Simplify DR management with the only VMware-integrated solution that runs on any storage platform
VMware Site Recovery Manager automation software integrates with an underlying replication technology to provide policy-based management, minimize downtime in case of disasters via automated orchestration of recovery plans, and conduct nondisruptive testing of your DR plans. It is designed for virtual machines (VMs) and scalable to manage all applications in a VMware vSphere environment. To deliver flexibility and choice, it integrates natively with VMware vSphere Replication and VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes™ integrated storage arrays, and also supports a broad range of array-based replication solutions available from all major VMware storage partners.
Site Recovery Manager natively leverages the benefits of vSphere and can also take advantage of VMware Cloud Foundation™, integrating with other VMware solutions such as VMware NSX® (network virtualization) and VMware vSAN™ (hyperconverged infrastructure).
By allowing users to test and automate the migration process of applications between sites at scale with minimal or no downtime, Site Recovery Manager fulfills the needs for a variety of use cases, such as disaster recovery, disaster avoidance, planned data center migrations, site-level load balancing and application maintenance testing. Site Recovery Manager ensures fast and highly predictable recovery times, simplifies management through automation and minimizes the total cost of ownership, making it the industry-leading solution to enable application availability and mobility across sites in private cloud environments.
FIGURE 1 : Site Recovery Manager automates the failover and migration of VMs to a secondary site
vSphere Replication provides hypervisor-based VM replication. It protects VMs from partial or complete site failures by replicating the VMs, regardless of the underlying storage array, from a primary site to a secondary site, between two clusters in a single site, and from multiple source sites to a single target site. vSphere Replication is configured on a per-VM basis, allowing fine control over which VMs are replicated. After the initial replication, only changes to the VMs are replicated to minimize network bandwidth consumption.
Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication power VMware Site Recovery, a new DR-as-a-service (DRaaS) offering for VMware Cloud on AWS, that simplifies deployment, provides reliable DR capabilities and reduces overall costs.