difference between disaster recovery and site recovery management

[Jdsony5]

hello guys,

can you please let me know if disaster recovery and site recovery management are one and same or are they different features of VI suite. do we have to buy these disaster recovery tools from a third party

vendor? if so what are the best vendors out there in the market for

disaster recovery and SRM?thank you in anticipation for all those who reply to this question.

cheers

[marcelo_soares · Accepted solution]

SRM is a tool to manage a disaster recover. There is no such a product called DR, but you can develop a DR strategy in order to have your environment working with or without SRM.

For DR, you need SAN based replication (or a tool that perform this). SAN vendors have solutions for that that can integrate with SRM or simply be part pof your particular DR strategy.

Marcelo Soares

VMWare Certified Professional 310/410

Virtualization Tech Master

Globant Argentina

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[jkumhar75]

The SRM is the suite which you can buy along with your VI suite from VMware.The SRM tools is very helpful in the event of disaster recovery.

The disaster recovery tool is meant for the SAN.Now a days all the SAN vendors are selling the DR tools and solutions for the enterprises.This tools are more or less based on the SAN replication methodology.

MCSE,VCP 310,VCP 410.

[Jdsony5]

thank you marcelo for the reply.

you said "For DR, you need SAN based replication (or a tool that perform this)". i reckon vReplicator from vizioncore provides SAN based replication. then can we assume vReplicator provides Disaster Recovery Solutions?

[Jdsony5]

hi jkumhar75,

thanks for the reply. do you mean that SRM is something the SAN admins should be bothered about? let me know if we need to take care of SRM as VMware admins or is it some thing to do with the SAN admins?

cheers

[jkumhar75]

The SRM needs to be taken care by the Vmware admins. This is the add-on suite comes with VI package if you request for it ready to pay for it.

MCSE,VCP 310,VCP 410.

[Jdsony5]

thanks for the reply