System information

Site Recovery Manager and vSphere PowerCLI
VMware vSphere PowerCLI provides a Windows PowerShell interface for command-line access to
Site Recovery Manager tasks.
vSphere PowerCLI exposes the Site Recovery Manager APIs. You can use vSphere PowerCLI to
administrate Site Recovery Manager or to create scripts that automate Site Recovery Manager tasks.
For information about how to manage Site Recovery Manager by using vSphere PowerCLI, see the vSphere
PowerCLI documentation at https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/PowerCLI/.
Site Recovery Manager and vCenter Orchestrator
The vCenter Orchestrator plug-in for vCenter Site Recovery Manager allows you to automate certain
Site Recovery Manager operations by including them in vCenter Orchestrator workflows.
The vCenter Orchestrator plug-in for vCenter Site Recovery Manager includes actions and workflows that
run Site Recovery Manager operations. If you are a vCenter Orchestrator administrator, you can create
workflows that include the actions and workflows from the Site Recovery Manager plug-in. By including
Site Recovery Manager actions and workflows in vCenter Orchestrator workflows, you can combine
Site Recovery Manager operations with the automated operations that other vCenter Orchestrator plug-ins
provide.
For example, you can create a workflow that uses the actions and workflows of the vCenter Orchestrator
plug-in for vCenter Server to create and configure virtual machines and register them with vCenter Server.
In the same workflow, you can use the actions and workflows from the Site Recovery Manager plug-in to
create protection groups and protect the virtual machines as soon as they are created. You can also use
Site Recovery Manager actions and workflows to configure some of the recovery settings for the protected
virtual machines. Combining the vCenter Server and Site Recovery Manager actions and workflows in a
vCenter Orchestrator workflow thus allows you to automate the process of creating and protecting virtual
machines.
You can use the vCenter Orchestrator plug-in for vCenter Site Recovery Manager in a shared recovery site
configuration, in which you connect multiple Site Recovery Manager instances to a single vCenter Server
instance. You can also use the vCenter Orchestrator plug-in for vCenter Site Recovery Manager with
multiple Site Recovery Manager instances on multiple vCenter Server instances that are connected to the
same vCenter Single Sign-On server.
For information about creating workflows by using vCenter Orchestrator, see the vCenter Orchestrator
documentation.
For information about how to use the vCenter Orchestrator plug-in for vCenter Site Recovery Manager, see
the vCenter Orchestrator Plug-Ins Documentation.
Automated Operations That the vCenter Orchestrator Plug-In for
Site Recovery Manager Provides
With the vCenter Orchestrator plug-in for vCenter Site Recovery Manager, you can automate the creation of
your Site Recovery Manager infrastructure, to add virtual machines to protection groups, and to configure
the recovery settings of virtual machines.
With the vCenter Orchestrator plug-in for vCenter Site Recovery Manager you can protect virtual machines
by adding them to array-based replication or to vSphere Replication protection groups. The plug-in does not
automate the configuration of vSphere Replication on virtual machines. You must manually configure
vSphere Replication on virtual machines.
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