Product description
Site Recovery Manager integrates tightly with VMware vSphere, VMware vCenter Server and storage replication from leading storage vendors to make failover and recovery rapid, reliable, affordable and manageable. It enables organizations to take the risk and worry out of disaster recovery, as well as expand protection to all of their important systems and applications.
Product features
- Manage disaster recovery plans
Site Recovery Manager allows organizations to create, update and document recovery plans as an integrated part of managing their VMware virtual environment. Traditional solutions for disaster recovery rely on documenting all of the steps and resources required for failover in runbooks that are difficult or impossible to keep accurate and up-to-date. With Site Recovery Manager, the steps and resources that make up the failover process are managed directly from VMware vCenter Server. - Perform non-disruptive tests of failover and recovery
Using Site Recovery Manager, organizations can execute automated tests of their recovery plans without disrupting their environment. Site Recovery Manager makes it easy to create an isolated environment for testing while leveraging the recovery plan that would be used in an actual failover. - Automate failover and recovery
Site Recovery Manager makes it possible to automate execution of recovery plans, eliminating many of the slow and unreliable manual processes common in traditional disaster recovery. At the same time, Site Recovery Manager ensures that the recovery process is executed as intended. - Setup recovery infrastructure
Site Recovery Manager guides users through the process of connecting to the remote site and to the storage replication software in use. It also makes it easy to map production resources, including computing and network resources, to the corresponding resources at a recovery site. - Create recovery plans
Site Recovery Manager provides an intuitive interface to help users create recovery plans for different failover scenarios and different parts of their infrastructure. Users can specify virtual machines to be suspended or shut down to free resources for recovery. They can also specify the order in which virtual machines are powered on, set user-defined scripts to execute automatically, and specify where to pause the recovery process, if necessary. - Test recovery plans
Site Recovery Manager automates the creation of a non-disruptive and isolated testing environment on the recovery site by leveraging storage arrays' snapshot capabilities and connecting virtual machines to the user's isolated testing network. Site Recovery Manager automates the execution of the actual recovery plan to be used in an actual failover and cleans up the testing environment once testing is complete. Test results are saved for viewing and export at any time. - Automate failover
Once an administrator initiates a recovery plan from VMware vCenter Server, Site Recovery Manager automates execution of the steps in the recovery plan to ensure that recovery is executed exactly as designed. Administrators have full visibility into execution of the recovery plan through vCenter Server and can pause or stop execution at any time. As their environment changes, users can update and modify recovery plans at any time through vCenter Server to ensure the plans are up to date.
