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