Disaster Recovery User's Guide

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Affords organizations and IT operations groups of various sizes the opportunity to improve business
resiliency and compliance standards based on cloud-scale economics.
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Allows for improved recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) policy
compliance while reducing total cost of ownership (TCO).
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Introduces alternatives for migrating production applications to the cloud with reduced downtime and
limited need for offline data transfers (ODT).
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Provides subscription-based Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS) for vSphere customers and also provides
support for different vSphere versions.
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Fully integrated vCenter Web Client
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Simple and easy to use management platform
In addition, the Site Recovery Manager (SRM) platform coexists with the vCloud Air – Disaster Recovery
service, which provides the ability to protect Tier 1 or Tier 2 workloads with SAN-based replication. For Tier
3 workloads that do not need as much as critical RPO, you can protect those using vCloud Air, by
leveraging the same vSphere Replication appliances, only replicating it out to vCloud Air –
Disaster Recovery.
Figure 1‑4. vCloud Air Disaster Recovery Co-exists with SRM
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About Setting up the Disaster Recovery Service
Subscribing to the Disaster Recovery service is a standard enrollment process whether you already have a
separate subscription with vCloud Air.
Prerequisites
Before setting up the Disaster Recovery service, you must meet the following prerequisites:
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You are a licensed vSphere customer running vSphere 5.6 or later (6.0 recommended) on-premises.
See Disaster Recovery to Cloud System Requirements and Compatibility in vSphere Replication 6.0 for
Disaster Recovery to Cloud for information.
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VMware vCloud Air - Disaster Recovery User's Guide
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