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14 Disaster Recovery with Dell PS Series SANs and VMware vSphere Site Recovery Manager | TR1073
5 Installation and configuration of VMware SRM
Before VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager can be installed, both the protected site and recovery site
must have their own instance of VMware vCenter Server installed and configured. The server where SRM is
installed must be able to communicate with the remote SRM server as well as have connectivity to the local
SAN. For more information consult the VMware vSphere System Administrator Documentation.
Once the vSphere virtual environment is configured on both the protected site and the recovery site, install
SRM on both sites. SRM requires a new database to be installed on both sites. The database may reside on
the same database server with the vCenter database but it cannot use the same database. For environments
with a small number of virtual machines to protect, SRM can be installed on the same server as the vCenter
server but installations may differ. For more information consult the SRM Installation and Configuration
document from VMware.
5.1 Step 1: Install Dell EqualLogic Storage Replication Adapter
Once SRM is installed on both sites, the Dell Storage Replication Adapter for VMware Site Recovery
Manager (sometimes referred to as array scripts) must be installed on each site. This adapter is necessary to
allow SRM to communicate with the PS Series SANs and to coordinate the entire process of testing, cloning
and failing over storage resources as part of disaster protection and testing. SRM does not automate the SAN
replication configuration and management process, this is done using PS Series management tools as
described in the previous steps.
1. You can download the Dell Storage Replication Adapter for VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
from the Dell PS Series support site or VMware SRM SRA site.
2. The SRA must be installed on both sites, the procedure is the same. Run the executable on each
site.
3. Click Next.