vCentre Site Recovery

Take the Disaster Out of Disaster Recovery

VMware vCenterâ„¢ Site Recovery Manager makes disaster recovery rapid, reliable and manageable, so that organisations can meet their recovery objectives. Site Recovery Manager delivers centralised management of recovery plans and automates the recovery process. It turns complex paper runbooks associated with traditional disaster recovery into an integrated element of virtual infrastructure management, allowing organisations to improve recovery plantesting dramatically.

How Is VMware Site Recovery Manager Used?

Organisations find it increasingly difficult to provide disaster recovery solutions that meet their needs. Site Recovery Manager helps organisations address the challenges of traditional disaster recovery so that they can meet their recovery time objectives (RTO), recovery point objectives (RPO) and compliance requirements.
Using Site Recovery Manager, organisations can manage failover from their production datacenters to disaster recovery sites. They can also manage failover between two sites that both have active workloads and act as recovery sites for each other. Site Recovery Manager can also help with planned datacenter failovers in scenarios such as datacenter migrations, by automating and simplifying the process of failing over to the new datacenter.

Using Site Recovery Manager, organisations can:

Manage disaster recovery plans. Site Recovery Manager allows organisations 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, organisations 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.

VMware vCentre Site Recovery Manager helps organisations with the key elements of building, managing and executing disaster recovery plans. The solution plugs in to the VMware vCenter Server management interface, providing integrated management for virtual infrastructure and the disaster recovery plans for that infrastructure. Site Recovery Manager also integrates with storage replication software from leading storage vendors to simplify the use of storage replication software with VMware vSphere.

For futher information on VMware vCentre Site Recovery Manager please call the team on 01932 232345.