Self-Service Disaster Recovery with VCF Automation: Multi-Tenant Protection Without Losing Governance

This article discusses how VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Protection and Recovery 9.1 transforms disaster recovery from a manual infrastructure task to a self-service capability through VCF Automation. It emphasizes the need for governance boundaries, including separate controls for requesting protection, selecting replication classes, consuming recovery capacity, defining network mappings, creating recovery plans, authorizing failovers, and recording costs. The article argues that effective self-service DR requires delegated autonomy within provider-defined service boundaries, not unrestricted access, to avoid governance risks.