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VMware VCenter Site Recovery Manager Cheat Sheet en
Perform frequent non-disruptive Move live virtual machines at Protect thousands of VMs with Lower the total cost of ownership
testing to ensure recovery scale between sites over metro ease using centralized recovery of disaster recovery by up to 50
predictability and compliance, distances by using recovery plans plans managed from the vSphere percent1 by decreasing
and achieve fast and reliable to orchestrate VMware vSphere® Web Client and use policy-driven operational expenses through
recovery using fully automated cross-vCenter™ vMotion® automation and the SDDC automation and reducing capital
workflows and complementary operations, avoiding downtime architecture to simplify ongoing investments using SDDC
Software-Defined Data Center altogether. management. technology.
(SDDC) solutions.
• All new “storage-profile protection groups” • Integration with VMware NSX™ 6.2 enables • Site Recovery Manager 6.1 enables orchestrated
automate protecting and unprotecting VMs users to automatically map network resources cross-vCenter vMotion using a supported
and adding and removing datastores from across the sites when creating a recovery plan. metro-distance stretched storage solution.
protection groups. • After failover, network and security policies are • This enables disaster avoidance and migrations
• Storage-profile protection groups also enable preserved on recovered VMs, further without downtime, accelerates recovery time
integration with VMware vRealize™ decreasing recovery time by up to 40%2. and provides “Site Recovery Manager” benefits
Automation™ for stretched storage users.
Product Editions
Site Recovery Manager is available in two Editions: Standard and Enterprise. Both editions are licensed “per protected virtual
machine”. Site Recovery Manager Enterprise can also be licensed “per CPU” as part of the VMware vCloud Suite® Enterprise.
S TA N DA R D ENTERPRISE
Licensing
Maximum protected VMs 75 VMs per site No licensing limit
Features
Centralized recovery plans
Automated orchestration workflows
vSphere Replication™ support
Array-based replication support
VMware NSX integration
Orchestrated cross-vCenter vMotion
Stretched storage support
Storage-profile protection groups
1
Forrester, Move Beyond Disaster Recovery And Prepare For Business Technology Resiliency, September 2012
2
VMware Performance Engineering – internal testing, 2015
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VMware Site Recovery Manager 6.1
• Affected recently by full or partial site outage a. 50+ supported arrays for replication. Compatibility guide
• Failed to meet regulatory compliance b. Newly supported options for stretched storage
I can’t afford the storage • VMware vSphere Replication is bundled with vSphere Ess+ and higher editions and it is completely storage-
investments required for disaster agnostic, which means that no additional storage investments are required.
recovery • VMware Virtual SAN is a software-defined storage tier that leverages inexpensive server-side disks to create
shared storage, making it an ideal solution to reduce CaPeX at recovery sites.
• Site Recovery Manager integrates with vSphere Replication and Virtual SAN to deliver simple and automated
DR
I am already DR protected with • Site Recovery Manager does not replace a replication technology, it complements one by automating the
array-based replication testing and actual recovery processes, eliminating the need for manual steps
• Site Recovery Manager supports a broad range of array-based replication products offered by all major VMware
storage partners
I am evaluating stretched • Site Recovery Manager now integrates with supported stretched storage solutions:
clustering instead − For Site Recovery Manager users, this integration provides them with a replication option that enables
zero-downtime, zero-data-loss application mobility
− For stretched storage users, they get to experience the benefits of Site Recovery Manager, such as
centralized recovery plans, automated non-disruptive testing and orchestrated virtual machine recovery.
• The VMware Metro Storage Cluster (VMSC) implementation delivers VM downtime avoidance using vSphere
HA, which cannot deliver the advanced capabilities for DR that Site Recovery Manager can.
I am evaluating another host- • VMware vSphere Replication is the only hypervisor-based replication technology for vSphere. It delivers flexible,
based VM replication product reliable and cost-efficient replication. It is also bundled with vSphere at no cost.
• Host-based replication products have very shallow DR orchestration, if at all. Site Recovery Manager is the
industry-leading DR automation solution for vSphere.
I am evaluating application-level • Clustering solutions are application-specific; they create infrastructure silos and are difficult to scale. They are
mirroring / clustering instead also more expensive.
• Site Recovery Manager enables cost-effective, centralized protection that is scalable and applicable to all
virtualized applications.
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VMware Site Recovery Manager 6.1
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