Virtual disaster recovery

Site Recovery Manager, a product for disaster recovery management and automation, is available from VMware. It uses virtualisation to simplify business continuity planning and testing and reduces the risk and complexity associated with executing disaster recovery.

The product works seamlessly with VMware Infrastructure and VMware VirtualCenter to provide disaster recovery management and automation.

It provides integrated management of disaster recovery plans. This allows users to create, update and document recovery plans directly from VMware VirtualCenter.

Non-disruptive testing of disaster recovery plans enables users to execute automated tests of recovery plans in an isolated testing environment using the recovery plan that would be used in an actual failover. Hardware configuration dependencies are eliminated and testing can occur without impacting production systems.

Automated failover and recovery allows automatic execution of the recovery process, eliminating unreliable manual processes common in traditional disaster recovery.