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VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0
Evaluation Guide
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tion enables the state of a virtual machine to be saved to a file. Saving the state of a virtual machine to a file
allows the transfer of an entire virtual machine to another host.
idle until disaster strikes.
recovery site in minutes, instead of days.
SRM uses replication between a protected site and a recovery site. The workflow that is built into SRM
automatically discovers which datastores or VMs are configured for replication between the protected and
recovery sites. SRM can be configured to support bidirectional protection between two sites.
SRM provides protection for the operating systems and applications encapsulated by the virtual machines
and recovery sites must each be managed by their own vCenter server. The SRM Server uses the extensibility of
vCenter Server to provide the following:
Site Recovery Manager Prerequisites
SRM has the following prerequisites:
replication will be used)
recovery site
protected in the evaluation
Site Recovery Manager Configuration and Protection Workflow
The following workflows accomplish setup and configuration for the protected and recovery sites. The SRM user
interface is installed as a plug-in into the vSphere Client. SRM uses the vSphere Client as the user interface (UI).
The SRM UI is accessed by clicking the Site Recovery icon on the vSphere Client Home page (found in the
services failover from the protected site to the recovery site.
It is important to complete the workflows in the order they are presented in this guide.
The recovery site configuration workflow involves the following activities:
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