What this book covers

Chapter 1, Installing and Configuring vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5.5, introduces you to the architecture of SRM and also guides you through the process of installing and configuring SRM to leverage array-based replication.

Chapter 2, Creating Protection Groups and Recovery Plans, teaches you how to configure protection for virtual machines by creating Protection Groups and creating an orchestrated runbook with the help of Recovery Plans.

Chapter 3, Testing and Performing a Failover and Failback, teaches you how to test the recovery plans that were created and also perform a Planned Migration, a Failover, and a Failback using them.

Chapter 4, Deploying vSphere Replication 5.5, guides you through the steps required in deploying vSphere Replication Appliances and vSphere Replication Servers.

Chapter 5, Configuring and Using vSphere Replication 5.5, teaches you how to add target sites and enable replication on virtual machines and recover them. It will also teach you to configure vCenter SRM to leverage vSphere Replication engine.