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8 Dell EMC SC Series: VMware Site Recovery Manager Best Practices | 2007-M-BP-V
3 Site Recovery Manager architecture
This section provides array-based replication architecture for single- and dual-protected sites as well as Live
Volume stretched storage. vSphere replication architecture is also included for comparison purposes.
3.1 Array-based replication: single protected site
This configuration (shown in Figure 1) is generally used when the secondary site does not have any virtual
machines that need to be protected by SRM. The secondary site exists solely for disaster recovery purposes.
The DSM Data Collector server is placed at the disaster recovery site because its availability is required by
SRM to perform the recovery plan. Keep this in mind if using the SRM planned migration or reprotect feature
because the DSM Data Collector server may no longer be at the recovery site and could be impacted by an
unplanned outage at the protected site.
Architecture for a single protected site with array-based replication