Disaster Recovery for Dell PowerFlex using VMware Site Recovery Manager
Best practices
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- Deploy SRM on the controller cluster for PowerFlex rack.
- Deploy SRM on the management node/cluster for PowerFlex appliance.
- Ensure PowerFlex replication and RCG states are always healthy.
- Perform regular recovery plan testing.
- Perform proper capacity planning to ensure that the recovery site always has enough resources while disaster recovery failover process.
- Implement proper monitoring and alerting solutions to detect and identify site failures.
- Use planned migrations for disaster avoidance.
- Follow SRM best practices as mentioned in VMware documentation.