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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
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Thischapterdescribesthehardware,operatingsystem,andlicensingrequirementsfor
VMwareSiteRecoveryManager(SRM).Usetheinformationinthischaptertoensure
thatyourenvironmentmeetstherequirementsforinstallation.
SeetheSiteRecoveryManagerCompatibilityMatrixesforacompletelistofSRM
compatibilityrequirements.
Thischapterincludesthefollowing
topics:
“PrerequisitesforSRMInstallation”onpage 19
“SRMHardwareandSoftwareRequirements”onpage 20
“SRMDatabaseRequirements”onpage 21
“ConfigurationMaximums”onpage 23
“SRMLicensing”onpage 24
Prerequisites for SRM Installation
VMwareInfrastructuremustmeetthefollowingrequirements:
TheVirtualCenterServer2.5Update1orhigherandVIClient2.5installedand
runningattheprotectedandrecoverysites.TheVirtualCenterServerhostshould
haveastaticIPaddressifpossible.
VirtualmachinesresidingonESXhoststhattheVirtualCenterServermanages,in
datastoreshostedonreplicatedarrays.
Noreplicateddatastorecanbeaccessiblefrommorethanonedatacenter.
System Requirements
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