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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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