6.1
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Requirements
- Evaluation Workflow
- Exercise 1: Pairing Sites
- Exercise 2: Configure Inventory Mappings
- Exercise 3: Configure placeholder datastore
- Exercise 4: Add Array Manager and Enable Array Pair (If Using Array Replication)
- Exercise 5: Create a Protection Group
- Exercise 6: Create a Recovery Plan
- Exercise 7: Testing a Recovery Plan
- Exercise 8: Running a Recovery Plan
- Exercise 9: Reprotect a Recovery Plan and Fail Back
- Exercise 10: Virtual Machine Recovery Properties
- Conclusion
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Conclusion
The primary features of Site Recovery Manager are covered in this evaluation guide. There are
additional items such as implementing Site Recovery Manager across multiple sites, automation
with VMware vRealize™ Orchestrator™, and integration with VMware vRealize Automation™ that
are not discussed. More details on these solutions can be found in VMware Documentation and
in other resources such as VMware Blogs and the VMware Knowledge Base.
Site Recovery Manager provides the following benefits:
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Lower cost of disaster recovery by up to 50% by reducing the x86 hardware footprint,
simplifying protection through VM-centric, policy-based replication, and decreasing
operational expenses.
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Non-disruptive testing enables more frequent disaster recovery rehearsals, which
minimizes risk.
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Recovery plans that can easily be updated and tested as new workloads are
provisioned.
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Flexibility to protect nearly any workload that runs in a virtual machine.
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Automated customization of virtual machines to further improve recovery times and
reduce risk.
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Detailed reporting to easily satisfy regulatory requirements for documentation of data
protection and disaster recovery plans.
Hopefully, it is clear how these benefits are achieved after completing the exercises in this
evaluation guide. More examples of how VMware customers have benefited from Site Recovery
Manager can be found in several customer success stories.