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VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
Automate failover and recovery. Site Recovery Manager makes Key Features of Site Recovery Manager
it possible to automate execution of recovery plans, eliminating
Disaster Recovery Management
many of the slow and unreliable manual processes common in
traditional disaster recovery. At the same time, Site Recovery • Discover and display virtual machines protected by storage
Manager ensures that the recovery process is executed as intended. replication using integration adapters certified by storage vendors.
Support for iSCSI, FibreChannel, and NFS-based store replication.
• Create and manage recovery plans directly from vCenter Server.
How Does Site Recovery Manager Work?
• Extend recovery plans with custom scripts.
Site Recovery Manager helps organizations with the key elements
of building, managing and executing disaster recovery plans. The • Monitor availability of remote site and alert users of possible
solution plugs in to the VMware vCenter Server management site failures.
interface, providing integrated management for virtual infrastructure • Store, view and export results of test and failover execution
and the disaster recovery plans for that infrastructure. Site Recovery from vCenter Server.
Manager also integrates with storage replication software from • Control access to recovery plans with granular role-based
leading storage vendors to simplify the use of storage replication access controls.
software with VMware vSphere.
Non-Disruptive Testing
Site Recovery Manager helps users with the key elements of • Use storage snapshot capabilities to perform recovery tests
building, managing and executing disaster recovery plans: without losing replicated data.
• Setup recovery infrastructure. Site Recovery Manager guides • Connect virtual machines to an existing isolated network for
users through the process of connecting to the remote site and testing purposes.
to the storage replication software in use. It also makes it easy • Automate execution of recovery plans.
to map production resources, including computing and network
• Customize execution of recovery plans for testing scenarios.
resources, to the corresponding resources at a recovery site.
• Automate cleanup of testing environments after completing
• Create recovery plans. Site Recovery Manager provides an
failover tests.
intuitive interface to help users create recovery plans for
different failover scenarios and different parts of their Automated Failover
infrastructure. Users can specify virtual machines to be • Initiate recovery plan execution from vCenter Server with a
suspended or shut down to free resources for recovery. They singlebutton.
can also specify the order in which virtual machines are • Automate promotion of replicated datastores for recovery using
powered on, set user-defined scripts to execute automatically, adapters created by leading storage vendors for their
and specify where to pause the recovery process, if necessary. replication platforms.
• Test recovery plans. Site Recovery Manager automates the • Execute user-defined scripts and pauses during recovery.
creation of a non-disruptive and isolated testing environment
on the recovery site by leveraging storage arrays’ snapshot • Reconfigure virtual machines’ IP addresses to match network
capabilities and connecting virtual machines to the user’s isolated configuration at failover site.
testing network. Site Recovery Manager automates the execution • Manage and monitor execution of recovery plans within
of the actual recovery plan to be used in an actual failover and vCenter Server.
cleans up the testing environment once testing is complete.
Test results are saved for viewing and export at any time. Find Out More
• Automate failover. Once an administrator initiates a recovery
For information or to purchase VMware products,
plan from VMware vCenter Server, Site Recovery Manager
call 1-877-4VMWARE (outside of North America dial
automates execution of the steps in the recovery plan to ensure
+1-650-427-5000), visit www.vmware.com/products,
that recovery is executed exactly as designed. Administrators
or search online for an authorized reseller. For detailed
have full visibility into execution of the recovery plan through
product specifications and systems requirements,
vCenter Server and can pause or stop execution at any time.
please refer to the Site Recovery Manager install
As their environment changes, users can update and modify
and configure guide.
recovery plans at any time through vCenter Server to ensure
the plans are up to date.
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