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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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11 UsingtheVIClient,logintotherecoverysiteVirtualCenterServer.
12 ClicktheSiteRecoveryicononthetoolbar.
ThissubmitstherequiredcredentialstologintotheremoteVirtualCenterServer.
13 Accepttheremotesitecertificate.
TheProtectedSiteandRecoverySitepanesdisplaytheconnectioninformationaftera
successfulpairing.
Certificate-Based Authentication
Certificate‐basedauthenticationrequirestheuseofcertificatessignedbyacommon
trustedcertificateauthorityonallserversinvolvedinyourSRMinstallation.This
includesbothVirtualCenterandSRMservers.Suchacertificatemaybereferredtoasa
“trustedcertificate.”
Byspecifyingatrustedcertificateatinstallation,youareimplicitly
choosingtouse
certificate‐basedauthentication.Inthiscase,theSRMserverusesthecertificate
specifiedduringinstallationtoauthenticateallsubsequentcommunicationwiththe
localVirtualCenterServer.TheSRMserverdoesnotsavecredentialsspecifiedduring
theinitialinstallation.
Pairing Sites Using Certificate-Based Authentication
VMwarerecommendsthatyouusecertificate‐basedauthentication.
To connect to protected and recovery sites
1UsingtheVIClient,logintotheprotected‐siteVirtualCenterServer.
2ClicktheSiteRecoveryicononthetoolbar.
3IntheSetuppane,clickConfigure.
4EntertheIPaddressorhostnameandportnumberfortheremoteVirtualCenter
ServerandclickNext.
5VerifythateachstephasacheckmarkandclickClose.
6Fromtheprotectedsite,entertheremotecredentialsintheRemoteVirtualCenter
Serverdialogbox.
7UsingtheVIClient,logintotherecovery‐siteVirtualCenterServer.
8ClicktheSiteRecoveryicononthetoolbarandsubmittherequiredcredentialsto
completethepairing.
Theconnectioninformationappearsafterasuccessfulpairing.