VMware Site Recovery Manager

VMware Site Recovery Manager is an automation software that integrates
with an underlying replication technology to provide policy-based management,non-disruptive testing and automated orchestration of recovery plans. It is designed for virtual machines and scalable to manage all applications in a VMware vSphere® environment. To deliver flexibility and choice, it integrates natively with vSphere Replication™ and also supports a broad range of arraybased replication solutions available from all major VMware storage partners.
Site Recovery Manager natively leverages the benefits of VMware vSphere
and can also take advantage of the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC)
architecture, integrating with other VMware solutions, such as VMware NSX
(network virtualisation) and VMware Virtual SAN (hyper-converged
software-defined storage).

Key Benefits

• Use for multiple use cases, such as disaster recovery, disaster avoidance, data center migration and other.
• Perform frequent non-disruptive testing, even during business hours, to ensure predictable recovery objectives.
• Reduce recovery time to minutes with reliability using automated orchestration workflows.
• Achieve zero-downtime application mobility orchestrating live migration of virtual machines at scale across sites.
• Return to regular operations with ease using the original recovery plan through automated failback.
• Protect thousands of virtual machines using centralized recovery plans and eliminate manual runbooks.
• Protect investments and tailor RPOs using supported replication solutions available from major storage vendors.
• Further reduce OpEx and CapEx using complementary Software-Defined Data Center technologies, such as VMware NSX®
and VMware Virtual SAN™.

VMware Site Recovery Manager - Features

Current Features

• Centralised Recovery Plans
  • Create and manage recovery plans directly from the next-generation user interface of the vSphere Web Client.
  • Pre-define the boot sequence of virtual machines for automated recovery.
• Self-service, policy-based provisioning
  • VMware vRealize Orchestrator plugin for Site Recovery Manager.
  • Tenant-driven provisioning of pre-defined DR policies via blueprints in vRealize Automation.
• Planned migration and disaster avoidance
  • Graceful shut down of protected virtual machines at the original site.
  • Replication synchronization of protected virtual machines prior to migration to avoid data loss.
  • Restart of protected virtual machines in an application consistent state.
• Non-disruptive testing
  • Automate execution of recovery testing.
  • Use storage snapshot to perform recovery tests without interrupting replication.
  • Recover virtual machines into an isolated network to avoid any impact on production applications.
  • Customise the execution of recovery plans for testing scenarios.
  • Automate the cleanup of testing environments after completing tests.
  • Store, view and export results of test and failover execution from vCenter Server.
    
• Automated Failback
  • Re-protect virtual machines by reversing replication to the original site.
  • Automate the failback to the production site using original recovery plan.
• Flexible, cost-effective Replication
  • vSphere Replication is bundled with vSphere Essentials Plus and higher editions at no additional cost.
  • Use any type of storage, including direct-attached storage.
  • Customise the recovery point objective (RPO) between 15 minutes and 24 hours.
  • Replicate only changed blocks to increase network efficiency.
  • Revert to earlier known states using multiple point-in-time (MPIT) recovery.
    
• DR automation for all virtualised applications
  • Application-agnostic DR solution engineered to protect any virtual machine.
  • Protect up to 5,000 virtual machines per vCenter Server using array-based replication - five times larger than with previous limits.
  • Concurrently recover of up to 2,000 virtual machines per vCenter Server using array-based replication - two times the previous scalability.
• Support for Third-party array-based replication
  • Leverage existing investments in storage arrays and replication products from all major vendors.
• Disaster Recovery to the Cloud Services based on Site Recovery Manager
  • Fully managed services available through major VMware Service Providers.
  • All the automation benefits of Site Recovery Manager.
  • Support for vSphere Replication or array-based replication depending on the partner.
• VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery
  • Warm standby capacity in VMwares Hybrid Cloud.
  • Self-service protection, failover and failback workflows per virtual machine.
  • Simple and secure asynchronous replication based on vSphere Replication.

VMware Site Recovery Manager - System Requirements

• Processor: 2.0GHz or higher Intel or AMD x86 processor
• Memory: 2GB minimum
• Disk Storage: 5GB minimum
• Networking: 1 Gigabit recommended