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VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager

Deliver Manageable and Automated Disaster Recovery

Accelerate recovery and ensure successful recovery by automating the recovery process and eliminating the complexity of managing and testing recovery plans. VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager eliminates complex manual recovery steps and removes the risk and worry from disaster recovery.

• Decrease planned and unplanned downtime for improved business continuity.
• Protect all of your important systems and applications with disaster recovery.

Take the Disaster Out of Disaster Recovery

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Build, Manage and Execute Reliable Disaster Recovery Plans

As an integrated element of VMware Infrastructure, VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager helps you :

• Accelerate recovery for the virtual environment through automation
  Ensure that you are able to meet your recovery time objectives (RTOs) by automating the recovery process.
  
  
• Ensure reliable recovery by enabling non-disruptive testing
  Eliminate common causes of failure during recovery and make it possible to test your recovery plans thoroughly and easily.
  
  
• Simplify recovery by eliminating complex manual recovery steps and centralizing management of recovery plans
  Simplify and centralize the process of creating, updating and managing recovery plans.
  
  

Key Features

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager delivers advanced capabilities for disaster recovery management, non-disruptive testing and automated failover. VMware vCenter 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 vCenter Server.
• 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 VMware vCenter Server.
• 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.
• Customize execution of recovery plans for testing scenarios.
• Automate cleanup of testing environments after completing tests.

Automated Failover

• Initiate recovery plan execution from VMware vCenter Server 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 machinesÕ IP addresses to match network configuration at failover site.
• Manage and monitor execution of recovery plans within VMware vCenter Server.