Chapter 10. Recovery Site Configuration

We are very close to being able to run our first basic test plan. I’m sure you’re just itching to press a button that tests failover. I want to get to that stage as quickly as possible so that you get a feel for the components that make up SRM. I want to give you the “bigger picture” view, if you like, before we get lost in the devil that is the detail.

So far all our attention has been on a configuration held at the Protected Site’s vCenter. Now we are going to change tack to look at the Recovery Site’s vCenter configuration. The critical piece is the creation of a Recovery Plan. It is likely you will have multiple Recovery Plans based on the possibility of different types of failures, which yield different responses. If you lost an entire site, the Recovery Plan would be very different from a Recovery Plan invoked due to loss of an individual storage array or, for that matter, a suite of applications.