NetApp White Paper Sample

The most critical part of DR is planning the response you will provide when a disaster strikes. SRM allows you to preprogram your disaster response; this is one of the most powerful benefits of the solution. Powering hundreds of servers up or down can be an enormous challenge especially in the middle of a crisis. Bringing systems online in a specific order is even more of a challenge.

The recovery plan you create during the setup phase of SRM configuration allows you to preconfigure the entire plan. SRM allows you to create the plan in a short period of time because of its built-in discovery capabilities and close integration with Virtual Center. Once a plan exists, it can be executed flawlessly with minimal user intervention. (You simply start the recovery process if and when a disaster strikes.) Creating such a plan using traditional DR approaches can take months— even years—to construct, and include a lot of error-prone manual steps.