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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
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Site Recovery Manager Process Overview
WithSRM,youcansetuparecoverysitethatcontinuouslyreplicatesyourproduction
site.Youdevelopadisasterrecoveryplan,resultinginaprocessthatistestedtomeet
yourrecoveryobjectives.Ifadisasteroccurs,thefailoverprocessenablesyoutobring
resourcesbackintoserviceinorderof
priority.
Install SRM
SRMincludesaservercomponentthatmustbeinstalledateachsiteandaclientplug‐in
thatyoudownloadfromtheserverandinstallinaVIClientthatyouusetomanage
SRMservices.Figure 1‐2illustratesatypicalSRMinstallation.
Figure 1-2. SRM Installation Architecture
EachsitehasaVirtualCenterServerhost,
whichisaWindowsmachinethatrunsthe
VirtualCenterservice.TheSRMservershouldbeinstalledonadedicatedserverhostif
possible,butcanbeinstalledontheVirtualCenterServerhostifnecessary.Storage
replicationadaptersareinstalledontheSRMserverhost.TheSRMdatabaseateachsite
holds
informationaboutvirtualmachineconfigurations,protectiongroups,and
recoveryplans.SRMcannotusetheVirtualCenterdatabasebecauseithasdifferent
databaseschemarequirements.YoucanusetheVirtualCenterdatabaseservertocreate
andsupporttheSRMdatabase.
protected site recovery site
storage
replication
adapter
storage
replication
adapter
block replication
software
block replication
software
SRM server 1 SRM server 2
VirtualCenter
Server 1
VirtualCenter
Server 2
array 1 array 2
SRM 1 DB
VCMS 1 DB
SRM 2 DB
VCMS 2 DB