Difference between VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Standard and Enterprise editions

Products

• VMware Live Recovery
• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

This article provides information about vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Standard and Enterprise editions.

Symptoms:

Environment

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.5.x
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.1.x
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.8.x
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0.x
VMware vCenter Server 6.0.x
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 6.0.x
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 8.x
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 6.5.x

Resolution

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager™ 6.0 (SRM) is an extension to VMware vCenter™ that provides disaster recovery capabilities to VMware customers.

There are two editions with the release of vCenter Site Recovery Manager 6.x:

• SRM 6.x Standard is designed for smaller environments and is limited to 75 protected virtual machines per physical site and per SRM instance
• SRM 6.x Enterprise is designed for bigger environment with no limitation to the protected virtual machines
  

This table outlines the features of SRM 6.x Standard and Enterprise editions:

Features	Standard	Enterprise
Centralized recovery plans	Yes	Yes
Non-disruptive testing	Yes	Yes
Automated orchestration workflows	Yes	Yes
Array-based replication support	Yes	Yes
vSphere Replication support	Yes	Yes
Stretched storage support	No	Yes
Orchestrated cross-vCenter vMotion	No	Yes
VMware NSX integration	No	Yes
Storage-profile protection groups	No	Yes