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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
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3 Overview and prerequisites
Site Recovery Manager requires VMware vCenter server to be installed at both the protected site and the
recovery site. Each site will have its own VMware vSphere environment and datacenters. The SRM
configuration is mirrored to the recovery site SRM server so that if the primary site goes down, everything that
the recovery site needs to resume operations at the primary site is local.
VMware SRM does not automate or configure SAN storage replication between sites. This needs to be
configured by the storage administrator using the storage array management tools (see section 4 Configuring
array based replication).
Both PS Series replication and SRM require adequate network connectivity and bandwidth between the
protected site and the recovery site.
SRM will protect the VMFS datastores that the VMs reside on. All of the VMs must reside on shared storage
and be configured for replication to qualify as protected.
PS Series replication is always configured between two PS Series groups, even if all the SAN members are in
the same physical location.