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Introduction
Site Recovery Manager a site migration and disaster recovery solution from VMware. It is fully
integrated with VMware vCenter Server™ and VMware vSphere® Web Client. Site Recovery
Manager provides orchestration and non-disruptive testing of centralized recovery plans. Site
Recovery Manager works in conjunction with various replication solutions including VMware
vSphere Replication™ to automate the process of migrating and recovering virtual machine
workloads.
Multiple recovery plans can be configured to migrate individual applications and entire sites
providing finer control over what virtual machines are failed over and failed back. This also
enables flexible testing schedules. For example, one application owner requires quarterly
disaster recovery testing while another application owner must test once per month. This is
easily accomplished with Site Recovery Manager.
Sites that share stretched storage can take advantage of zero-downtime virtual machine
migrations. Site Recovery manager can orchestrate the live migration of virtual machines using
Cross-vCenter vMotion also known as “Long Distance vMotion.”
Storage policy protection groups enable automatic protection of virtual machines residing on
array-replicated storage. Items such as networks, folders, and resource pools are mapped
between sites in Site Recovery Manager to further automate the migration and recovery of
virtual machines between sites. Utilizing VMware NSX™ universal logical switches with Site
Recovery Manager enables automatic mapping of networks and virtual machine security policies
across sites. NSX supports the spanning of layer 2 networks eliminating the need to customize
virtual machine IP address settings during failover and migration. These features reduce
complexity, improve reliability, and minimize recovery times.
Site Recovery Manager roles can be assigned to specific individuals and groups in vCenter
Server. For example, an administrator might wish to allow several application owners to test
recovery plans, but limit the actual migration and failover of virtual machines to just a few
individuals in the organization. Site Recovery Manager also includes vCenter Server alarms for
monitoring and alerting.
The key features provided by Site Recovery Manager are:
• Integration with third-party array replication technologies and vSphere Replication
• Protection for virtually any workload regardless of operating system and application
• Centralized recovery plans with predefined virtual machine startup sequences
• Workflows for planned migration, disaster avoidance, and disaster recovery
• Automated IP address customization
• Non-disruptive recovery plan testing
• Familiar management user interface in vSphere Web Client
• Roles with preconfigured permissions
• Detailed history reports for testing, migration, and failover auditing
Terminology
Recovery time objective (RTO): Targeted amount of time a business process should be restored
after a disaster or disruption in order to avoid unacceptable consequences associated with a
break in business continuity.