Running recovery plan if Virtual Center on protected site is unavailable.

[veli]

I have SRM 1.0.1 and VC 2.5.0 both installed on virtual machine on protected host.

Question one is: Does recovery plan work normally when this protected host (and SRM and VC) is in down state?

Question two is: It is possible to run recovery plan automatically when protected host crashes or power off unexpectedly?

[TimOudin]

Anser one: Short story is that if you also have a recovery site with associated VC/SRM server, ESX resources, recovery plans constructed on the recovery SRM server using existing data replication technology then, yes, recovery can be performed with the protected site in an offline state.

Answer two: No, not without some serious custom scripting. Automatic failover is, from my discussions, seen an an undesirable behaviour.

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Cheers

Tim Oudin