Site Recovery Manager Failover Scenario

[moneta82]

Hi guys,

I going to plan an installation of two ESX Cluster in two different location in the same building.

I trying to archive a RTO less than 8 minutes, my solution is based on two site with it's own vcenter and SRM server and with array based replication.

I have one simple question, if I have to test a recovery plan I can go on the source site and start the recovery plan for a single VM or a group, but what happen if my site A fail completely? In the site A I have all the VM anche the Virtual Center e the SRM Server.

The prodedure starts automatically from a "remote" site input? Or I have to go into remote site and start a remote plan manually?

Thanks

[rcporto]

You will need to run a Disaster Recovery from the remote site, choosing the option in yellow:

[moneta82]

Thanks a lot for your reply. Is there a way to do it automatically? Eg after x minute with no connection with source site?

[vbrowncoat]

You could write a script but since failover is disruptive (power off VMs at protected site, replicate then power on at recovery) I wouldn't recommend it as the risk for a false positive causing disruption is high.

Here is a post about doing this: Automating Failover with SRM - VMware Blogs

[rcporto · Accepted solution]

Note that disaster recovery is not equal to high availability and to declare a disaster many things must be taking in account and people from other areas than IT must be involved. Anyway, here you can found a way to automate a failover: Automating Failover with SRM - VMware Blogs