VMware Site Recovery™ is a business continuity and disaster recovery service that helps you to plan, test, and run the recovery of virtual machines to the cloud from an on-premises data center or from other another cloud Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC).
The service provides an end-to-end disaster recovery solution that can help reduce the requirements for a secondary recovery site, accelerate time-to-protection, and simplify disaster recovery operations.
VMware Site Recovery uses the host-based replication feature of vSphere Replication and the orchestration of VMware Site Recovery Manager.
With VMware Site Recovery, you can protect workloads running in an on-premises data center to a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC, workloads running on a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC to an on-premises data center, and also between different VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCs.
![VMware Site Recovery concept diagram covering both use cases.](images/GUID-74E82E50-620C-4AFB-8280-02F9E2517641-high.png)
VMware Site Recovery License Key
The VMware Site Recovery license key is part of the subscription to the service. When you pair the Site Recovery Manager on-premises instance with the Site Recovery Manager instance on VMware Cloud on AWS, VMware Site Recovery uses the cloud license.