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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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3Configureinventorypreferencestosettheglobalmappingsforallprotection
groupstoinherit.
4 Createprotectiongroupsthatdefinevirtualmachinesthatfailovertogether.
5Configureindividualvirtualmachinesandsetthedefaultstoinheritfrom
inventorymappingsandthesettingsontheirprotectiongroup.
Requirements for VMware Infrastructure Configuration
Beforeyouconfigurearraymanagers,youneedthefollowingVMwareInfrastructure
configuration:
Adatacenterontheprotectedandrecoverysites.
ESXhostsattheprotectedandrecoverysites.
Ifyouneedtosupportuseofcertaintypesofsnapshotsattherecoverysite
(snapshotstakenwhenthevirtualmachineispoweredonorsuspended),theESX
hostsatbothsitesmusthavecompatibleCPUs,asdefinedintheVMware
knowledgebase
articlesVMotionCPUCompatibilityRequirementsforIntelProcessors
(article1991)andVMotionCPUCompatibilityRequirementsforAMDProcessors
(article1992).ThehostsmustalsohavethesameBIOSfeaturesenabled.Ifthe
servers’BIOSconfigurationsdonotmatch,theystillshowacompatibilityerror
messageeveniftheyareotherwise
identical.Thetwomostcommonfeaturesto
checkareNon‐ExecuteMemoryProtection(NX/XD)andVirtualization
Technology(VT/AMD‐V).
Virtualmachinestobeprotectedontheprotectedsite.
Forinformationaboutconfiguringdatacenters,hosts,andresourcepools,seethe
VMwareInfrastructureServerConfigurationGuide.
Configure Array Managers
Aftertheprotectedandrecoverysitesareconnectedtoeachother,configurethearray
managerssothatSRMcanidentifyavailablearraysandreplicatedLUNs.Array
managersusestoragereplicationadapters,whicharesuppliedbyarrayvendors.When
youconfigurearraymanagers,yousupplyinformationaboutthearraysthatyouwant
touse.SRMusesthisinformationtodiscoverthearraysavailabletotheSRMserverand
thereplicatedLUNsthattheysupport.Formoreinformation,see“A r r a y ‐Based
Replication”onpage 13.