Cisco Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance 11.5 White Paper
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White Paper
Geo-Redundancy for Cisco Prime Collaboration
Assurance and Analytics
Assurance and Analytics
Geo-Redundancy: Your key to Cisco Prime Collaboration Continuity
You’ve invested in an advanced, feature-rich communications platform. And thanks to Cisco Prime
™
Collaboration
Assurance a
nd Analytics, you’re able to gather critical data from that system and diagnose service-quality issues
before they become real problems. But even the most sophisticated platform can be affected by unexpected
failures. Natural disasters. Power outages. They can take a system down and keep you from delivering on your
commitments to customers. This white paper provides an overview and links to resources on how to avoid
downtime and “disaster-proof” your communications, even in the face of catastrophic events. It all hinges on
downtime and “disaster-proof” your communications, even in the face of catastrophic events. It all hinges on
geographical redundancy (geo-redundancy).
Simply put, geo-redundancy means running multiple instances of an application in geographically separate data
centers. This practice provides application and service continuity and helps ensure that a major storm in one part of
the country, for example, won’t shut down your operations.
the country, for example, won’t shut down your operations.
Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance and Analytics requires geo-redundancy to prevent service failures during
natural disasters or massive system outages such as power failures. The secret to geo-redundancy for Cisco
Prime Collaboration Assurance and Analytics is VMware vSphere replication.
What Is VMware vSphere Replication?
VMware vSphere replication is a data protection and disaster recovery solution that provides host-based,
asynchronous replication of virtual machines (VMs). It is fully integrated with VMware vCenter server and the
VMware vSphere web client. And because it uses a cold standby approach with manual failover, it copies only
changed blocks to the recovery site and uses very little bandwidth. vSphere replication can:
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Use a “seed copy” of virtual machine data during initial synchronization
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Help ensure efficient network usage by tracking changed disk areas and replicating only deltas
You can get further details on VMware vSphere replication by visiting
System Requirements
Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance and Analytics itself does not require any special configuration to enable
VMware vSphere replication. To enable the host-based replication in your virtual appliance environment, you need:
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VMware vSphere replication, distributed as a 64-bit virtual appliance and packaged in the ova format
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Dual-core CPU, 10-GB and 2-GB hard disks, and 4 GB of RAM
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ESXi host on a VMware vCenter server (5.x or later) - this is a virtual appliance deployed using the OVF
deployment wizard