VMware Live Recovery Is Now VCF Protection and Recovery: What Changed in VCF 9.1?

This article explains the rebranding of VMware Live Recovery to VCF Protection and Recovery in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1. It clarifies that the new name represents a broader protection stack, not a single backup product. The article details the layers: vSAN Protection and Recovery for local snapshots, remote replication for offsite copies, Site Recovery Manager for DR orchestration, VCF Automation for governed self-service, Advanced Cyber Compliance for isolated cyber recovery, and VCF Fleet Disaster Recovery for management plane recovery. It emphasizes that these layers have different failure domains, licenses, and workflows, and warns against treating them as interchangeable. The core lesson is understanding the stack to design effective protection and recovery architectures.