6.1
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Requirements
- Evaluation Workflow
- Exercise 1: Pairing Sites
- Exercise 2: Configure Inventory Mappings
- Exercise 3: Configure placeholder datastore
- Exercise 4: Add Array Manager and Enable Array Pair (If Using Array Replication)
- Exercise 5: Create a Protection Group
- Exercise 6: Create a Recovery Plan
- Exercise 7: Testing a Recovery Plan
- Exercise 8: Running a Recovery Plan
- Exercise 9: Reprotect a Recovery Plan and Fail Back
- Exercise 10: Virtual Machine Recovery Properties
- Conclusion
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When array replication is utilized with Site Recovery Manager, protection groups are created
based on the datastore groups that are available. Consider this example: There are two LUNs
that make up a consistency group in the array replication solution. Both LUNs contain virtual
machines for a total of five virtual machines. The two LUNs are treated as a single datastore
group in Site Recovery Manager. When a protection group is created, all 5 virtual machines are
included. It is not possible to add a subset of virtual machines in the datastore group to a
protection group.
Figure 13. Protection Groups and Datastore Groups with Array Replication
Recommendation: When using array replication, organize virtual machines that are to be tested
and failed over together on the same array replicated LUN, volume, or consistency group. For
example, an application consisting of five virtual machines should be grouped together to
ensure consistent recovery. If there are other virtual machines that are not part of the
application, they should be migrated to other LUNs or volumes. Having a mix of virtual
machines protected by Site Recovery Manager and unprotected virtual machines in the same
replicated LUN, volume, or consistency group will produce warning messages in Site Recovery
Manager.
It is possible to utilize array replication and vSphere Replication in the same Site Recovery
Manager environment. However, a protection group can only contain virtual machines replicated
by one replication technology or the other. A recovery plan can contain a mixture of protection
groups based on array replication and protections groups based on vSphere Replication.
Figure 14. Creating a Protection Group