To provide automated orchestration and business continuity for VMware virtual machines in a disaster recovery scenario, the industry-standard solution integrated with HPE storage is VMware Live Site Recovery (formerly known as VMware Site Recovery Manager or SRM).

When a customer utilizes Asynchronous Remote Copy on HPE Alletra 9000 arrays, the storage layer handles the data replication between the production and recovery sites. However, the storage array alone cannot automate the re-registration of virtual machines, the mapping of network port groups, or the specific power-on sequencing required for complex applications at the secondary site. VMware Live Site Recovery serves as the orchestration engine that bridges this gap. It works in conjunction with a Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) provided by HPE. The HPE SRA allows the VMware software to communicate directly with the Alletra 9000 arrays to initiate tasks such as promoting recovery volumes to a read-write state, taking temporary snapshots for DR testing, and automating the "failover" and "failback" workflows.

As shown in the exhibit (image_6601ef.jpg), a complete solution requires an SRM appliance and a vCenter appliance at both the production and recovery sites. This architecture ensures that even if the primary site is completely lost, the recovery site has all the necessary metadata and orchestration instructions to bring the business-critical VMs online with minimal manual intervention. Option A (Lifecycle Management) is for patching and updates, Option D (Storage DRS) is for load balancing within a cluster, and Option C refers to operational monitoring rather than disaster recovery orchestration. For a customer already invested in Alletra 9000 Remote Copy, VMware Live Site Recovery is the "Better Together" choice for achieving low Recovery Time Objectives (RTO).