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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
Contents
About This Book 5
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Administering VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 7
Protected Sites and Recovery Sites 7
Array-Based Replication 8
About Protection Groups and Recovery Plans 10
Understanding Recovery and Test Recovery 11
Operational Limits of Site Recovery Manager 12
About Failback 12
SRM and vCenter 13
About the Site Recovery Manager Database 14
SRM Licensing 14
SRM Authentication 14
How SRM Uses Network Ports 16
Site Recovery Manager Roles and Permissions 16
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Installing and Updating Site Recovery Manager 19
Configuring the SRM Database 19
Microsoft SQL Server Configuration 20
Oracle Server Configuration 20
DB2 Server Configuration 21
Install the SRM Server 21
Install the Storage Replication Adapters 23
Update the SRM Server 23
Install the SRM Client Plug-In 24
Revert to a Previous Release 25
Repair a Site Recovery Manager Server Installation 25
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Configuring the Protected and Recovery Sites 27
Create a Site Pair 27
Disconnect From a Protected or Recovery Site 28
Install the SRM License Key 28
Configure Array Managers 29
Configure Recovery Site Array Managers When the Protected Site Is Inaccessible 30
Rescan Arrays to Detect Configuration Changes 31
Configure Inventory Mappings 31
Apply Inventory Mappings to All Members of a Protection Group 32
Configure Resource Mappings for a Virtual Machine 32
Create Protection Groups 33
Edit a Protection Group 34
Adding and Removing Members of a Protection Group 34
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