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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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SRM Licensing
SRMrequirestwotypesoflicensekeys:
Aprotection‐enablementlicensekey(SRM_PROTECTED_HOST)thatspecifies
thenumberofESXCPUsthatcanrunprotectedvirtualmachinesatasite.Install
thiskeyattheprotectedsitetoenablefailover.Installitattherecoveryand
protectedsitestoenablebidirectionaloperation(failback).
Asiteenablementlicensekey(PROD_SRM)thatmustbeinstalledattheprotected
siteandtherecoverysite.Thesekeysaresuppliedwhenyoupurchaseyour
protection‐enablementkeys.
Toobtainyourlicensekeys,gototheSiteRecoveryManagerProductInformationpage
attheVMwareWebsite.
SRMlicensingchecksfor
avalidlicensewhenthehostlicenseisfirstinstalledandeach
timetheSRMhostdprogramrestarts.Licensesacquiredfromalicenseserverare
checkedeveryfiveminutes.Iflicensesarenotincompliance,VirtualCentertriggersa
licensingalarm.VMwarerecommendsthatyouconfigurealertsfortriggeredlicensing
events
sothatlicensingadministratorsarenotifiedbyemail.See“A l er t i n g and
Monitoring”onpage 75formoreinformation.
Import License Files
WhentheVMwarelicenseserverisinstalled,youcanimportSRMlicensefilesintoyour
licenseserver.Youmustinstalltheper‐sitelicenseattheprotectedandrecoverysites.
Youmustinstalltheprotection‐enablementlicenseattherecov erysitetoenabl e failover ,
andattherecoveryandprotectedsites
toenablebidirectionaloperation(failback).
FormoreinformationabouttheVMwarelicenseserver,seetheESXServer3Installation
Guide.
To enable an SRM license
1Logintothecomputerthatrunsthelicenseserverapplication.
Theprotectedandrecoverysitesshouldeachhavetheirownlicenseservers.
2CopytheSRMlicensefilethatincludesthe
PROD_SRMkeytoC:\Program
Files\Vmware\VMware License Server\Licenses\.
Licensefilesmusthavea.licextension.
3Ifthisisasitewhereyouwanttoenableprotectedvirtualmachinestorun,copy
theSRMlicensefilethatincludestheSRM_PROTECTED_HOSTkeyto
C:\Program Files\Vmware\VMware License Server\Licenses\.