SRM 5.1 vSphere Replication supports fail and reprotect

VMware confirms that the new vCenter Site Recovery manager has added Reprotect and Failback feature with vSphere Replication. Previously it was only possible with Storage Array based Replication


What's New

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.1 adds the following new features and improvements.

• SRM 5.1 supports reprotect and failback with vSphere Replication. Previously, you could only perform reprotect and failback on array-based protection groups. In SRM 5.1 you can perform reprotect and failback on vSphere Replication protection groups.

• The SRM Server in SRM 5.1 is now a fully 64-bit application.

• Improved handling of datastores in the all paths down (APD) state. If SRM detects that a datastore on the protected site is in the all paths down (APD) state and is preventing a virtual machine from shutting down, SRM waits for a period before attempting to shut down the virtual machine again. The APD state is usually transient, so by waiting for a datastore in the APD state to come back online, SRM can gracefully shut down the protected virtual machines on that datastore.

• Improved disk resignaturing for VFMS disks.

For more refer: http://www.vmware.com/support/srm/srm-releasenotes-5-1-0.html