SILVER PEAK ACCELERATION WITH EMC VSPEX PRIVATE CLOUD WITH RECOVERPOINT FOR VMWARE VSPHERE

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VSPEX IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE SILVER PEAK ACCELERATION WITH EMC VSPEX PRIVATE CLOUD WITH RECOVERPOINT FOR VMWARE VSPHERE Silver Peak Abstract This Implementation Guide describes the deployment of Silver Peak replication acceleration with EMC VSPEX Private Cloud with RecoverPoint for VMware vsphere. April, 2014

Contents Copyright 2014 Silver Peak Systems, Inc. Silver Peak Systems, the Silver Peak logo, Network Memory, and Silver Peak NX-Series are trademarks of Silver Peak Systems, Inc. EMC 2, EMC, the EMC logo, VSPEX are registered trademarks or trademarks of EMC Corporation in the United States and other countries. 2

Contents Contents Chapter 1 Introduction 6 Purpose of this guide... 6 Business value... 6 Scope... 7 Audience... 7 Terminology... 7 Solution tested... 7 Chapter 2 Solution Architecture Overview 8 Solution Overview... 8 Silver Peak VXOA Overview... 8 Architecture... 8 Sizing... 9 Obtaining Silver Peak Software... 10 When Should Silver Peak be Deployed with RecoverPoint... 10 Chapter 3 Implementation Process Overview 11 Before You Begin... 11 Chapter 4 Installation and Configuration 12 Silver Peak VRX Installation... 12 Deploy the Velocity Replication Accelerator OVF template... 12 Establish Connectivity to the Virtual Appliance... 14 Complete the Appliance Manager Initial Configuration Wizard... 15 Silver Peak Best Practices... 17 Encryption... 17 Correcting Loss... 17 RecoverPoint Configuration... 18 Add a New Default Gateway... 18 Chapter 5 Validating Silver Peak Operation 20 Measuring Performance with Silver Peak... 20 Silver Peak Performance... 20 Chapter 6 Testing and Validation 21 Silver Peak Testing and Validation with RecoverPoint... 21 Test Methodology... 21 Test Suite Overview... 21 3

Contents vrpa Test Results... 21 RPA Test Results... 23 RecoverPoint Throughput across Multiple Latencies... 24 Appendix A USEFUL LINKS 25 Appendix B IP Configuration Worksheet 26 Figures Figure 1. RecoverPoint and Silver Peak Solution Overview... 8 Figure 2. Silver Peak VXOA Architecture... 9 Figure 3. VMware vsphere client... 12 Figure 4. Adding storage for the Silver Peak virtual machine... 13 Figure 5. Selecting storage type... 13 Figure 6. Mapping network to network adapter... 13 Figure 7. Finish Silver Peak OVF deployment... 14 Figure 8. Power on Silver Peak virtual machine... 14 Figure 9. Silver Peak console... 15 Figure 10. Silver Peak DHCP... 15 Figure 11. Silver Peak static IP address... 15 Figure 12. Silver Peak appliance manager login... 16 Figure 13. Silver Peak configuration wizard... 16 Figure 14. Silver Peak Modify Tunnel Window... 17 Figure 15. Silver Peak WAN Loss % Chart... 17 Figure 16. Accelerated Data Flow Diagram... 18 Figure 17. RecoverPoint login... 19 Figure 18. RecoverPoint Gateway Configuration... 19 Figure 19. RecoverPoint IP Version... 19 Figure 20. Confirm RecoverPoint New Gateway... 19 Figure 21. Silver Peak Flow Performance... 20 Figure 22. Silver Peak Throughput Chart... 20 Figure 23. vrpa/vrx-4 Test Environment... 22 Figure 24. vrpa Test Results with 0.1% Loss... 22 Figure 25. vrpa Test Results with 1% Loss... 22 Figure 26. RPA/VRX-8 Test Environment... 23 Figure 27. RPA Test Results with 0.1% Loss... 23 Figure 28. RPA Test Results with 1% Loss... 24 Figure 29. RPA Throughput across Multiple Latencies... 24 4

Contents Tables Table 1. Terminology... 7 Table 2. Silver Peak Replication Accelerator Models... 9 5

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 1 Introduction Purpose of this guide This document provides detailed configuration steps and best practices for deploying Silver Peak replication acceleration software with EMC RecoverPoint for data protection across any network. This document builds on the VSPEX Proven Architecture for RecoverPoint, EMC document #H12298. Test and validation results are also included in Chapter 6. Business value EMC RecoverPoint is a data protection solution that provides local, and remote continuous data protection, allowing for any point-in-time data recovery. In the event of data loss, or corruption, data can be recovered across arrays and applications to a consistent state. This allows applications to be quickly restarted, resulting in shorter downtime. The VSPEX Private Cloud solution for VMware vsphere with EMC VNX and EMC RecoverPoint is a highly scalable, building block solution that has been validated for configurations up thousands of virtual machines. While EMC RecoverPoint provides an efficient replication solution, it is subject to limitations created by the Wide Area Network (WAN). When the WAN connecting the two replication units has latency, packet loss or out-of-order, or limited bandwidth, replication throughput can be adversely affected causing missed Recovery Point Objectives and potentially failed replication. Either of these expose the business to additional risk in the event or a recovery to the replica. Silver Peak develops data center class replication acceleration software that fixes the problems that exist on the WAN, enabling more data to be replicated, in less time, and over longer distances. Silver Peak s Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture (VXOA) can be deployed as virtual software (VX or VRX) on any hypervisor or as a hardware appliance (NX). VXOA solves WAN problems by deduplicating and compressing replication traffic, repairing dropped and outof-order packets, and overcoming the effects of latency. When combined with VSPEX for RecoverPoint, Silver Peak software enables customers to meet their RPOs regardless of WAN bandwidth, latency, or quality. 6

Chapter 1 Introduction Scope This guide is limited to the installation and configuration of the Silver Peak software, and changes that need to be made to a functioning RecoverPoint environment. This document does not cover the installation or initial configuration of RecoverPoint. For more information on deploying RecoverPoint please see the EMC VSPEX with EMC RecoverPoint for VMware vsphere 5.5 Design and Implementation Guide. Audience This document is intended for storage architects, IT engineers, storage administrators, professional services engineers, virtual administrators, and SAN administrators. Terminology This Implementation Guide includes the following terminology. Table 1. Terminology Term RPO vrpa RPA VXOA VRX FEC LAN WAN CRR Description Recovery Point Objective Virtual RecoverPoint Appliance RecoverPoint Appliance Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture Velocity Replication Accelerator Forward Error Correction Local Area Network Wide Area Network RecoverPoint Continuous Remote Replication Solution tested Silver Peak and EMC tested a combination of Silver Peak VRX replication acceleration software with physical and virtual RecoverPoint appliances replicating across simulated WAN connections with varying amounts of packet loss and latency. For more information on the test environment see Appendix A. 7

Chapter 2 Solution Architecture Overview Chapter 2 Solution Architecture Overview Solution Overview Silver Peak software is deployed as a virtual machine on the LAN. While Silver Peak software supports deployment across several hypervisors, this document focuses on VMware. When deployed with RecoverPoint, Silver Peak uses a single IP address and network connection to accelerate RecoverPoint replication, CRR. For this deployment no network changes need to be made, as all redirection will be performed by the RecoverPoint appliance. RecoverPoint RecoverPoint VNX 1 VMware vsphere VMware vsphere VNX Primary Data Center Secondary Data Center Figure 1. RecoverPoint and Silver Peak Solution Overview Silver Peak VXOA Overview Architecture Silver Peak provides a robust WAN optimization solution that addresses the bandwidth, latency, and packet loss issues that are common to most enterprise environments. Silver Peak's optimization techniques are all performed in real-time and primarily at the network (IP) layer to ensure maximum performance across the widest range of applications and WAN environments. 8

Figure 2. Silver Peak VXOA Architecture Chapter 2 Solution Architecture Overview Silver Peak appliances leverage the following Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture (VXOA) technology components to accelerate all enterprise applications in a secure and reliable fashion: Network Memory: Silver Peak's solution for disk-based WAN deduplication. Network Memory inspects all traffic that is sent between clients and servers, storing information as a local instance in Silver Peak appliances. Repetitive information is delivered locally rather than sent across the WAN, improving application performance and WAN utilization. Cross-flow payload and header compression provide additional gains on first-time data transfers and nonrepetitive traffic. Network Integrity: Silver Peak employs a variety of real-time techniques to address packet delivery issues common to shared WAN technologies such as MPLS and Internet connections. These include adaptive Forward Error Correction (FEC) and Packet Order Correction (POC) to overcome dropped and out-of-order packets, and advanced Quality of Service (QoS) techniques to prioritize traffic and guarantee network resources. Network Acceleration: Silver Peak mitigates the impacts of latency across the WAN by using various TCP acceleration techniques, like adjustable window sizing and selective acknowledgements. These tools help to overcome inherent chattiness that can otherwise hamper application performance across a WAN. Encryption: Silver Peak can encrypt network traffic using an AES-256 IPsec VPN. Any traffic sent between Silver Peak software instances can be accelerated and encrypted at wire speed. Virtual Deployment Options: Silver Peak can be deployed as a physical appliance (NX) or a virtual instance (VX/VRX). Silver Peak s virtual products can be deployed on any hypervisor (VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Xen, and KVM) and on any server hardware that meets the minimum requirements. Sizing VRX replication acceleration software is typically sized based on the available WAN bandwidth for data protection traffic, including replication, backup, and data migration. Each VRX model has a limit on the amount of WAN bandwidth that it will support. The VXOA software that powers VRX can also be limited in the amount of bandwidth that will be used on the WAN. For example, if you have 100 Mbps of WAN bandwidth, but only 40 Mbps is available for replication traffic, a VRX-4 will be used with a configured system rate limit of 40 Mbps. This allows the VRX-4 to take in as much data as possible, optimize the data, and then transmit up to the rate limit across the WAN. Table 2. Silver Peak Replication Accelerator Models Silver Peak Model VRX-2 VRX-4 VRX-6 VRX-8 WAN Throughput 20 Mbps 100 Mbps 300 Mbps 1 Gbps Average Accelerated Data Throughput 50 GBph 250 GBph 750 GBph 2 TBph 9

Chapter 2 Solution Architecture Overview Silver Peak also offers a full range of WAN optimization options that can be deployed as virtual or physical appliances. More information of Silver Peak s WAN optimization products is available at Silver-peak.com. Obtaining Silver Peak Software All of Silver Peak s software options are available on the Silver Peak marketplace with a 30 day free trial. When Should Silver Peak be Deployed with RecoverPoint Based on the testing and validation performed, we recommend that Silver Peak replication acceleration software be deployed with RecoverPoint in the following scenarios: The WAN has 40 ms or higher of latency, with packet loss of 0.1% or higher WAN latency is greater than 150 ms with less than 0.1% packet loss The WAN is shared with other data protection, or end user applications A vrpa is deployed on a server without sufficient resources to enable RecoverPoint deduplication and compression The RPA/vRPA consistently enters a high load state due to WAN problems, or high CPU utilization from deduplication and compression 10

Chapter 3 Implementation Process Overview Chapter 3 Implementation Process Overview Before You Begin The following items should be completed before beginning installation: Comply with the Velocity Replication Accelerator (VRX) Host System Requirements. The current version is available on the Silver Peak User Documentation portal. Download the virtual appliance OVF template file: For a 30-day free trial, go to the Silver Peak Marketplace. If you have already purchased the software, log in to the Silver Peak Support portal to download the installation file. Obtain a Velocity Replication Accelerator (VRX) activation license key A static IP address is recommended for the Silver Peak appliance Complete the IP Configuration Worksheet in Appendix B 11

Chapter 4 Installation and Configuration Chapter 4 Installation and Configuration This chapter describes the process of installing the Silver Peak replication acceleration software in a VMware vsphere environment, and the configuration of EMC RecoverPoint for use with the Silver Peak software. Silver Peak VRX Installation Deploy the Velocity Replication Accelerator OVF template 1. Launch the vsphere client and enter the IP address for the VMware vsphere host. Figure 3. VMware vsphere client 2. From the File menu, select Deploy OVF Template, and follow the steps in the wizard. Note: On the Name and Location page, we changed the virtual appliance s default name to MySilverPeak, to make this example more generic. 3. When the Storage page appears, verify that the storage you select meets the requirements specified in the Velocity Replication Accelerator Host System Requirements, available on the Silver Peak User Documentation Portal. 12

Chapter 4 Installation and Configuration Figure 4. Adding storage for the Silver Peak virtual machine 4. On the Disk Format page, select Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed. Figure 5. Selecting storage type 5. The Network Mapping page defaults to selecting VM Network. If this is not appropriate for you environment, select the network that is correct. Note that the network adapter associated with the Network you select must be on the same subnet as the RecoverPoint appliance, RPA or vrpa. Figure 6. Mapping network to network adapter 6. When the Ready to Complete page appears, go to the bottom of the page and click Finish. 13

Chapter 4 Installation and Configuration Figure 7. Finish Silver Peak OVF deployment 7. The Silver Peak appliance will now be deployed. Establish Connectivity to the Virtual Appliance 1. In the vsphere Client, select the newly deployed virtual appliance and click to power it on. Figure 8. Power on Silver Peak virtual machine 2. Click the Console tab. The Silver Peak Console User Interface appears. 14

Chapter 4 Installation and Configuration Figure 9. Silver Peak console 3. The next task is to determine the virtual appliance s IP address. Silver Peak recommends using a static IP address for all VRX replication acceleration deployments. A static IP address prevents the IP address from changing and disrupting replication. a. If you are using DHCP, the virtual appliance IP address displays in Silver Peak s Console User Interface. Follow the steps below to change to a static IP address. Figure 10. Silver Peak DHCP b. If you are not using DHCP, Then you must configure the static IP address and default gateway. Figure 11. Silver Peak static IP address i. In the virtual appliance console, press function key F4, and complete the remaining steps. ii. iii. When prompted to choose the type of management interface, select Static. After selecting Apply, you can review the settings by selecting function key F2. c. To verify connectivity, press function key F1, and enter the following commands: i. [vrx-appliance]> enable [ENTER] ii. iii. [vrx-appliance]> show ip default-gateway [ENTER] [vrx-appliance]> ping <default-gateway> [ENTER] To stop the ping enter CTRL-C You are now ready to complete the Silver Peak virtual appliance initial configuration wizard. Complete the Appliance Manager Initial Configuration Wizard 1. In a web browser, enter the IP address that you discovered or configured in the console. The Silver Peak Appliance Management Console login page appears. 15

Chapter 4 Installation and Configuration Figure 12. Silver Peak appliance manager login 2. For both the User Name and Password, enter admin. The initial configuration wizard will start. Figure 13. Silver Peak configuration wizard 3. Complete the remaining steps in the wizard. 4. On the final step in the wizard, click Apply. When the virtual appliances asks to reboot, click allow. The appliance will reboot and the Appliance Manager will return to the login page. 16

Chapter 4 Installation and Configuration Silver Peak Best Practices Encryption Silver Peak can optionally encrypt all traffic sent between appliances using an AES 256 IPsec VPN. IPsec is configured on a per tunnel basis, allowing some sites to be IPsec-encrypted while others are not. To configure IPsec select the tunnel that is being used to send replication traffic by clicking on Configuration > Tunnels in the Silver Peak appliance manager. Click the name of the tunnel to open the Modify Tunnel screen. In the Modify Tunnel screen, select ipsec for the Mode, and enter an IPSec Preshare Key. The Key can be any text string, and must be the same on each end of the tunnel. Figure 14. Silver Peak Modify Tunnel Window Correcting Loss Forward Error Correction, FEC, is a tunnel option that is used to recover lost packets on the WAN in real time without requiring the data to be resent. Realtime packet loss can be measured in the Silver Peak appliance manager, Figure 14. Figure 15. Silver Peak WAN Loss % Chart When there is evidence of consistent packet loss on the WAN, a FEC setting of enable with a ratio of 1:5 is recommended. By using a FEC setting of enable 17

Chapter 4 Installation and Configuration with a ratio of 1:5, packet loss across the WAN will be corrected, increasing overall replication throughput. When packet loss is rare or intermittent, FEC should be set to auto with a ratio of 1:5. Auto will allow VXOA to dynamically control the amount of parity packets that are injected into the data stream, with the upper limit capped by the chosen Ratio value (1:5). For WANs that have zero packet loss, FEC can be set to auto or off. Off should only be used when there is no chance for bandwidth contention or dropped packets. When a setting of off is used, packet loss should be carefully monitored in the VXOA GUI. FEC is configured per tunnel, like IPsec. To configure FEC, open the Modify Tunnel window by clicking on Configuration > Tunnels in the Silver Peak appliance manager. Change FEC to enable or auto, and change Ratio depending on the amount of loss present. Table 3. Recommended FEC Settings WAN Loss FEC Setting FEC Ratio 0.1% or less Auto 1:10 Greater than 0.1% enable 1:5 RecoverPoint Configuration Add a New Default Gateway To redirect RecoverPoint replication traffic to the Silver Peak replication acceleration software we will be adding a static route, or gateway, to each RPA or vrpa that is replicating to the remote site. In a traditional deployment, the WAN router is the default gateway for all traffic leaving the local network. For this deployment the Silver Peak IP address, configured in the previous steps, will be used. By using the Silver Peak IP address, we can eliminate changes to the network router or switches. Ethernet or Fibre Channel Adapter WAN Port Silver Peak 1 / 10 Gb Ethernet From Storage Array RecoverPoint Appliance RecoverPoint Replication Traffic to Silver Peak Silver Peak Accelerated RecoverPoint Replication To Remote Site Figure 16. Accelerated Data Flow Diagram 18

Chapter 4 Installation and Configuration 1. Connect to the RPA/vRPA via ssh, or a console connection window in VMware. 2. Login as boxmgmt with the appropriate password. Figure 17. RecoverPoint login 3. After logging in as boxmgmt, select the following menu items to add a new gateway. Setup > Modify Settings > Cluster Details > Connectivity Settings > Gateways configuration. 4. From the Gateways configuration menu select View cluster gateways. Note the gateways displayed. 5. Next, select Add a gateway. Figure 18. RecoverPoint Gateway Configuration 6. Select IPv4 for the network interface IP version. Figure 19. RecoverPoint IP Version 7. Enter the IP address of the Silver Peak appliance as the gateway IP. 8. Enter the network mas and subnet the remote RPA/vRPA. 9. Enter y to confirm and apply the new gateway. Figure 20. Confirm RecoverPoint New Gateway 10. Select View cluster gateways from the Gateways configuration menu and verify the new gateway has been entered. 19

Chapter 5 Validating Silver Peak Operation Chapter 5 Validating Silver Peak Operation To determine if the Silver Peak software is accelerating RecoverPoint, the Silver Peak element manager will be used to view RecoverPoint replication traffic. Measuring Performance with Silver Peak Silver Peak Performance Log in to the Silver Peak appliance manager and select Application View. For each RecoverPoint appliance that is sending replication traffic, there will be an entry that lists the IP address for the sending and receiving appliances, as well as the port numbers in use across the network. The status of the flow is also listed, and should be OPTIMIZED. The amount of data sent and received is listed as Outbound and Inbound, along with the reduction % that the Silver Peak software is able to achieve. Finally the Up Time for the flow is displayed, this value helps to determine how active the replication is and how long it has been sending data. Figure 21. Silver Peak Flow Performance Additional information is available for the amount of data that has been sent across the WAN by looking to the Outbound Data section of the Application View. Outbound data displays the top 5 applications that have been accelerated over the last 60 minutes, 24 hours, or 10 days. This data is useful to determine if something has changed in the environment and RecoverPoint is sending more or less data than is typically sent. Figure 22. Silver Peak Throughput Chart The Network View is also useful to determine the health of the WAN. The Network View displays the bandwidth usage across the WAN, The Top Applications accelerated, the minimum, average and peak latency and also the pre and post FEC loss. 20

Chapter 6 Testing and Validation Chapter 6 Testing and Validation This appendix details the testing and validation process that was used for Silver Peak and RecoverPoint. Silver Peak Testing and Validation with RecoverPoint Test Methodology A dedicated test environment was deployed to test deployment scenarios across several WAN configurations with varying latency and loss. Testing was performed with physical RecoverPoint Appliances (RPA) and virtual RecoverPoint Appliances (vrpa). For physical RPA testing, Silver Peak VRX-8 software running on VMware vsphere was used for acceleration Figure 2. While testing with the vrpa, Silver Peak VRX-4 software was used for acceleration. Using the VRX-4 allowed the vrpa and VRX-4 to run on the same VMware vsphere instance, providing a single server solution for data protection. Test Suite Overview The following components were used for RecoverPoint RPA and vrpa testing with Silver Peak. Table 4. Test Suite Details Device/Tool Name Version RecoverPoint SE RPA, vrpa 4.0.SP1 (k.137) Source Array VNX 5800 CLARiiON Splitter Target Array VNX 7600 Version 5.33.000.5.015 Silver Peak Appliances VRX-8, VRX-4 VXOA 6.2.0.0_46411 WAN Emulator KWANEM 52909 During testing, the following bandwidth, latency, and loss parameters were used. Table 5. Bandwidths Tested Bandwidth Tested Latencies Tested Loss Percent Tested RPA 1 Gbps 0, 20, 40, 60, 80, 120, 160, 200, 300 ms 0, 0.1, 1% vrpa 100 Mbps 0, 40, 80 120 ms 0, 0.1, 1% vrpa Test Results All vrpa testing was performed using a single server to host the vrpa and the VRX-4 software. Performance across latencies, with packet loss of 0.1% and 1%, is consistent when Silver Peak is used to accelerate the replication traffic. Without Silver Peak, RecoverPoint throughput is reduced by the combination 21

Chapter 6 Testing and Validation of packet loss and latency. Figure 24 shows replication throughput from the vrpa with 0.1% packet loss, while Figure 25 shows vrpa throughput with 1% packet loss. In both charts, Silver Peak helps RecoverPoint maintain a consistent throughput for replication, even with packet loss and latency. Figure 23. vrpa/vrx-4 Test Environment VRPA REPLICATION THROUGHPUT 0.1% LOSS Unaccelerated Accelerated MBPS 32 23 91 88 99 99 99 99 0 MS 40 MS 80 MS 120 MS LATENCY Figure 24. vrpa Test Results with 0.1% Loss VRPA REPLICATION THROUGHPUT 1% LOSS Unaccelerated Accelerated 0 0 MBPS 45 91 99 99 99 99 0 MS 40 MS 80 MS 120 MS LATENCY Figure 25. vrpa Test Results with 1% Loss 22

Chapter 6 Testing and Validation RPA Test Results Physical RPA testing shows similar results to vrpa testing. RecoverPoint replication throughput is reduced on WAN connections that have latency and packet loss present. As latency increases, throughput decreases. With high levels of packet loss (1%), and high latency (greater than 80 ms), the RPA enters a high load state and is unable to maintain replication. Default configuration options were used for this testing, however tuning options are available to reduce high load states albeit at a reduced throughput. When Silver Peak software is deployed with RecoverPoint, replication throughput is maintained even when high levels of packet loss and latency are present on the WAN. Figure 27 shows replication throughput with 0.1% packet loss, typical of an MPLS network, with varying latency. Figure 28 shows replication throughput with 1% packet loss, typical of an Internet connection, with varying levels of latency. Ethernet Ethernet RPA VRX-8 WAN Emulator VRX-8 RPA Fibre Channel Traffic Generator Fibre Channel VNX VNX Source Target Figure 26. RPA/VRX-8 Test Environment RPA REPLICATION THROUGHPUT 0.1% LOSS Unaccelerated Accelerated MBPS 150 102 386 378 372 370 0 MS 80 MS 100 MS LATENCY Figure 27. RPA Test Results with 0.1% Loss 23

Chapter 6 Testing and Validation RPA REPLICATION THROUGHPUT 1% LOSS Unaccelerated Accelerated 0 0 MBPS 357 372 370 368 0 MS 80 MS 200 MS LATENCY Figure 28. RPA Test Results with 1% Loss RecoverPoint Throughput across Multiple Latencies Figure 29 demonstrates the ability for Silver Peak software to maintain throughput with RecoverPoint software up to 300 ms of latency. Silver Peak s acceleration techniques enable replication in environments that were difficult without acceleration. RECOVERPOINT REPLICATION THROUGHPUT WITH 0.1% LOSS Unaccelerated Accelerated 0 0 MBPS 150 148 102 386 378 372 378 371 378 355 376 294 375 371 371 370 368 367 0 MS 20 MS 30 MS 40 MS 50 MS 60 MS 80 MS 100 MS LATENCY 200 MS 300 MS Figure 29. RPA Throughput across Multiple Latencies 24

Appendix A Useful Links Appendix A USEFUL LINKS Silver Peak Marketplace - http://marketplace.silver-peak.com/ Silver Peak support and documentation - http://www.silver-peak.com/support EMC Support and documentation https://support.emc.com/ RecoverPoint documentation https://support.emc.com/products/1226_recoverpoint-cl 25

Appendix B IP Configuration Worksheet Appendix B IP Configuration Worksheet Primary Site Silver Peak IP: Replication Bandwidth: Wan Router: Remote RPA IP addresses: Remote Subnet Mask: Secondary Site Silver Peak IP: Replication Bandwidth: Wan Router: Remote RPA IP addresses: Remote Subnet Mask: 26