Yesterday VMWare announced the availability of new disaster recovery solution.
Site Recovery Manager offers non-disruptive testing and automated failover. Site Recovery Manager can manage failover from production datacenters to disaster recovery sites. It can stage failover between two sites with active workloads without any real performance issue.
Site Recovery manager offers to test the recovery plans automatically in an isolated testing environment that is independent of hardware configuration and testing can happen without affecting production systems. It is possible to test the disaster recovery plans automatically thus by avoids painful manual interventions.
Click here to learn more about VMWare Site Recovery Manager.
Site Recovery manager cannot replicate the data by itself but the end user / administrator has to rely on the storage based replication from VMWare partners.
The product will be made available in next 30 days.
