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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 5 Protected Site Configuration
Beforeyoucanconfigureanarraymanager,thestoragereplicationadapterforthe
managermustbeinstalledontheSRMserverhost.Youmustalsohavedocumentation
fromthearrayvendorthatprovidestheinformationyouneedtosupplywhen
configuringanarraymanager.
SRMrescansarraysevery24hoursto
detectanyLUNsthathavebeenaddedor
removed.Afteryouconfigurethearraymanagersforasite,youtypicallydonothave
toreconfigurethemunlesschangeanyoftheinformation,suchasIPaddressor
administrativecredentials,thatthearraymanagersrequire,oryouaddorremovea
LUNandwanttheSRMtorecognizethechangebeforethenextscheduledrescan.
Toconfigurearraymanagers,thefollowingconditionsmustbeinplace:
TheVIClientmustbeconnectedtotheprotectedsite.
TheroleofProtectionSRMAdministrator.
To configure array managers
1UsingaVIClient,logintotheprotectedsiteVirtualCenterServer.
2ClickSiteRecoveryontheVIClienttoolbar.
3Youarepromptedtoprovideausernameandpasswordthatarevalidatthe
recoverysite.
4OntheSummarypageoftheSiteRecoveryfor
<protected‐site‐hostname>
window,findtheArrayManagerslineunderProtectionSetup.ClickConfigure
toopentheConfigureArrayManagerswizard.
5ClickAddtoopentheAddArrayManagerwindow.
6IntheAddArrayManagerwindow,providetheinformationSRMrequiresto
connectwithastoragearray:
Typeadisplaynameforthearraymanager.Useanydescriptivenamethat
makesiteasyforyoutoidentifythearraysthatthisarraymanagermanages.
SelectastoragereplicationadapterfromtheManagerTypelist.Ifthe
managertypethatyouwanttousedoesnotappearinthelist,thestorage
replicationadapterthatsupportsithasnotbeeninstalledontheSRMhost.
Afteryouselectamanagertype,theAddArrayManagerwindowchangesto
includefieldsfortheinformationrequiredbythatmanagertype.Formore
informationaboutthevaluesforthesefields,seethedocumentationfromthe
storagearrayvendor .