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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
30 Disaster Recovery with Dell PS Series SANs and VMware vSphere Site Recovery Manager | TR1073
RDP sessions, mapped drives or connections to iSCSI volumes. These are all processes to be tested
and documented in the case of a true failover. If there was an error, troubleshoot the issue, correct
the error and re-run the test. A log of the test can be exported for auditing purposes.
7. Once you have verified the test failover of the individual virtual machines, click Cleanup to finish the
test and clean up the environment. SRM will re-configure the VMs to point towards the temporary
datastore, and remove the isolated test network. It will then unregister the storage from ESXi hosts
and delete the clone volumes to free space on the array. Within a few minutes the recovery site
environment will be back to the way it was before the test was run.
This testing process provides the ability to find errors or mistakes and to fine tuning the DR recovery
plan before a true disaster happens. All without disrupting the production environment.