Users Guide

Chapter 1: Installing and configuring the SRA................................................................................4
About VMware Site Recovery Manager.........................................................................................................................4
Planned migration.......................................................................................................................................................... 4
Disaster recovery........................................................................................................................................................... 4
Protected sites and recovery sites..................................................................................................................................4
SRM requirements...............................................................................................................................................................5
Configuring the ME4 Series storage systems.............................................................................................................. 5
Configure replication.....................................................................................................................................................5
Install SRM software.......................................................................................................................................................... 6
Install the SRA software.................................................................................................................................................... 6
Configure SRM.....................................................................................................................................................................6
Chapter 2: Using SRM for disaster recovery.................................................................................. 7
Volume discovery.................................................................................................................................................................7
Create a recovery plan....................................................................................................................................................... 7
Test a recovery plan............................................................................................................................................................7
Failover and failback........................................................................................................................................................... 8
Automatic failover............................................................................................................................................................... 8
Reprotection......................................................................................................................................................................... 9
Automated failback............................................................................................................................................................. 9
Chapter 3: Troubleshooting......................................................................................................... 10
Chapter 4: Best practices............................................................................................................ 13
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