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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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Ontheprotectedsite,virtualmachinesareassignedtoprotectiongroups.Aprotection
groupisacollectionofvirtualmachinesthatallusethesamedatastoregroup(thesame
setofreplicatedLUNs)andfailovertogether.
Useprotectiongroupstocontroltheorderinwhichvirtualmachinesarerestoredafter
a
failover.Forexample,criticalbusinessapplicationsmightbeassignedtoProtection
Group1,whilelowerpriorityapplicationsareassignedtoProtectionGroup2and
optionalapplicationsareassignedtoProtectionGroup3.Intherecoveryplan,
ProtectionGroup1failsoverfirst,followedbygroup2,andthengroup3.
On
therecoverysite,createoneormorerecoveryplans.Arecoveryplanisanordered
setofstepsthatcontrolwhathappensduringafailover.Youcandevelopmultiple
recoveryplanstoaddressmultipledisasterscenarios.Settinguptheprotectedand
recoverysitesincludesthefollowingtasks:
1 Understandthedatastoregroups
youhaveavailable.SRMdeterminestheseusing
informationfromthestoragereplicationadapters.
2 Createinventorymapsfortheprotectedvirtualmachines.
3 Createprotectiongroupsforeachdatastoregroup.
4Configureprotectiongroupsettings,whichprovideconfigurationdefaultsforall
virtualmachinesintheprotectiongroup.
5 Createarecoveryplan,withprompts,scriptcallouts,
andnotificationsasneeded.
Configure Virtual Machines
SRMenablesyoutospecifyinventorypreferencesthatcontrolhowvirtualmachine
resourcessuchasfolders,resourcepools,andnetworksattheprotectedsiteare
mappedtosimilarresourcesattherecoverysite.Thisinventorymappingensuresthat
protectedvirtualmachinesareconfiguredproperlytopoweronandconnecttothe
networkattherecoverysite.