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Table Of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 VMware SRM terminology
- 3 Overview and prerequisites
- 4 Configuring array based replication
- 5 Installation and configuration of VMware SRM
- 6 SRM protection groups
- 7 Recovery plans
- 8 Testing
- 9 Recovery
- 10 Failback
- 11 Considerations for guest iSCSI connected volumes
- 12 Summary
- A Technical support and resources
23 Disaster Recovery with Dell PS Series SANs and VMware vSphere Site Recovery Manager | TR1073
Note: A datastore can only reside in one protection group, but a protection group can be a part of one or
more recovery plans. This enables the creation of recovery plans that recover only a single datastore of
VMs, multiple datastores of VMs, or the entire site.
5. Verify the setting on the final screen and click Finish.
6. Follow this same procedure for all of the protection groups that need to be configured. In order to be
protected with SRM, each replicated datastore must belong to a protection group.
7. As the protection groups are created, you will see placeholder VMs being registered on the recovery
site. SRM will also notify you if there are any errors in protecting the VMs. The following is an
example of a finished protection group.