VMware Site Recovery service

VMware Site Recovery VSR uses the time-tested VMware SRM product to deliver VSR as a VMware Cloud on AWS integrated add-on service. This service simplifies traditional DR operations. The service is designed to provide a disaster recovery solution that can mitigate the need for a physical secondary site and quickly scale to a full production environment, simplifying DR operations. The following figure illustrates protecting a organization data center with VMware Cloud on AWS using VSR.

Figure 3.10 – VSR architecture

VSR leverages vSphere Replication (vR) to provide native hypervisor-based replication. All infrastructure services are delivered through software, and the orchestration is done through the VSR add-on. Organizations can replicate VM images and create automated recovery plans. These plans include the startup order, recovery steps, and recovery plan. The following figure shows the different components included...