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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
Procedure
1 Open a vSphere Client and connect to the vCenter server at the protected site.
Log in as a vSphere administrator.
2 On the vSphere Client Home page, click the Site Recovery icon.
3 In the Site Recovery tree view, navigate to the protection group that includes the virtual machine that you
want to configure.
4 On the Virtual Machines page, right-click a virtual machine and click Configure Protection.
If you have established inventory mappings, they are applied.
5 In the Edit Virtual Machine Properties window, configure mappings as needed.
For most virtual machines, the only required mappings are Folder, Compute Resource, and Network. You
can also change resource mappings and other virtual machine properties. See “Configure Protection for
a Virtual Machine or Template,” on page 54.
Create Protection Groups
SRM organizes virtual machines into protection groups based on the datastore group that they use. All virtual
machines in a protection group store their files on the same replicated datastore, and all failover together.
To create a protection group, you select a replicated datastore group to protect, and then specify a nonreplicated
datastore at the recovery site where SRM can create placeholders for members of the protection group.
Prerequisites
Before you can create a protection group, you must connect the protected site and recovery site and then
configure the array managers. To be protected, a virtual machine must have folder, network connection, and
resource pool assignments that are valid at the recovery site. Unless you intend to configure these mappings
individually for each member of the group, configure inventory mappings before you create protection groups.
NOTE You can include virtual machine templates in a protection group. Inventory mappings are applied to
these templates, and they can be customized as needed. Protected templates, like protected virtual machines,
appear as placeholders at the recovery site. If you convert a protected template to a virtual machine or convert
a protected virtual machine to a template, the converted object loses its protection and must be reconfigured.
Procedure
1 Open a vSphere Client and connect to the vCenter server at the protected site.
Log in as a vSphere administrator.
2 On the vSphere Client Home page, click the Site Recovery icon.
3 In the Protection Setup area of the Summary window, navigate to the Protection Groups line and click
Create.
4 On the Name and Description page of the Create Protection Group wizard, type a name and optional
description for the protection group, and click Next.
5 On the Select a Datastore Group page, select a datastore group from the list, and click Next.
The datastores listed were discovered when you configured the array managers. Each datastore in the list
is replicated to the recovery site and supports at least one virtual machine at the protected site. When you
select a datastore, the virtual machines that it supports are listed in the VMs on the selected datastore
group field, and are automatically included in the protection group.
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