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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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10 ClickConfigure.
11 Selectavirtualmachinefoldertomaptotherecoverysite.
12 Selectthevirtualmachinefolderthatyoucreatedattherecoverysiteforthisvirtual
machinefolderandclickOK.
Create a Protection Group
Aprotectiongroupisagroupofvirtualmachinesthatfailovertogetherattherecovery
siteduringtestandrecovery.Whenyoucreateaprotectiongroup,SRMcreatesa
placeholdervirtualmachineattherecoverysiteforeveryvirtualmachineinthe
protectiongroup.Youcannotpowerontheseplaceholdervirtual
machines,butyoucan
configurethemandmovethemwithintheinventory.
Aprotectiongroupprotectsonedatastoregroup.Thevirtualmachinesinthegroup
sharecertaincommoncharacteristics.Youcanprotectadditionalvirtualmachinesby
configuringthemandaddingthemtoaprotectiongroup.Datamovementtothe
recovery
siteisdelegatedtothereplicationprovidersspecifiedwhenyoucreatethe
groups.
Becauseaprotectiongroupisscopedtoadatastoregroup,useofStorageVMotionto
moveavirtualmachine’sstoragecanremovethevirtualmachinefromtheprotection
groupifitsstorageismovedtoadifferentdatastore.
Aprotectiongroupcanbepresentinoneormorerecoveryplans.
Tocreateaprotectiongroup,thefollowingconditionsmustbeinplace:
TheVIClientmustbeconnectedtotheprotectedsite.
TheroleofProtectionGroupAdministrator.
Fullyconfiguredarraymanagers.
To create a protection group
1UsingtheVIClient,logintotheprotectedsiteVirtualCenterServer.
2ClickSiteRecoveryontheVIClienttoolbar.
3ClickProtectionGroupsintheinventorylist.
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OTEBecausesomeoperatingsystemscachefilesystemwrites,somefilesonthe
underlyingreplicatedstorageforarunningvirtualmachinemaynotbeuptodate
whenreplicated.Whenthishappens,therecoveredvirtualmachinepowersonusing
theresultsofthemostrecentreplication,whichmaynotincludeall
changestofiles
stateontheprotectedvirtualmachine.