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EVALUATOR’S GUIDE
VMWA RE VCENTER SI TE RECO VERY MANAGER 4.0
Overview of VMware vCenter Site
Recovery Manager
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager provides business continuity and disaster recovery protection for
VMware’s virtualization of the data center offers advantages that can be applied to business continuity and
disaster recovery, including:
Encapsulation 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.
that sits idle until disaster strikes.
recovery site in minutes or hours instead of days.
Site Recovery Manager leverages array-based replication between a protected site and a recovery site. The
workflow that is built into Site Recovery Manager automatically discovers which datastores are setup for
replication between the protected and recovery sites. Site Recovery Manager can be configured to support
bi-directional protection between two sites.
Site Recovery Manager provides protection for the operating systems and applications encapsulated by the
at the recovery site. The protected and recovery sites must each be managed by their own vCenter Server.
The Site Recovery Manager server uses the extensibility of the vCenter Server to provide:
Site Recovery Manager Prerequisites
vCenter servers.
recovery site.
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