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Administering VMware vCenter Site
Recovery Manager 1
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager is a business continuity and disaster recovery solution that helps you
plan, test, and execute a scheduled migration or emergency failover of vCenter inventory from one site to
another.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Protected Sites and Recovery Sites,” on page 7
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“SRM and vCenter,” on page 13
Protected Sites and Recovery Sites
In a typical SRM installation, the protected site provides business-critical datacenter services. The recovery site
is an alternate facility to which these services can be migrated.
The protected site can be any site where vCenter supports a critical business need. The recovery site can be
located thousands of miles away or in the same room. The recovery site is usually located in a facility that is
unlikely to be affected by environmental, infrastructure, or other disturbances that affect the protected site.
SRM has the following requirements for the VMware vSphere
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configurations at each site:
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Each site must have at least one datacenter.
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The recovery site must support array-based replication with the protected site.
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The recovery site must have hardware, network, and storage resources that can support the same virtual
machines and workloads as the protected site.
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At least one virtual machine must be located on a replicated datastore at the protected site. This datastore
must be supported by a storage array that is compatible with SRM.
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The sites should be connected by a reliable IP network (storage arrays might have additional network
requirements).
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The recovery site should have access to the same networks (public and private) as the protected site,
although not necessarily the same range of network addresses.
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