VM disaster recovery orchestration that plugs into vCenter, letting teams plan, test and execute failover between a protected site and a recovery site. Replication underneath can be vSphere Replication, array-based or vVols; VCF customers get it through the advanced service called VMware Live Recovery.
Also called formerly VMware Site Recovery Manager, VMware Site Recovery Manager.
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Terms in this definition
- DR
Disaster recovery means getting a service running again from another region or site, with success judged by RPO and RTO; uptime SLAs and data retention are different concerns.
- vCenter
Management software for VMs, clusters and ESX hosts. Each domain in VCF gets a dedicated one.
- EXECUTE
Allows calling a function or loading a registered model in Unity Catalog, and seeing its definition.
USE CATALOGandUSE SCHEMAare needed too. - failover
Switching workloads from production VMs over to replicas at the recovery site; replica, CDP replica and storage plans do this. The plan is left in FAILOVER until it is undone, made permanent or followed by failback.
- LSDOU
The sequence in which Group Policy is processed: the local policy first, followed by site, domain and organisational unit policies. The nearest, last-processed setting takes effect unless Enforced or Block Inheritance alters that.
- vSphere Replication
Array-independent, host-based VM replication within or between sites, provided as a vCenter extension with an appliance at each site; VMware Live Site Recovery can use it instead of array replication.
- vSphere Virtual Volumes
Deprecated in vSphere 9.0, this framework has the array, through VASA, hold every virtual machine disk as an individual volume, grouped into storage containers.
- VMware Cloud Foundation
Broadcom's platform for private cloud. It unifies management of NSX, vSAN, vSphere, VCF Automation and VCF Operations as one fleet; VVF, by contrast, lacks automation and cloud management.
Related terms
- protection group
VMs that VMware Live Site Recovery protects and recovers as a unit. A group may appear in several recovery plans but is limited to one replication type: vSphere Replication, vVols or array-based.
- recovery plan
In VMware Live Site Recovery, the automated runbook that brings back one or more protection groups. It controls which network addresses VMs use and their power-on order, through dependencies and priority groups, and can be tested while production carries on undisturbed.
- SRA
Vendor-supplied software, installed for VMware Live Site Recovery at both sites, that allows array-based replication (storage arrays copying data from protected to recovery site). Not required when vSphere Replication is used.