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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

Understanding recovery plans


Recovery plans are created at the recovery site. They are accessible and can be run from the recovery site when there is a disaster at the protected site. A recovery plan is executed to failover the virtual machine workload that was running at the protected site, to the recovery site. It can also be used to perform planned migrations. A recovery plan is a series of configuration steps that has to be performed to failover the protected VMs to the recovery site.

Note

A recovery plan should be associated with at least one protection group.

Creating a recovery plan

Once you have created protection groups, the next step would be to create a recovery plan for these protection groups. A recovery plan can be created either from the protected or the recovery sites. However, it is important to make sure that you select the direct recovery site while creating it. Since the sites are paired, a copy of the recovery plan will be created at the recovery site as well.

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