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vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.1
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vSphere Provides The Best Foundation For Disaster Recovery
Flexible Infrastructure• Eliminate need for identical hardware across
sites• Enable waterfalling of equipment to recovery site
Simple Application Protection• Entire system – including application, OS,
and data – is stored as virtual machine files• Entire system can be protected with data
protection tools
Cost-Efficient Infrastructure• Reduced hardware requirements at recovery
site• Use recovery hardware to run low-priority apps
Encapsulation
Consolidation
HardwareIndependence
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vCenter Site Recovery Manager Ensures Simple, Reliable DR
Simplify management of recovery and migration plans• Replace manual runbooks with centralized
recovery plans• From weeks to minutes to set up new plan
Automate failover and migration processes• Reduce testing gap with frequent non-
disruptive testing• Ensure automated failover and migration• Automate failback processes
Broad Choice of Replication Options• Built-in vSphere Replication• Support for storage-based replication
Site Recovery Manager Complements vSphere to provide the simplest and most reliable disaster protection and site migration for all applications
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Site A (Primary) Site B (Recovery)
Servers Servers
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Key Components Of SRM 5.1
vCenter ServerSite
Recovery Manager
Protected Site Recovery Site
Storage
vCenter ServerSite
Recovery Manager
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Storage
Replication Options
vSphere Replication
Storage-Based Replication (3rd party)
Site Recovery Manager 5• 1 per site
vCenter Server 5.1• 1 per site• Standard, Foundation, Essentials
vSphere 3.5, 4.x or 5.x• Essentials+, Standard, Enterprise or
Enterprise Plus
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VMware offers Low-cost DR solutions for Small/Remote Offices
vSphere Essentials Plusor
vSphere Acceleration Kits
Site Recovery Manager(a-la-carte editions – Standard, Enterprise)
Multi-Site Production & DR
Site B
Site A
Overview
Benefits
vSphere and SRM 5.1 new capabilities drastically lower cost and complexity of BCDR:
New! vSphere Storage Appliance and vSphere Replication included in Ess+ and AKs
New! vSphere Data Protection for backup to disk with dedup included in Ess + and AKs
New! SRM 5.1 adds support for vSphere Ess +
Run apps on leading virtualization platform Improve app uptime with built-in features, like
vMotion, HA, FT, Storage vMotion Reduce cost eliminating need for external shared
storage and third-party replication and backup Automate failover and DR testing with SRM
Thank You!