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Chapter 1 Overview of Site Recovery Manager

 CPUandmemoryqualityofserviceforrecoveredvirtualmachines—Each

virtualmachineisrecoveredinareconfiguredresourcepoolatthedestinationsite

sothatithasthecorrectCPUandmemoryresourcesatrecoverytime.Thisway,

youareensuredthattherecoveredvirtualmachinescandothework

expectedof

themwithouthavingtoprespecifyvirtualmachinetohostmappingsforeachof

hundredsofvirtualmachines.

 Predictablemanagementofrecoveredvirtualmachines—Virtualmachinesare

organizedintheVirtualCenterhierarchyattheremotesitesothatadministrators

canimmediatelyunderstandthepurposeofeachvirtualmachine.

 Instantupdates—Changestoyourrecoveryplanareinstantlyreflectedinthetest

andfailoverworkflows.

 Monitoringandalerts—SRMmonitorseventssuchasfailureoftheremotesiteto

respondorthestartandfinishofarecoverytest.Notificationsareprovidedinan

emailmessagetotheSRMsystemadministrator.

Site Recovery Manager Requirements

TouseSRM,thefollowingarerequired:

 VirtualCenterServerinstalledattheprotectedsiteandattherecoverysite

 Preconfiguredarray‐basedreplicationbetweentheprotectedsiteandthe

recoverysite

 NetworkconfigurationthatallowsTCPconnectivitybetweentheSRM

servers,VirtualCenterservers,andVirtualInfrastructureclients

 OracleorSQLServerdatabasesontheprotectedsiteandtherecoverysitethat

useODBCforconnectivitywithadedicateddatastoreforSRM

 SRMlicenseinstalledintheVirtualCenterlicenseserverattheprotectedsite

andattherecoverysite

Foradescriptionofminimumconfigurationrequirements,see“PrerequisitesforSRM

Installation”onpage 19.