Specifications

23 Deploying VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager with NetApp FAS/V-Series Storage Systems
environment as described in the design section, then that network is selected as the test network for the
virtual machine network. No test network is necessary for the DR test bubble network itself, so it
remains set to Auto.
5. Next select virtual machines to suspend. SRM allows virtual machines that normally run local at the DR
site to be suspended when a recovery plan is executed. An example of using this feature might be
suspending development/test machines to free up compute resources at the DR site when a failover is
triggered.
6. Click Finish to close the dialog, and then review the Recovery Plan 1 Summary tab. The Status
indicates the protection group is “OK.”
7. Review the recovery plan just created. Note that SRM creates a Message step, which will pause the
recovery plan while DR tests are performed. It is during this pause that testing of the DR environment
functionality is performed within the DR test bubble network. The tests that would be performed depend
on the applications you want to protect with SRM and SnapMirror.