- Application uptime is key for businesses
- 40% of companies still use tape for DR purposes
- Legacy DR solutions can lead to extended periods of downtime
- Announcing SRM 6.1 and site recovery manager air
- From private cloud to public cloud – the hybrid cloud
- SRM automates every workflow of DR orchestration
- Non-disruptive testing, automated failback, automated failover, planned migrations
- Introduced in 2008
What’s new in SRM 6.1
- Policy-based management – New protection groups using vSphere policies & vRA integration
- Integration with VMware NSX – Automated network mapping
- zero-downtime application mobility – Orchestrated cross-vCenter vMotion using recovery plans
Policy Based DR
- Association of new datastores with SPPG (storage-profile protection group)
- Protection of VMs on replicated datastores within SPPG
- Removal of VMs from SPPG when datastore is removed
NSX Integration
- Network virtualization reduces OpEx and accelerate recovery
- SRM 6.1 supports NSX 6.2 cross-vCenter logical switches
- Automatic mapping of networks
- Federated NSX security rules on recovered VMs
- Faster recovery time by 40%
SRM support for Active-Active Datacenters
- New support!
- Production apps at both sites
- Zero downtime for planned events
- Typically limited to metro distances
- Uses cross-vCenter vMotion for planned events
- Day 0 support for EMC VPLEX, IBM SVC, HDS VSP
- Can enable zero RTO/RPO
SRM Family enables hybrid cloud availability and mobility
- DRaaS
- Cloud on-ramp
- Fast time-to-market
- Site Recovery Manager air automates vCloud air disaster recovery
- Deployed and managed as DRaaS
- Not available today, but coming in the future
- Provides detailed reports of recovery execution plans
- Demos SRM air
