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8. Conclusion
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) leverages your VMware vCenter and vSphere platform to
make disaster recovery:
 Rapid - by automating the disaster recovery process for your virtual machines by eliminating the
complexities of traditional physical disaster recovery.
 Reliable - by ensuring proper execution of the recovery plan as well as the ability to enable easier, more
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 Manageable - centrally manage recovery plans and make plans dynamic to match a dynamic
virtualized environment.
 Affordable - utilize recovery site infrastructure and reduce management costs.
Site Recovery Manager enables you to:
 Expand disaster recovery protection - now any workload in a virtual machine can be protected with
minimal incremental effort and cost.
 Reduce time to recovery - as soon as a disaster is declared, Site Recovery Manager allows for the
recovery of protected virtual machines with a few mouse clicks to the designated recovery site.
 Increase reliability of recovery - replication of system state ensures your protected virtual machines
have all they need to startup in the protected site. Hardware independence that is realized through
your VMware Infrastructure eliminates failures due to different hardware.
 Easier and more frequent testing – Site Recovery Manager enables you to test your recovery plan in
an isolated environment without impacting services in the protected site while using the actual failover
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Site Recovery Manager 4.0 provides additional features – vSphere support, NFS support and support for
multiple-to-one shared recovery site, which you can leverage to extend your disaster recovery plan to cover
even more of your disaster recovery needs.
This guide provides you with step-by-step instructions on how to setup automated disaster recovery
workflows using Site Recovery Manager as well as other cutting-edge DR features in Site Recovery Manager.
With Site Recovery Manager you can design and implement a comprehensive disaster recovery plan for your
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the right choice to implement your disaster recovery solutions in your virtual datacenter.
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4.0 Evaluator’s Guide
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