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Table Of Contents
- Site Recovery Manager Administration Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Administering VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
- Installing and Updating Site Recovery Manager
- Configuring the Protected and Recovery Sites
- Test Recovery, Recovery, and Failback
- Customizing Site Recovery Manager
- Assign Roles and Permissions
- Customizing a Recovery Plan
- Configure Protection for a Virtual Machine or Template
- Configure SRM Alarms
- Working with Advanced Settings
- Avoiding Replication of Paging Files and Other Transient Data
- Troubleshooting SRM
- Index
The SRM database at each site holds information about virtual machine configurations, protection groups, and
recovery plans. SRM cannot use the vCenter database because it has different database schema requirements,
though you can use the vCenter database server to create and support the SRM database. Each SRM site requires
its own instance of the SRM database. The database must exist before SRM can be installed. If the SRM database
at either site becomes corrupted, the SRM servers at both sites shut down.
NOTE If you reinitialize the database after you install SRM, you must run the SRM installer in repair mode
and specify a new database connection.
Microsoft SQL Server Configuration
A Microsoft SQL Server configuration must meet specific requirements to support SRM.
Microsoft SQL Server has the following configuration requirements when used as the SRM database:
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There are three requirements for the database schema:
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It must be owned by the SRM database user (the database user name you supply when configuring
the SRM database connection).
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It must have the same name as the SRM database user.
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It must be the default schema for the SRM database user.
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The SRM database user must have database administrator privileges.
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The SRM database user must be granted the following permissions:
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bulk insert
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connect
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create table
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create view
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If you are using Windows authentication, the SRM server and database server must run on the same host.
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If the SRM server and database server run on different hosts, you must use mixed mode authentication.
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If SQL Server is installed locally, you might need to disable the Shared Memory network setting on the
database server.
Oracle Server Configuration
An Oracle Server configuration must meet specific requirements to support SRM.
Oracle Server has the following configuration requirements when used as the SRM database:
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The SRM database user (the database user name you supply when configuring the SRM database
connection) must be granted the following permissions:
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connect
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resource
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create session
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create view
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