VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) enables you to ensure a rapid and successful system recovery by automating the recovery process. SRM eliminates the complexity of managing and testing recovery plans.
Traditional recovery plans leave organizations exposed to significant risk of extended downtime because they are laborious to set up, time-consuming to maintain, and extremely difficult to test. As a result, only a subset of important systems can be adequately protected. Traditional non-virtualized systems have extensive dependencies on hardware configurations, which make consistent automation of the process extremely difficult if not impossible.
Site Recovery Manager works seamlessly with VMware Infrastructure, VMware VirtualCenter, and replication software from storage partners to provide integrated disaster recovery management and automation. It provides:
- Integrated management of disaster recovery plans. Create, update and document recovery plans directly from VMware VirtualCenter.
- Non-disruptive testing of disaster recovery plans. Execute automated tests of recovery plans in an isolated testing environment using the recovery plan that would be used in an actual failover. Hardware configuration dependencies are eliminated and testing can occur without affecting production systems.
- Automated failover and recovery. Automate execution of the recovery process, eliminating many of the slow and unreliable manual processes common in traditional disaster recovery.
