What is Reprotect in SRM?
SRM Reprotect provides the reprotect function which is an automated way to reverse protection. You can perform reprotect on protection groups that contain virtual machines that are configured for both array-based replication and for vSphere Replication.
Does SRM require 2 Vcenters?
Yes, Site Recovery Manager requires two active and licensed vCenter Server instances, one at each site (protected and recovery).
What does VMware SRM do?
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) provides policy-based management, minimizes downtime in case of disasters via automated orchestration, and enables nondisruptive testing of your disaster recovery plans.
What is SRM VMware replication?
SRM leverages VMware vSphere Replication to provide hypervisor-based virtual machine replication. It protects VMs from partial or complete site failures by copying the virtual machines from a primary site to a secondary site, or from multiple sources to a single disaster recovery site.
What is the difference between SRM and vSphere replication?
vSphere Replication license is included in vSphere Enterprise Plus, while SRM is an independent product and is a per VM or per CPU (as part of vCloud Suite Enterprise) license. vSphere Replication protects your VMware Virtual Environment by replicating your VMware environment (site) to a secondary site.
Does SRM require vCenter?
What components are required for a Site Recovery Manager deployment? Instances of vSphere, vCenter Server, and Site Recovery Manager are required at both the protected site and the recovery site. SRM also requires an underlying replication product to copy virtual machines to the recovery site.
What is SRM for disaster recovery?
Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is the industry-leading disaster recovery (DR) management solution, designed to minimize downtime in case of a disaster. It provides policy-based management, automated orchestration, and non-disruptive testing of centralized recovery plans.
Can you use vSphere replication without SRM?
Can i use vSphere Replication standalone without SRM? How to failover and recover VM without SRM? Yes. You can use VR without SRM, failover and recovery will be done manually power on VM in Target site.
Does vSphere replication require SRM?
vSphere Replication does not require storage arrays.
Does VMware SRM use snapshots?
Managing transient data and replication using SRM
According to VMware’s official admin guide for VMware SRM, “array-based replication supports recovering snapshots and linked clones, but they have limitations based on CPU types. (vSphere Replication does not support recovering snapshots and linked clones.)”