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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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Chapter 2 System Requirements
TheSRMplug‐inisinstalledintheVIClient.TheSRMplug‐inisdesignedtorunon
MicrosoftWindowsoperatingsystemsandisdesignedforthe32‐bitversionsofthe
followingoperatingsystems:
Windows2000ProfessionalwithSP4UpdateRollup1(MSIinstaller
version 3.1.4000.2435orlater)
WindowsXPProfessional32‐bitwithSP2(MSIinstallerversion3.1.4000.2435or
later)
Windows2003withSP1(allreleasesexcept64‐bit)
Windows2003ServerR2
WindowsVistaBusiness
WindowsVistaEnterprise
TheVIClientrequirestheMicrosoft .NET2.0Framework.Ifyoursystemdoesnot
haveitinstalled,theVIClientinstallerinstallsit.
SRM Database Requirements
TheSRMdatabaseateachsiteholdsinformationaboutvirtualmachineconfigurations,
protectiongroups,andrecoveryplans.SRMcannotusetheVirtualCenterdatabase
becauseithasdifferentdatabaseschemarequirements.YoucanusetheVirtualCenter
databaseservertocreateandsupporttheSRMdatabase.
Eachsiterequiresitsowninstanceof
theSRMdatabase.Thedatabasemustexistbefore
SRMcanbeinstalled.YoumustnotreinitializethedatabaseafterSRMinstallationis
complete.DoingsowillcauseSRMtofail.IfyoumustreinitializetheSRMdatabase,
reinstallSRM,specifyinganewdatabaseconnection,afterthereinitializationis
complete.
Eachdatabase
requiresadditionalconfigurationafterthebasicinstallation.See
“MicrosoftSQLServerConfiguration”onpage 22and“OracleServerConfiguration”
onpage 23.
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OTETheSRMserverhostshouldhaveastaticIPaddressifpossible.