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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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Usethefollowingchecklisttotrackthefailbackstepsasyoucompletethem.
Failback Checklist
B
Prepare for failback
_____ SiteB Powerdowntheprotectedvirtualmachines.
_____ SiteB Createalistoftheprotectedvirtualmachinesthatwererecoveredto
SiteB.
_____ SiteB CleanupthedirectoryatSiteBthatcontainedthevirtualmachine
configurationfilescreatedwhenyouassignedtheprotectedmachines
toaprotectiongroup
onSiteA.
Complete a storage configuration change so that the source LUN is now Site B
_____ Storage Workwithyourstorageteamtocompleteastorageconfiguration
changesothatthesourceLUNisnowassociatedwithSiteBandthe
targetLUNisassociatedwithSiteA.
Remove out-of-date protected virtual machines from inventory on Site A
_____ SiteA Rescanthehostbusadapters(HBAs)onallthehosts.
_____ SiteA Connectto
theVirtualCenterinstanceatSiteAanddeletetheoriginal
protectiongroup(PG2).
_____ SiteA RemovealltheprotectedvirtualmachinesthatwererecoveredtoSite
BfromtheinventoryatSiteA.
Failback from Site B to Site A
_____ SiteB CompletetheArrayManagerconfigurationwizardatSiteB,which
nowhasthesourceLUN
configuredatSiteBandthetargetLUN
configuredatSiteA.
_____ SiteB ConfiguretheinventorypreferencesatSiteB.Thesearetheinventory
preferencesthatareassignedtotheprotectedvirtualmachineswhen
theyarerestartedatSiteAafterthefailback.