VM Recovery Manager DR concepts

The VM Recovery Manager DR solution provides a highly available environment by identifying a set of resources that are required for processing the virtual machines in a server during disaster situations.

The VM Recovery Manager DR solution uses the following subsystems:

  • Controller system (KSYS)
  • Site
  • Host
  • Virtual machines (VMs) or logical partitions (LPARs)
  • Storage
  • Network
  • Hardware Management Console (HMC)
  • Virtual I/O Server (VIOS)
  • Workgroup

The following figure shows the VM Recovery Manager DR architecture:

Figure 1. Components of VM Recovery Manager DR solution
Physical components in the VM Recovery Manager DR solution