
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0
Evaluation Guide
Summary
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) leverages your vCenter and vSphere platform to improve
disaster recovery in the following ways:
• Rapid —automating the disaster recovery process for your virtual machines by eliminating the complexities of
traditional physical disaster recovery.
• Reliable—ensuring the proper execution of the recovery plan, enabling easier, more frequent tests in an
isolated environment without impacting services in the protected site.
• Manageable—centrally managing recovery plans and making plans dynamic to match a dynamic virtualized
environment.
• Aordable—utilizing appropriate replication technology for your needs, while safely increasing utilization of
recovery site infrastructure and reducing management costs associated with DR practices.
Site Recovery Manager enables you to do the following:
• Expand disaster recovery protection—now any workload in a virtual machine can be protected with minimal
incremental eort and cost.
• Reduce time to recovery—as soon as a disaster is declared, Site Recovery Manager allows for the recovery of
protected virtual machines with a few mouse clicks to the designated recovery site.
• Increase reliability of recovery—replication of the system state ensures that your protected virtual machines
have all they need to start up in the protected site. Hardware independence that is realized through your
VMware Infrastructure eliminates failures due to dierent hardware.
• Enable easier and more frequent testing—Site Recovery Manager enables you to test your recovery plan in
an isolated environment without impacting services in the protected site while using the actual failover
sequence that will be executed during a real disaster.
Site Recovery Manager 5.0 provides additional features—vSphere Replication, automatic reprotection and
failback, new means of handling dependencies and priorities, and a simpler user interface that you can leverage
to extend your disaster recovery plan to cover even more of your business-continuity needs.
This guide provides you with step-by-step instructions on how to set up automated disaster recovery workflows
using Site Recovery Manager, as well as information on other cutting-edge DR features in Site Recovery
Manager. With Site Recovery Manager, you can design and implement a comprehensive disaster recovery plan
for your virtual environment. After going through the evaluation exercises in this guide, you should be able to
make the right choice to implement your disaster-recovery solutions in your virtual datacenter.
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