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Table Of Contents
- Administration Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Overview of Site Recovery Manager
- System Requirements
- Installing or Updating Site Recovery Manager
- Managing SRM
- Protected Site Configuration
- Recovery Site Configuration
- Failback
- Alerting and Monitoring
- Protected and Recovery Site Changes
- Preinstallation Checklist
- Failback Checklist
- Use the srm-config command to repair an SRM server connection
- Avoiding Replication of Paging Files and Other Transient Data
- Glossary
- Index
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Adisasterisanyeventthathaltsbusinessactivityonalargescale.Adisasterthataffects
ITresourcescouldmeanbusinessdowntimewhileyourecoverdataandvalidate
systemsforuse.
Thecatastrophiceffectsofadisasteraremitigatedifyouareprepared.WithVMware
SiteRecoveryManager,youcan
quicklyrestoreyourorganization’sITinfrastructure,
dramaticallyshorteningthelengthoftimethatyouexperienceabusinessoutage.
ThischapterintroducesSRMandincludesthefollowingtopics:
“VMwareInfrastructureSupportsSiteRecoveryManager”onpage 9
“SiteRecoveryManagerFeatures”onpage 10
“SiteRecoveryManagerRequirements”onpage 11
“SiteRecoveryManagerEnvironment”onpage 12
“SiteRecoveryManagerProcessOverview”onpage 14
VMware Infrastructure Supports Site Recovery Manager
ThefollowingfeaturesofVMwareInfrastructuresupportSRM:
Encapsulation—Virtualmachinesareencapsulatedintoagroupoffilesinshared
storage.
Bootfromsharedstorage—Replicationofthesharedstoragemeansyouhavefully
replicatedhardware‐independentvirtualmachinesreadytopoweronasneeded.
Overview of Site Recovery
Manager
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