What is failback in VMware?

After Site Recovery Manager performs a recovery, you can perform a failback to restore the original configuration of the protected and recovery sites. After a recovery from site A to site B, the recovered virtual machines are running on site B without protection.

What is VMware SRM?

VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) provides policy-based management, minimizes downtime in case of disasters via automated orchestration, and enables nondisruptive testing of your disaster recovery plans.

Does SRM require 2 Vcenters?

Yes, Site Recovery Manager requires two active and licensed vCenter Server instances, one at each site (protected and recovery).

What is SRM VMware replication?

SRM leverages VMware vSphere Replication to provide hypervisor-based virtual machine replication. It protects VMs from partial or complete site failures by copying the virtual machines from a primary site to a secondary site, or from multiple sources to a single disaster recovery site.

What is failover and failback in Azure?

During planned failover, you can select options to synchronize data before failback: Synchronize data before failover: This option minimizes downtime for virtual machines as it synchronizes machines without shutting them down. Phase 1: Takes a snapshot of the Azure VM and copies it to the on-premises Hyper-V host.

How can failback of a recovered virtual machine in Vsphere replication be performed?

After performing a successful recovery on the target vCenter Server site, you can perform failback. Click Incoming and manually configure a new replication in the reverse direction, from the target site to the source site.

How configure SRM VMware?

Install and Configure VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.3 Virtual Appliance

1. Deploy Site Recovery Manager 8.3 Virtual Appliance.
2. Configure SRM Virtual Appliance.
3. Connect to vCenter Server.
4. New Site Pair.
5. Installing Storage Replication Adapter (SRA)
6. Configure Array Pair.
7. Configure Inventory Mappings.

How much does VMware SRM cost?

about $3,000 a year
VMware SRM Pricing Advice What users are saying about VMware SRM pricing: “It is about $3,000 a year for the 25 pack. The package gives you the ability to protect up to 25 virtual machines.”

What is the difference between vSphere replication and SRM?

vSphere Replication license is included in vSphere Enterprise Plus, while SRM is an independent product and is a per VM or per CPU (as part of vCloud Suite Enterprise) license. vSphere Replication protects your VMware Virtual Environment by replicating your VMware environment (site) to a secondary site.

What is failback in Azure?

Failback policy: To replicate back to your on-premises site, you need a failback policy. This policy is automatically created when you create a replication policy from on-premises to Azure. This policy is automatically associated with the configuration server. You can’t edit this policy.

How do you failover a VM?

Run a failover. On the VM Overview page, select Failover. In Failover, choose a recovery point. The Azure VM in the target region is created using data from this recovery point.