VMware Site Recovery Manager (BIG-IP v11: LTM, GTM, APM)

This F5 deployment guide This guide provides procedures for configuring the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Global Traffic Manager (GTM), and Access Policy Manager (APM) with VMware SRM. This document also presents guidance on how to configure the virtual infrastructure that will participate in site recovery with SRM.
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager extends VMware vCenter to enable automated cold migrations (i.e., a shut down state) of virtual machines (VMs) from one data center to another. Together, SRM and the F5 BIG-IP can simplify the implementation and mitigate the need for scripting in a recovery architecture. Specifically, with BIG-IP GTM, the scripting of DNS server changes can be eliminated and post-move IP address changes can be automated.  With BIG-IP LTM, the need to reassign IP addresses can often be avoided altogether.
In this deployment guide we provide examples on how to address these two issues with SRM. In the first section, we show how BIG-IP LTM can be used to control IP addresses of guests between data centers. In the second section, we show how BIG-IP GTM can be used to deliver new DNS entries to client requests for the VM guests and/or Virtual IPs after the failover event.  In the third section, we give an example on how to properly configure SRM applications using Access Policy Manager, as there are special considerations when using APM with route domains.