VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0 Performance and Best Practices

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5.0 provides business continuity and disaster recovery protection for VMware virtual environments. Protection can range from virtual machines (VMs) residing on a single, replicated datastore to all the VMs in a datacenter and includes protection for the operating systems and applications running in the VM. The goal of this white paper is to provide you with SRM performance data and recommendations so that you can architect an efficient recovery plan that minimizes the recovery time for your environment. This white paper addresses various dimensions on which the recovery time depends: • Number of virtual machines and protection groups associated with a recovery plan • Leveraging DPM and DRS for a better recovery • Configuration of various recovery plan parameters • Priority assignment of virtual machines in the recovery plan • Improvements to the performance of recovering multiple protection groups within a single recovery plan Furthermore, VMware suggest best practices in applicable areas so that you can optimize the recovery time using SRM.

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/srm5-perf.pdf