Specifications

25 Deploying VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager with NetApp FAS/V-Series Storage Systems
creates NFS exports. Then SRM initiates a storage rescan on each of the ESX hosts.
If you are using NFS storage the adapter will create NFS exports, exporting the volumes to each
VMkernel port reported by SRM and SRM will mount each exported volume.
Below is an example of NFS datastores being mounted by SRM at the DR site during a DR test. Note
that SRM uses each IP address that was provided in the NFS IP Addresses field above. The first
recovered datastore is mounted at the first NFS IP address provided. All ESX hosts mounting that
datastore use this same IP. Then the second datastore being recovered is mounted at the second NFS
IP address, likewise by all ESX hosts accessing the datastore. This is required to make sure that all
ESX hosts recognize the same mounts as the same datastores.
SRM continues mounting datastores on all ESX hosts (which ESX hosts is determined by SRM
inventory mappings), alternating between each NFS IP address provided as each datastore is
recovered. SRM does not currently provide a mechanism to specify which IP address should be used
for each datastore. Some environments might have two, three, four, or more IP addresses on the
NetApp array to enter into the NFS IP Addresses field.
5. After all the virtual machines have been recovered and the test run of the recovery plan has paused, the
network map in the vSphere client will change as shown here that recovered virtual machines have
been connected to the bubble network. A test of the functionality of the virtual machines in the bubble
network can now be performed.