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Table Of Contents
- Administration Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Overview of Site Recovery Manager
- System Requirements
- Installing or Updating Site Recovery Manager
- Managing SRM
- Protected Site Configuration
- Recovery Site Configuration
- Failback
- Alerting and Monitoring
- Protected and Recovery Site Changes
- Preinstallation Checklist
- Failback Checklist
- Use the srm-config command to repair an SRM server connection
- Avoiding Replication of Paging Files and Other Transient Data
- Glossary
- Index
Site Recovery Manager Administration Guide
12 VMware, Inc.
Site Recovery Manager Environment
Figure 1‐1illustratesthekeycomponentsofSRM.
Figure 1-1. Prerequisite Environment for SRM
Thesecomponentsaredescribedasfollows:
VirtualCenterServer—Thecentralpointforconfiguring,provisioning,and
managingvirtualizedITenvironments.
SiteRecoveryManagerServer—AphysicalorvirtualhostonwhichSRMandone
ormorearraymanagersareinstalled.
LicenseServer—Aserverthatstoresandallocateslicenses.
OracleorSQLDatabase—PersistentstorageforSRMobjects.
ESXServers—A virtualization layer run on physical servers that abstracts processor,
memory, storage, and networking resources into multiple virtual machines.
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