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Table Of Contents
- Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration
- Contents
- About VMware Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration
- Updated Information
- Overview of VMware Site Recovery Manager
- Site Recovery Manager System Requirements
- Creating the Site Recovery Manager Database
- Site Recovery Manager Authentication
- Creating SSL/TLS Server Endpoint Certificates for Site Recovery Manager
- Installing Site Recovery Manager
- Site Recovery Manager and vCenter Server Deployment Models
- Site Recovery Manager in a Two-Site Topology with One vCenter Server Instance per Platform Services Controller
- Site Recovery Manager in a Two-Site Topology with Multiple vCenter Server Instances per Platform Services Controller
- Site Recovery Manager in a Single Site Topology with a Shared Platform Services Controller
- Prerequisites and Best Practices for Site Recovery Manager Server Installation
- Install Site Recovery Manager Server
- Connect the Site Recovery Manager Server Instances on the Protected and Recovery Sites
- Establish a Client Connection to the Remote Site Recovery Manager Server Instance
- Install the Site Recovery Manager License Key
- Site Recovery Manager Server Does Not Start
- Unregister an Incompatible Version of vSphere Replication
- Site Recovery Manager and vCenter Server Deployment Models
- Modifying and Uninstalling Site Recovery Manager
- Modify a Site Recovery Manager Server Installation
- Reconfigure the Connection Between Sites
- Break the Site Pairing and Connect to a New Remote Site
- Repair a Site Recovery Manager Server Installation
- Rename a Site Recovery Manager Site
- Uninstall Site Recovery Manager
- Uninstall and Reinstall the Same Version of Site Recovery Manager
- Upgrading Site Recovery Manager
- Information That Site Recovery Manager Upgrade Preserves
- Types of Upgrade that Site Recovery Manager Supports
- Upgrade Site Recovery Manager
- Order of Upgrading vSphere and Site Recovery Manager Components
- Prerequisites and Best Practices for Site Recovery Manager Upgrade
- In-Place Upgrade of Site Recovery Manager Server
- Upgrade Site Recovery Manager Server with Migration
- Configure and Verify the Upgraded Site Recovery Manager Installation
- Revert to a Previous Release of Site Recovery Manager
- Installing Site Recovery Manager to Use with a Shared Recovery Site
- Shared Recovery Sites and vCenter Server Deployment Models
- Limitations of Using Site Recovery Manager in Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Site Recovery Manager Licenses in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Install Site Recovery Manager In a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Use vSphere Replication in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Install Site Recovery Manager Server on Multiple Protected Sites to Use with a Shared Recovery Site
- Install Multiple Site Recovery Manager Server Instances on a Shared Recovery Site
- Connect the Site Recovery Manager Sites in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Use Array-Based Replication in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Configure Placeholders and Mappings in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Upgrade Site Recovery Manager in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Index
Overview of
VMware Site Recovery Manager 1
VMware Site Recovery Manager is a business continuity and disaster recovery solution that helps you to
plan, test, and run the recovery of virtual machines between a protected vCenter Server site and a recovery
vCenter Server site.
You can configure Site Recovery Manager to protect virtual machines in different ways.
Datastore groups
Protect the virtual machines in datastore groups by using third-party disk
replication mechanisms to configure array-based replication. Array-based
replication surfaces replicated datastores to recover virtual machine
workloads.
Individual virtual
machines
Protect the individual virtual machines on a host by using
Site Recovery Manager in combination with VMware vSphere Replication.
Storage policies
Protect virtual machines based on their association with specific storage
policies. Protecting virtual machines by using storage policies requires array-
based replication.
You can use Site Recovery Manager to implement different types of recovery from the protected site to the
recovery site.
Planned migration
The orderly evacuation of virtual machines from the protected site to the
recovery site. Planned migration prevents data loss when migrating
workloads in an orderly fashion. For planned migration to succeed, both
sites must be running and fully functioning.
Disaster recovery
Similar to planned migration except that disaster recovery does not require
that both sites be up and running, for example if the protected site goes
offline unexpectedly. During a disaster recovery operation, failure of
operations on the protected site is reported but is otherwise ignored.
Site Recovery Manager orchestrates the recovery process with the replication mechanisms, to minimize data
loss and system down time.
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At the protected site, Site Recovery Manager shuts down virtual machines cleanly and synchronizes
storage, if the protected site is still running.
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Site Recovery Manager powers on the replicated virtual machines at the recovery site according to a
recovery plan.
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