VMware Live Recovery delivers powerful cyber and data resiliency for VMware Cloud Foundation. Customers can protect applications and data from modern ransomware and other disasters across VMware Cloud Foundation environments on-premises and in public clouds with flexible licensing for changing business needs and threats.

0. VMware Live Recovery offers ransomware recovery and disaster recovery leveraging two technology stacks:
   
   • VMware Live Cyber Recovery (formerlyknownasVMwareCloud Disaster Recovery)
     
   • VMware Live Site Recovery (formerlyknownasVMwareSiteRecoveryManager) 

VMware Live Cyber Recovery

VMware Live Cyber Recovery is a technology stack under VMware Live Recovery and is an easy-to-use, on-demand disaster recovery (DR) solution, delivered as SaaS, with cloud economics.

Using a simple, cloud-based UI you can configure backup policies to protect your VMs and DR plans to orchestrate the recovery of those VMs. Backups are encrypted and stored in the native vSphere VM format in a highly efficient cloud storage layer called the Scale-out Cloud File System (SCFS) instead of primary vSAN storage in a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC. When disaster strikes, with a few clicks you can recover your VMs to VMware Cloud on AWS using your pre-tested DR plans. The service can be used to quickly provision VMware resources and SDDCs in VMware Cloud on AWS. The recovered VMs can be immediately powered on using the stored backups via a “live mount”, i.e. an NFS datastore automatically mounted to all hosts in that SDDC.

VMware Live Cyber Recovery’s “live mount” capability provides fast recovery without time-consuming rehydration of the backup data from cloud storage to VMware Cloud on AWS hosts. The backed-up data is immediately available in the recovery SDDC via an NFS datastore mounted to the SDDC hosts. A small deployment of pre-provisioned pilot light hosts makes the recovery process even faster.

VMware Live Cyber Recovery keeps your protected VMs in their native vSphere VM format which eliminates the need for brittle VM conversions that slow down recovery and make failback error-prone.

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VMware Live Site Recovery

VMware Live Site Recovery is the industry-leading disaster recovery management solution. VMware Live Site Recovery offers automated orchestration and non-disruptive testing of centralized recovery plans for all virtualized applications.

VMware Live Site Recovery supports on-premises to on-premises disaster recovery.

VMware Live Site Recovery integrates with VMware vSphere through VMware vCenter Server and an underlying replication technology. It can integrate natively with vSphere Replication or with a broad range of storage array-based replication solutions from leading storage vendors through storage replication adapters or VMware Virtual Volumes. VMware Live Site Recovery guides users through the process of configuring recovery plans. At the time of failover or testing, VMware Live Site Recovery automates the execution of the recovery plan.