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Disaster Recovery using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager

By : Abhilash G B
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Disaster Recovery using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager

By: Abhilash G B

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Disaster Recovery Using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Performing a disaster recovery (Failover)


A Failover is performed when the protected site becomes fully or partially unavailable. We use a Recovery Plan that is already created and tested to perform the Failover. Keep in mind that SRM does not automatically determine the occurrence of a disaster at the protected site; hence, a recovery is always to be manually initiated.

The following steps show how to perform a Failover:

  1. Navigate to the vCenter Server's inventory home page and click on Site Recovery.

  2. Click on Recovery Plans on the left pane.

  3. Select the Recovery Plan that was created for the disaster recovery and click on the Recovery toolbar item to bring up the recovery wizard.

  4. In the recovery wizard, as shown in the following screenshot, agree to the Recovery Confirmation, set the Recovery Type as Disaster Recovery, and click on Next to continue:

  5. The next screen will summarize the selected wizard options. Click on Start to perform the recovery.

  6. The Recovery Steps tab of the Recovery Plan will...