Site Recovery Manager can suspend virtual machines on the recovery site during a recovery and a test recovery.

Suspending virtual machines on the recovery site is useful in active-active data center environments and where non-critical workloads run on recovery sites. By suspending any virtual machines that host non-critical workloads on the recovery site, Site Recovery Manager frees capacity for the recovered virtual machines. Site Recovery Manager resumes virtual machines that are suspended during a failover operation when the failover runs in the opposite direction.

You can only add virtual machines to suspend at the recovery site.

Procedure

  1. Click the Recovery Plans tab, click a recovery plan, and click Recovery Steps.
  2. Right-click Suspend non-critical VMs at recovery site and click Add or Remove Non-Critical VM.
  3. Select virtual machines on the recovery site to suspend during a recovery.
  4. Click Save.

Results

Site Recovery Manager suspends the virtual machines on the recovery site when the recovery plan runs.