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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
4IntheCommandspaneontheSummarytab,clickCreateProtectionGroup.
5IntheProtectionGroupNamefield,enteranameforthegroup.
6ClickNext.
7 Selectthedatastoregrouptoaddtotheprotectiongroup.
Onlyonedatastoregroupcanbeassociatedwiththeprotectiongroup.
The associationcannotbe
modifiedlater.
8ClickNext.
9 Selectarecoverysitedatastoreinwhichtostorethefilesforthevirtualmachines
inthisprotectiongroup.
Thedatastorestoresmetadataforthevirtualmachineandnotthe.vmdkfileor
files.Themetadataconsistsof.vmsd,.vmxand.vmxffilesand
iswrittentothe
datastoretoallowthevirtualmachinestobeaddedtotheVirtualCenterinventory
attherecoverysite.
Wheninventorymappingsaredefinedforvirtualmachinesintheselected
datastoregroup,SRMstartsprotectingthosevirtualmachines.Iftheyarenot
defined,anemptyprotectiongroupiscreated
andthevirtualmachinesstatusis
NotConfigured.
10 ClickFinish.
YourprotectiongroupisaddedtoProtectionGroupsintheinventory.
Virtualmachineconfigurationisdoneontheprotectiongroup’sVirtualMachinestab.
Formoreinformation,see“ConfiguringVirtualMachineProperties”onpage 49.
Configuring Virtual Machine Properties
SRMcreatesplaceholdervirtualmachinesintherecoverysiteinventory.Eachofthese
placeholdersrepresentsavirtualmachineattheprotectedsite,andprovidesan
inventoryentryattherecoverysiteforthatvirtualmachine.
Propertycustomizationsforprotectedvirtualmachinesarerecoverysiteobjects,and
mustbeconfiguredwhileyou
areconnectedtotherecoverysite.Resourcesettingsof
protectedvirtualmachinesarenotreplicated,becausetheyusearbitraryunitswhich
mayhavenomeaningattherecoverysite.