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Site Recovery Manager Administration Guide
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 VMwareDistributedResourceScheduler(DRS)andresourcepools—VMware
DRSallocatesandbalancescomputingcapacityacrossresourcepoolstomatch
availableITresources.Youdonotneedtodeterminetheplacementofrecovery
virtualmachinesinadvanceofafailover.
 Hardwareindependence—Usingvirtualmachines,recoveryfailuresarenearly
zerobecauseanyvirtualmachinecanberebootedfromanypieceofhardware
withouttheneedtofixdrivers.
 Instantrepurposing—Withouttheconstraintofsystemreinstallation,hardware
canperformcompletelydifferentwork,perhapsonacompletelydifferent
operatingsystem,inamatterofminutes.
 VirtualLocalAreaNetworks(VLANs)—VirtualLANsallowyoutoisolate
networktrafficforvirtualmachines,sotestingcanbenondisruptive.
 Changecontrolandauditability—ThechangecontrolfeaturesofVMware
Infrastructurehelpyoumanageyourdisasterrecoverystrategy.Tasktracking
allowsyoutoviewchangestoSRM.
Site Recovery Manager Features
SiteRecoveryManagerisadisasterrecoveryworkflowproductthatautomatessetup,
failover,andtestingofdisasterrecoveryplans.
 Preparedresponsereduceserror—SRMhelpsyoureducethepossibilityofhuman
errorifadisasteroccurs,becauseyourrecoverystrategyismappedout,tested,and
rehearsed.
 Nondisruptivetests—Recoveryplantestingusingarraysnapshotsandisolated
networktrafficwithanalternateVLANallowsyoutotestwithoutinterrupting
dailyproductionworkflows.
 Leveragedstorage—SRMisintegratedwitharraybasedreplicationtoeliminate
configurationerrorsonsetupthatareeasytomakeotherwise,andusuallyhave
dramaticimplications.
 Networkreconfigurationofrecoveredvirtualmachines—Eachvirtualmachineis
connectedtothecorrectVLANandreconfiguredwithguestIPsettingsthatare
presetinSRM,whichmeansthatyoudonothavetomanuallyreconfigureeach
virtualmachineatrecoverytime.