Working with VMware Site Recovery Manager

This chapter will look at VMWare Site Recovery Manager (SRM) as a disaster recovery (DR) option for AVS. It is crucial to deploy a solution to minimize downtime of the virtual machines in an AVS environment if there is a disaster.

Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is a native VMware DR solution that simplifies management and automation and ensures a fast and highly predictable recovery time is implemented. This will remove manual steps during a disaster and keep your business running as desired.

By the end of this chapter, you will understand what VMware SRM is and why it is crucial to have a DR solution in place for your AVS environment. We will also walk you through identifying the need for your company’s DR solution.

Using the supported scenarios, you will also learn how to deploy and configure VMware SRM for your AVS environments.

Throughout this chapter, we will look at the following areas regarding VMware SRM for AVS:

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