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And there isn't any reason to clone.
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SRM, provides Failover and Fallback, and can be used in conjunction with SANs and SAN technology to mirror data between them, using SAN connectors, or if you have dissimilar SANs you can use VMware Replication.<br />
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SRM is expensive and somewhat complicated to get configured correctly, you may want to consider Veeam Backup and Replication or Nakivo Backup and Replication.
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SRM, provides Failover and Fallback, and can be used in conjunction with SANs and SAN technology to mirror data between them, using SAN connectors, or if you have dissimilar SANs you can use VMware Replication.

SRM is expensive and somewhat complicated to get configured correctly, you may want to consider Veeam Backup and Replication or Nakivo Backup and Replication.

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I get the reply from the responsible of the sharepoint team that they need a cloning strategy to be able to recover from human error.<br />
what's your take ?
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I get the reply from the responsible of the sharepoint team that they need a cloning strategy to be able to recover from human error.
what's your take ?

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or does cloning have to be part of a true disaster recovery strategy.
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or does cloning have to be part of a true disaster recovery strategy.

Can a standard SRM failover be considered a true Distater Recovery Strategy

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

Disaster Recovery is the planning for and creation of policies and procedures related to the resumption or continuation of an organization's functions following a catastrophic event. The term is most frequently used in relation to failure of networks, but DR preparations also include other business systems and personnel considerations.

Disaster Recovery

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.