Chapter 11. Custom Recovery Plans

So far we have simply accepted the default settings from the Recovery Plan. As you might expect and hope, it is possible to heavily customize the Recovery Plan. Customized Recovery Plans allow you to control the flow of the recovery process. Together with customized virtual machine mappings they allow you to completely automate the common tasks performed when invoking your DR plan. The creation of multiple Recovery Plans with different settings allows you to deal with different causes and scenarios that trigger the use of your Recovery Site—and additionally allows you to test those plans to measure their effectiveness. With custom Recovery Plans you can control and automate a number of settings. For example, ...

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