VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Cheat Sheet

Totals Per Site Recovery Manager Pair*

site is now the protected site. The reprotect also flipflops any IP customizations you may have configured.

[ABR]

[VR]

Protected VMs

1500

500

VMs per Protection Group

500

500

Array-Based Replication (ABR) Sizing

Protection Groups per Recovery Plan

250

250

EMC RecoverPoint Appliance - Journal LUN > 20%

Total Recovery Plans

250

250

10

10

Concurrent Plan Operations

*total in pairing, not per site

Site Recovery Manager Functions

Test
Non-disruptive function which powers on VMs at
1
the recovery site without taking the protected site offline
to test the functionality of Site Recovery Manager. Utilizes
a snapshot or clone of the target side storage to present
to the hosts. Replicated data from the source site will be

Last thing it does is start replication.

Usable datastore size x % RoC (daily Rate of Change)

x # of days = Journal size
Example: 10TB datastore, 6% RoC, 7 day Site Recovery
Manager test: 10TB x 6% x 7 days = 4.2TB journal space
NetApp
Minimum 20% for Snapshot reserve
Requires FlexClone and SnapMirror license

queued until test is complete, ensuring adequate storage

VMware vSphere Replication [VR]

space to run a test. You have the option to run a storage

Replication at the VM host level

sync prior to powering on test VMs to get latest data

possible.
2
Cleanup
Completion function to end the test.
Destroys/deletes the storage snapshot and erases all
changed data at the recovery site. No changes to the

More for SMB use

One VR appliance per vCenter (contains management
server and first VR server)
Can deploy nine additional VR servers

test VMs are saved.

3
Recovery
Actual disaster recovery function. In planned
mode, syncs storage, shuts down VMs, removes storage

VR management server can manage up to 500 VMs

VR max disk size of 2032GB

from hosts and sets as read-only, performs another sync.

If you have suspended hosts at the recovery site, Site
Recovery Manager can bring them online. Also, if youre
running dev/QC/staging VMs at the recovery site, Site
Recovery Manager can suspend those VMs so no data
is lost. Site Recovery Manager then sets the target-side
storage as read-write and presents the storage to the
hosts, imports the VMs and powers them on. In a disaster,
Site Recovery Manager will still try to sync storage and
gracefully shutdown the VMs, but understands to continue
upon failure of those steps. If the recovery is a fail-back

Networking
No IP changing within the guest requires extending
VLANs or creating mirrored network segments
Use Site Recovery Managers GUI to set protected and
recovery site IP configuration on a per-VM basis
Use Site Recovery Managers dr-ip-customizer.exe to
export/import CSV of IP configurations at the Site
Recovery Manager level

function and you had dev/QC/staging VMs suspended,

Site Recovery Manager will resume those VMs.
4
Reprotect
Function to enable fail-back. The reprotect
sets up storage replication back the other direction. It also
reconfigures the Site Recovery Manager pairing to set the
current vCenter as the protected site and the old source

Third-Party Certificate Requirements

commonName (CN) = srm
subjectAltName = fqdn.of.srm.server
extendedKeyUsage = serverAuth, clientAuth

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Protected Site

Recovery Site

Site Recovery
Manager Plug-In
Site Recovery
Manager Server

SRA

Site Recovery
Manager Plug-In

vCenter Server

ESXi

ESXi

Site Recovery
Manager Server

vCenter Server

ESXi

ESXi

Storage

SRA

ESXi

Storage
Replication

VMFS

VMFS

VMFS

VMFS

vSphere Replication

Protected Site

Recovery Site

Site Recovery
Manager Plug-In

Site Recovery
Manager Plug-In

Site Recovery
Manager Server

vCenter Server

vCenter Server

Site Recovery
Manager Server

VRMS

ESXi

ESXi

VRMS

VR Agent

VRS
Replication

Storage

VMFS

Storage

VMFS

LINKS

VMFS

VMFS

Array-Based Replication

Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication Operational Limits http://vmw.re/XvXSTZ

Creating Certificates for Site Recovery Manager http://bit.ly/SRMCerts
Protected Site

Recovery Site

Required Ports for Access http://vmw.re/1kPFgbU

Site Recovery
Best Practices: Installing vCenter
5.5 http://vmw.re/1ySwpXQ
Manager Plug-In
Site Recovery
Rackspace
Blog http://bit.ly/1ldWfoK
Manager Server

SRA

vCenter Server

Site Recovery
Manager Plug-In
vCenter Server

Site Recovery
Manager Server

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