remote Replication and Migration in a
Virtualized Environment

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