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VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0
Evaluation Guide
The protected site configuration workflow involves the following activities:
into the vSphere Client. Otherwise, this activity can be skipped.
activities be performed in dierent clients connected to the protected and recovery sites.
correlated inventory containers at the recovery site.
The protection workflow involves the following activities:
folders in the protected site to their counterparts in the recovery site.
Failover and Testing Workflow
SRM automates many of the tasks required at failover. With the push of one button, SRM does the following:
protected virtual machines being failed over.
that protection groups will then be replicated from the recovery site, where the virtual machines will be
running, back to the original primary site.
recovery site.
migrate the environment back to its original location at the first site.