Site Recovery Manager delivers advanced capabilities for disaster recovery management, non-disruptive testing and automated failover. Site Recovery Manager can manage failover from production datacenters to disaster recovery sites, as well as failover between two sites with active workloads. It can also help with planned datacenter failovers such as datacenter migrations.
Disaster Recovery Management
- Create and manage recovery plans directly from VMware VirtualCenter.
- Discover and display virtual machines protected by storage replication using integrations certified by storage vendors.
- Extend recovery plans with custom scripts.
- Monitor availability of remote site and alert users of possible site failures.
- Store, view and export results of test and failover execution from VirtualCenter.
- Control access to recovery plans with granular role-based access controls.
Non-Disruptive Testing
- Use storage snapshot capabilities to perform recovery tests without losing replicated data.
- Connect virtual machines to an existing isolated network for testing purposes.
- Automate execution of tests of recovery plans.
- Customise execution of recovery plans for testing scenarios.
- Automate cleanup of testing environments after completing tests.
Automated Failover
- Initiate recovery plan execution from VirtualCenter with a single button.
- Automate promotion of replicated datastores for recovery using adapters created by leading storage vendors for their replication platforms.
- Execute user-defined scripts and pauses during recovery.
- Reconfigure virtual machines’ IP addresses to match network configuration at failover site.
- Manage and monitor execution of recovery plans within VMware VirtualCenter.