Customer Requirements:
You have been tasked with creating a vSphere 6.5 data center design for an organization. The organization has provided a number of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) requirements to meet their established Service Level Agreements (SLAs). The preliminary design will include two sites.
Production Site:
- 6 ESXi hosts in two clusters
- A Fiber Channel storage array with three types of storage:
1. Flash storage
2. 15K SAS drives with vFlash Read Cache
3. SATA drives in RAID 5 configuration
Secondary Site:
- 3 ESXi hosts in a single cluster
- A Fiber Channel storage array of the same type and with the same configuration as that of the production site The details of the organization's SLAs include:
- Gold: Maximize read/write storage performance and provide automated offsite recovery with an RPO < 15 minutes.
- Silver: Maximize read performance and provide automated offsite recovery with an RPO from 15 minutes to 24 hours.
- Bronze: No performance requirement. Onsite recovery with no specific RPO.
The organization has a number of web-based multi-tier applications that are governed by their SLAs. The workloads in these applications and their SLA assignments include:
- Database workloads - Gold
- Application workloads - Silver
- Web workloads - Bronze
Note that Web servers only contain static information that is site specific.
Design Requirements:
Create a design that incorporates the required elements:
- Place an SLA container for each of the appropriate SLAs into the appropriate sites.
- Place the appropriate storage type(s) for each SLA into the SLA container.
- Place the appropriate workload(s) into the SLA containers.
- Place the appropriate BCDR components into the SLA containers.
- Connect any replicated storage between the two sites using the appropriate replication connector.