2V0-21.23 Question 149
Select 3A company is planning to implement VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to protect its critical workloads. Which of the following scenarios best represent appropriate use cases for VMware SRM?
- A
Recovering virtual machines in the event of a disaster at the primary site.
- B
Ensuring high availability of virtual machines within the same data center.
- C
Performing planned migrations of workloads between two geographically separate sites.
- D
Testing disaster recovery plans in an isolated environment without impacting production workloads.
- E
Balancing workload performance between hosts in the same cluster.
Show answer and explanation
Correct answers: A, C, D
Explanation
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is a disaster recovery and site migration solution designed to enable recovery of workloads in case of site-wide failures, facilitate planned migrations, and allow for non-disruptive testing of disaster recovery plans. It is not intended for intra-data center operations like high availability or resource balancing, which are handled by other VMware technologies like vSphere HA and DRS.
- A. Correct.
Correct: VMware SRM is designed to recover workloads during disasters that impact the primary site, making disaster recovery a key use case.
- B. Incorrect.
Incorrect: High availability within the same data center is typically handled by VMware vSphere HA, not SRM.
- C. Correct.
Correct: VMware SRM supports planned migrations for scenarios like data center consolidation or maintenance, making this a valid use case.
- D. Correct.
Correct: SRM allows organizations to test disaster recovery plans in isolated environments without disrupting production workloads.
- E. Incorrect.
Incorrect: Balancing workload performance within a cluster is handled by VMware DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler), not SRM.