VCF Protection and Recovery

Self-Service Disaster Recovery with VCF Automation: Multi-Tenant Protection Without Losing Governance

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TL;DR VCF Protection and Recovery 9.1 changes disaster recovery from a service that infrastructure administrators configure manually into a capability that organization administrators, project administrators, and authorized users can consume through VCF Automation. That does not mean every tenant should be allowed to create arbitrary replication relationships, reserve unlimited recovery capacity, or initiate a production … Explore: Self-Service Disaster Recovery with VCF Automation: Multi-Tenant Protection…

Designing a Shared VCF 9.1 Recovery Site for vSAN, VMFS, and NFS Workloads

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TL;DR VCF 9.1 changes the economics and architecture of VMware disaster recovery by allowing virtual machines on vSAN, VMFS, and NFS datastores to replicate into a vSAN ESA target. It also supports fan-in designs where multiple source clusters use one centralized recovery site. The important design point is that a shared recovery site is not … Explore: Designing a Shared VCF 9.1 Recovery Site for…

From Backup to Clean Recovery: Building an On-Premises Ransomware Clean Room with VCF 9.1

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TL;DR Immutable snapshots and replicated copies are necessary, but they are not a complete ransomware recovery architecture. A cyber incident changes the recovery question from “Can this workload be restored?” to “Which point is trustworthy, how can it be powered on safely, and what evidence is required before it returns to production?” VCF 9.1 with … Explore: From Backup to Clean Recovery: Building an On-Premises…

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, … Explore: VMware Live Recovery Is Now VCF Protection and…

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. … Explore: From SRM 8.8 to VCF Protection and Recovery…