This is a Site Recovery Manager 5.8 Guide to help understand the design, installation, operation and architecture of setting up VMware SRM 5.8

Official Documentation Links

Additional Resources

If you want some great resources to continue learning VMware Site Recovery Manager, I suggest checking out these resources:

@Mike_Laverick Author of “Administering VMware Site Recovery Manager” BLOG: mikelaverick.com

@vmKen Senior Technical Marketing Director for VMware DRBC products BLOG: http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/author/ken_werneburg

@benmeadowcraft Senior Product Manager for VMware Site Recovery Manager BLOG: http://www.benmeadowcroft.com/

@gurusimran Senior Technical Marketing Manager at VMware focusing on availability solutions BLOG: http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/author/gkhalsa

VMware Communities SRM

Home Lab

Its one thing to read how to do something, but another to get your hands on the technology. I have a post on this site dedicated to showing how you can build an SRM site all within a single host with nested ESXi hosts.

Poor Mans SRM Lab