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Disaster Recovery using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager

Use VMware vCenter SRM as a disaster recovery solution leveraging both array-based replication and vSphere Replication.

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|Sep 2025
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Key Features

    Book Description

    This is a step-by-step guide that will help you understand disaster recovery using VMware vSphere Replication 5.5 and VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5.5. The topics and configuration procedures are accompanied with relevant screenshots, flowcharts, and logical diagrams that makes grasping the concepts easier. This book is a guide for anyone who is keen on using vSphere Replication or vCenter Site Recovery Manager as a disaster recovery solution. This is an excellent handbook for solution architects, administrators, on-field engineers, and support professionals. Although the book assumes that the reader has some basic knowledge of data center virtualization using VMware vSphere, it can still be a very good reference for anyone who is new to virtualization.

    What you will learn

    • Familiarize yourself with disaster recovery concepts
    • Deploy vCenter Site Recovery Manager
    • Configure vCenter Site Recovery Manager to leverage arraybased replication and vSphere Replication
    • Enable the protection of virtual machines by creating Protection Groups
    • Create and test Recovery Plans
    • Migrate virtual machine workload to another site using Recovery Plans
    • Perform a Failover in the event of a disaster
    • Failback the virtual machines to the Protected Site
    • Use vSphere Replication as a standalone disaster recovery solution

    Who this book is for

    Table of Contents

      PDF ISBN: 978-1-78217-645-9
      Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
      Copyright owner: © 2014 Packt Publishing Limited
      Publication date: 2025
      Language: English
      Pages: 162