Site Recovery Manager 5.0 Performance and Best Practices

This artical talks about several performance characteristics of SRM, including scalability and recovery, and how they behave in an environment that simulates real-life workloads. The paper includes several recommendations to enhance the performance of SRM and reduce recovery time. A couple of recommendations include:

• It is a good practice to have fewer but larger NFS volumes so that the time taken to mount a large number of such volumes decreases during the recovery. This might also translate to fewer protection groups on your setup leading to reduced recovery time.
• Configuring VM dependencies across priority groups instead of setting per VM dependencies is usually the best idea because VMs within each priority group will be started in parallel.

The URL, http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/srm5-perf.pdf

Eddy