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VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0
Evaluation Guide
ABBREVIATION DESCRIPTION
RTO Recovery time objective
PG Protection group
Storage area network–type datastore shared between managed hosts
VR vSphere Replication
vSphere Replication agent
VRMS vSphere Replication Management Server
VRS vSphere Replication server
The following DR and SRM terminology is used throughout this guide:
DR AND SRM
TERMINOLOGY
DESCRIPTION
Replication of virtual machines that is managed and executed by the storage
subsystem itself, rather than from inside the virtual machines, the vmkernel or
the Service Console.
vSphere Replication
to provide replication of virtual machines via SRM.
vSphere hosts.
Event that occurs when the recovery site takes over operation in place of the
protected site after the declaration of a disaster.
Reversal of failover, returning IT operations to the primary site.
Reprotect Reversal of direction of replication, and automatic reprotection of
protection groups.
Datastore Storage unit of a managed vSphere host.
Host vCenter-managed vSphere hosts.
SRM Server Short form for VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager™ Server. SRM Server
extends vCenter Server to provide disaster recovery capabilities for VMware
customers. It enables integration with array-based replication, discovery and
management of replicated datastores, and automated migration of VMware
inventory from one vCenter server to another.
Protected VM
Unprotected VM
Protected site The site that initially contains the protected VMs.
Recovery site The site to which virtual machines will fail over.
Datastore group Replicated datastores containing complete sets of protected VMs.
Protection group
testing or recovery.
Enables SRM to interact with a storage array replication engine.
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