4.7.4 Site Recovery Manager Recovery Plans
Site Recovery Manager recovery plans are the runbooks that are executed by the end customer or cloud operator in the event of a disaster. The definition of the recovery plans must be made with the failure scenarios in mind. For example, the user might require a recovery plan to recover a certain business critical application that is contained within a single protection group. This would be a recovery plan to recover those workloads only. The user can also create application dependencies within the recovery plan, such as the fact that the database server is recovered before the application and web servers. This is done by leveraging the recovery priority options:
• All priority 1 virtual machines are started before priority 2 virtual machines.
• All priority 2 virtual machines are started before priority 3 virtual machines.
• All priority 3 virtual machines are started before priority 4 virtual machines.
• All priority 4 virtual machines are started before priority 5 virtual machines.
• Startup order of virtual machines within each priority group can also be specified.
The user might also want to create a complete DR recovery plan where all workloads are recovered. This would be a recovery plan that would contain multiple protection groups.
For more information on definition of recovery plans, see the
VMware Site Recovery Manager Documentation Center.