Overview of RP4VM
Before we discuss the design of RP4VM, we will provide an overview of it. Figure 9.1 shows the RP4VM system architecture with the vSphere HTML5 plugin:
Figure 9.1 – RP4VM system architecture with the vSphere HTML5 plugin
RP4VM includes the following components:
- VMware vCenter Server: This central management dashboard provides all operation tasks for RP4VM.
- RecoverPoint for VMs cluster: Each RP4VM cluster consists of a minimum of one Virtual RecoverPoint Appliance (vRPA) and a maximum of eight vRPAs. This cluster is used to manage the data replication tasks.
- Splitter: The RP4VM splitter is installed on each VMware ESXi host. It splits the write tasks coming from the ESXi host and sends them to the vRPA and the VM’s VM disk file (VMDK). The vRPA cluster handles all network traffic to journals and replicas.
- RecoverPoint for VMs HTML5 plugin: This is the user interface to manage the RP4VM system. The RP4VM 5.3...
