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17 Disaster Recovery with Dell PS Series SANs and VMware vSphere Site Recovery Manager | TR1073
5.2 Step 2: Configure SRM connection
Just as the PS Series SAN needs to have a partnership established for replication, vCenter SRM needs to
have a partnership established between the protected site and the recovery site.
1. To get to the SRM configuration screen, select Home. Then under Inventories click Site Recovery.
2. From the Sites section click Pair Site. Enter the hostname or IP address of the Platform Services
Controller at the recovery site. Enter in credentials for the remote site, and click Finish. The
partnership will be established.
3. This is covered in more detail in the SRM Administrator Guide, but once configured it will look similar
to the following example. This partnership is only established once and SRM will take care of
configuring both partners to see each other.
4. From the example screenshot above, note that the protected vCenter server is 100.85.221.10 and
protected SRM server is 100.85.221.11, and have been given the site name Prod Site. On the
recovery site, the vCenter server 100.85.222.10 and SRM server is 100.85.222.11, and the site name
is DR Site.