Protecting the virtual datacenter with Site Recovery Manager
Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is a VMware product that provides a framework to automate the protection and failover between VMware-virtualized datacenters. SRM is licensed as a separate product. Licensing is per-VM protected, and there are two license editions: Standard and Enterprise. The Standard edition provides protection for up to 75 virtual machines, and the Enterprise edition can protect an unlimited number of virtual machines.
A complete book can be dedicated to the implementation and use of SRM. This book is just meant to be a quick overview of the configuration and capabilities of SRM. More information on the implementation and use of SRM can be found in the SRM documentation at http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/srm_pubs.html.
How to do it…
Protecting the datacenter using SRM is accomplished through the following process:
- Identify the requirements of Site Recovery Manager.
- Deploy Site Recovery Manager at the protected...
