VCF Protection and Recovery

VMware Live Recovery Is Now VCF Protection and Recovery: What Changed in VCF 9.1?

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TL;DR VMware Live Recovery has been renamed and integrated into VMware Cloud Foundation as VCF Protection and Recovery. The name describes a broader protection model, but it does not represent one universal backup product. The practical model has several layers: The most important design lesson is that these capabilities have different failure domains, dependencies, licenses, … Read more

From SRM 8.8 to VCF Protection and Recovery 9.1: How VMware Disaster Recovery Became a Platform Capability

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TL;DR The path from Site Recovery Manager 8.8 to VMware Live Recovery 9.x and then VCF Protection and Recovery 9.1 is not simply a product-renaming exercise. SRM 8.8 centered on orchestrating recovery between paired sites. VMware Live Recovery expanded the boundary to include a broader disaster- and cyber-recovery portfolio, then introduced a converged appliance model. … Read more