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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 3 Installing or Updating Site Recovery Manager
6AttheDestinationFolderscreen,choosethefolderinwhichyouwanttoinstall
SRMandclickNext.
Thepathnametotheinstallationfoldercannotbelongerthan240characters,and
cannotincludeanynon‐ASCIIcharacters.
7EnterthefollowinginformationabouttheVirtualCenterserveratthesitewhere
youare
installingSRM:
VirtualCenterAddress‐EnterthehostnameorIPaddressofthe
VirtualCenterServer.
TheVirtualCenterServerandtheSRMservermustbeinthesamedomain.
Enterthehostnameinlowercase.Afterinstallationiscompleteandyouare
configuringtheconnectionbetweentheprotectedandrecoverysites,you
mustsupplythishostname
orIPaddressexactlyasyouenterithere.
VirtualCenterPort‐Acceptthedefaultorenteranotherport.
VirtualCenterUsername‐ EnterauserIDthathasadministratorprivilegeson
thespecifiedVirtualCenterServer.
VirtualCenterPassword‐EnterthepasswordforthespecifieduserID.
ClickNext.TheinstallercontactsthespecifiedVirtualCenterserverandvalidates
theinformationyousupplied.
8 Selectasourceforthecertificateusedtoauthenticateserverconnections:
TohaveSRMcreateandinstallacertificate,selectAutomaticallygenerate
certificateandclickNext.
Entertextvaluesforyourorganizationandorganizationunit,typicallyyour
companynameandthenameofyourgroupwithinthecompany.The
maximumlengthofthecombinedvaluescannotexceed80characters.
TouseanexistingPKCS#12certificatefile,selectUseaPKCS#12certificate
fileandclickNext.
Enterthepathtothecertificatefile.Thecertificatefilemustfilecontainexactly
onecertificatewithexactlyoneprivatekeymatchingthecertificate.
Enterthecertificatepasswordifnecessary.
9Enterthefollowingadditional
information:
LocalSiteName—AuniquenameforthisinstallationofSRM.Each
installationofSRMatasitemusthaveauniqueidentifier.
Administratore‐mail—Thee‐mailaddressofthepersonorgroupwho
monitorsSRMandrespondstoalertsornotifications.