- Accelerate recovery by automating execution of failover
- Simplify the creation and management of recovery plans
- Improve the reliability of recovery plans by simplifying recovery and testing
- Improve compliance with disaster recovery documentation and testing requirements
- Discover and display virtual machines protected by storage replication using integration adapters certified by storage vendors
- Create and manage recovery plans directly from vCenter Server
- Extend recovery plans with custom scripts
- Monitor availability of remote site and alert users of possible site failures
- Store, view and export results of test and failover execution from vCenter Server
- Control access to recovery plans with granular role-based access controls
- Use storage snapshot capabilities to perform recovery tests without losing replicated data
- Connect virtual machines to an existing isolated network for testing purposes
- Automate execution of recovery plans
- Customize execution of recovery plans for testing scenarios
- Automate cleanup of testing environments after completing failover tests
- Initiate recovery plan execution from vCenter Server with a single button
- Automate promotion of replicated datastores for recovery using adapters created by leading storage vendors for their replication platforms
- Execute user-defined scripts and pauses during recovery
- Reconfigure virtual machines' IP addresses to match network configuration at failover site
- Manage and monitor execution of recovery plans within vCenter Server
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager makes disaster recovery rapid, reliable and manageable, so that organizations can meet their recovery objectives. Site Recovery Manager delivers centralized management of recovery plans and automates the recovery process. It turns complex paper runbooks associated with traditional disaster recovery into an integrated element of virtual infrastructure management, allowing organizations to improve recovery plan testing dramatically.
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager is a pioneering disaster recovery management and automation solution for VMware vSphere Site Recovery Manager accelerates recovery by automating the recovery process and simplifies management of disaster recovery plans by making disaster recovery an integrated element of managing your VMware virtual infrastructure. Site Recovery Manager also ensures reliable recovery by eliminating complex manual recovery steps and enabling non-disruptive testing of recovery plans.
Site Recovery Manager integrates tightly with VMware vSphere, VMware vCenter Server and storage replication from leading storage vendors to make failover and recovery rapid, reliable, affordable and manageable. It enables organizations to take the risk and worry out of disaster recovery, as well as expand protection to all of their important systems and applications.