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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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Storagearraysmustmeetthefollowingrequirements:
Array‐basedreplicationandstoragereplicationadaptersinstalledandconfigured
attheprotectedandrecoverysites.
Arraymanagementmightalsorequiretheinstallationofothervendor‐provided
components.Someofthesecomponentsmightneedtobeinstalledonthesame
hostastheSRMserver;othersmightrequireonlynetworkaccessbytheSRMserver.
SRMmightoccasionallyneedtorescanstoragearrays.Youcanimprovearray
rescantimesbychangingdefaultvalueoftheScsi.RescanAllHbas onESXhosts.
IfrescantimesonESXhostsarelongerthan10minutes,youmaywanttosetthe
valueofthisoptionto1.
MaskingandzoningisconfiguredforreplicatedLUNstoremoteESXhostsfor
failover.VMwarerecommendsthatyouconfigurestoragetocreateclonesor
snapshotsofthereplicatedLUNs.Snapshotsorclonesmustbemaskedtothe
recoveryESXhosts.
UnlesstheSRMserverandVirtualCenterserverareinstalledonthesamehost,you
mustaddthefollowingportstotheWindowsFirewallexceptionlisttoenable
interprocesscommunicationbetweenSRMandVirtualCenter:
SRMCommunicationsSOAPport(default8095)
SRMClientDownloadHTTPport(default8096)
SRMExternalAPISOAPport(default9007)
SRM Hardware and Software Requirements
TheSRMhardwaremustmeetthefollowingrequirements:
Processor–2.0GHzorhigherIntelorAMDx86processor.
Memory–2GBminimum.
DiskStorage–2GBminimum.
Networking‐Gigabitrecommended.
VMwareSRMrunsonthefollowingMicrosoftWindowsoperatingsystems:
WindowsXPProfessionalwithSP2
Windows2003ServerR2
Windows2003ServerSP1(allreleasesexcept64‐bit)
Windows2000ServerSP4withUpdateRollup1