2V0-621D · Question #233
Your company is planning to migrate your datacenter to a new location, but they wish to minimize downtime during the transition. You are entirely virtualized at your primary datacenter, and have…
The correct answer is C. vCenter Site Recovery Manager. To minimize downtime during a datacenter migration of a fully virtualized environment, a solution for orchestrating the movement and failover of virtual machines between sites is needed. vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is purpose-built for such controlled, large-scale…
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Your company is planning to migrate your datacenter to a new location, but they wish to minimize downtime during the transition. You are entirely virtualized at your primary datacenter, and have been given funding to acquire new hardware for the new datacenter. Which of the following products can help you migrate the VMs to the new datacenter?
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- AvCenter Operations Manager
- BvCenter Configuration Manager
- CvCenter Site Recovery Manager
- DvCenter Converter
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To minimize downtime during a datacenter migration of a fully virtualized environment, a solution for orchestrating the movement and failover of virtual machines between sites is needed. vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is purpose-built for such controlled, large-scale migrations.
vCenter Operations Manager is used for performance monitoring, capacity planning, and troubleshooting, not for orchestrating datacenter migrations.
vCenter Configuration Manager focuses on compliance and configuration management of the virtual environment, not on migrating virtual machines between locations.
vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is designed for automating the migration and disaster recovery of virtual machines between two sites. In a planned datacenter migration scenario, SRM can orchestrate the replication of VMs and then perform a controlled failover to the new datacenter, significantly reducing downtime during the transition process.
vCenter Converter is primarily used for converting physical machines to virtual machines (P2V) or virtual machines from other platforms (V2V), but it is not designed for orchestrated, low-downtime, large-scale datacenter migrations.
Concept tested: vSphere disaster recovery and planned migration
Source: https://docs.vmware.com/en/Site-Recovery-Manager/index.html
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