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Disaster Recovery Using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager - Second Edition

By : Abhilash G B
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Disaster Recovery Using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager - Second Edition

By: Abhilash G B

Overview of this book

VMware vCenter Site Recovery manage is an orchestration tool used to automate disaster recovery in a manner that no other solution does. It is programmed to leverage array-based replication and VMware's proprietary vSphere Replication engine. The book begins by talking about the architecture of SRM and guides you through the procedures involved in installing and configuring SRM to leverage array-based replication. You will then learn how to protect your virtual machines by creating Protection Groups and validate their recoverability by testing recovery plans and even performing failover and failback. Moving on, you will learn how to install and configure vSphere Replication as a standalone disaster recovery solution. It also guides you through the procedures involved in configuring SRM to leverage vSphere replication. Finally, you will learn how to deploy and configure vRealize Orchestrator and its plugin for SRM and vSphere Replication.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Disaster Recovery Using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


With today's IT infrastructures, be it virtual or physical, disaster recovery is of prime importance. Any business should be able to continue operating with reduced downtime for its sustainability among the competition. It also has a legal obligation toward customers to whom it sold its services. Two of the major factors used to market or sell a service are its High Availability and Recoverability.

Recoverability is the guarantee that the service offered and its data are protected against failures, and High Availability is the guarantee that the service offered would remain operational and the failures are handled in a way that the user of the service would not even know that there was a failure.

There are many ways in which businesses plan and implement disaster recovery. Although important, much of these decisions depend on the budgetary constraints. What turns out to be the most important is the existence of a disaster recovery plan. Gone are those days when you had to wait for a long period of time before all your critical applications were made available at a recovery site. With a lot of automation and scripting, businesses now expect better Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO).