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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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To remove the out-of-date protected virtual machines from inventory on Site A
1AtSiteA,rescanthehostbusadapters(HBAs)onallthehosts.Thismakesiteasier
toidentifytheprotectedvirtualmachines,becausetheynowappearinvalidinthe
inventory,asdoestheprotectiongrouptowhichtheyareassigned.
2AtSiteA,removePG2fromtherecovery
plan,thendeletePG2.
3 SelectalltheprotectedvirtualmachinesatSiteAthatwererecoveredtoSite B.
Right‐clicktheselectedvirtualmachinesandselectRemove from Inventoryto
removethehighlightedprotectedvirtualmachinesfromtheinventoryatSite A.
To failback from Site B to Site A
1CompletetheArrayManagerconfigurationwizardatSiteB,which
nowhasthe
sourceLUNconfiguredatSiteBandthetargetLUNconfiguredatSiteA.The
recoverysitearraymanagernowbecomestheprotectedsitearraymanager,and
theprotectedsitearraymanagernowbecomestherecoverysitearraymanager.
2ConfigureinventorymappingsatSiteB.
Theseinventorypreferences
areassignedtotheprotectedvirtualmachineswhen
theyarerestartedatSiteAafterthefailback.
3AtSiteB,configurePG2tofailbacktoSiteA.
4AtSiteA,configureRP2.
DonotdeleteRP1,whichyoucreatedatSiteBtoprotectthedesignatedvirtual
machines
atSiteA.
5 ClickTesttote sttherecoveryplanwithclonesorsnapshotsofthetargetLUNson
theprotectedsite.Ifthetestissuccessful,clickRuntorunanactualrecoveryofRP 2.
Thefollowingfigureillustratesthestorageconfigurationaftertherecoveryagainst
RP2completes.
Site A — recovery site Site B — protected site
target LUN
(shared-san-2)
source LUN
(shared-san-2)
Write Disabled
(read only)
Read Write
enabled
protected
virtual machines
(app_vm7 to app_vm12)
apps
apps
apps
apps
apps
apps
OS
apps
apps
apps
apps
apps
apps
OS
all
powered
on by SRM
during the
SRM Recovery
protected
virtual machines
(app_vm7 to app_vm12)
all
powered
off by SRM
at start of
SRM Recovery