VMware SRM 6.x – Part 1 – Overview

VMware Site Recovery Manager is an industry leading Disaster Recovery solution which ensures availability of applications across sites in VMware environments.

In simpler terms SRM automates the recovery and transfer of Virtual Machines to a remote site incase of any disaster in your primary site.

SRM needs an replication software to replicate Virtual Machines between the protected and recovery site. You can use the Array Based replication or the native vSphere Replication.

Site Recovery Manager Architecture

VMware Site Recovery Manager can be used only with vSphere and the same version of vCenter and SRM has to be installed on the Protected and Recovery site.

You can either use the Array based replication or the vSphere Replication for the replication process.

Official Website:

https://www.vmware.com/in/products/site-recovery-manager.html

https://docs.vmware.com/en/Site-Recovery-Manager/index.html

HOL:

http://docs.hol.vmware.com/HOL-2016/hol-sdc-1605_html_en/

VMware Site Recovery Manager comes as two editions namely Standard and Enterprise. A detailed comparison of the editions can be found in VMware KB 2000394.

See Next:
 
VMware SRM 6.x – Part 2 – Installation
 
See Also:
 
VMware SRM 6.x – Part 1 – Overview
VMware SRM 6.x – Part 2 – Installation
VMware SRM 6.x – Part 3 – Site Pairing
VMware SRM 6.x – Part 4 – Deploying VMware vSphere Replication
VMware SRM 6.x – Part 5 – Deploy a Replication Server
VMware SRM 6.x – Part 6 – Register the Replication Server
VMware SRM 6.x – Part 7 – Configuring Replication for a VM
VMware SRM 6.x – Part 8 – Test Replication
VMware SRM 6.x – Part 9 – Inventory Mapping
VMware SRM 6.x – Part 10 – Create Recovery Plan
VMware SRM 6.x – Part 11 – Running Test Recovery