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Getting Started with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
Figure 1. SRM Architecture
About the Protected and Recovery Sites
InatypicalSRMinstallation,theprotectedsiteprovidesbusiness‐criticaldatacenterservices,andtherecovery
siteprovidesanalternatefacilitytowhichtheseservicescanbemigrated.
Theprotectedsitecanbeanysitewherevirtualinfrastructuresupportsacriticalbusinessneed.Therecovery
sitecanbelocatedthousandsofmilesaw
ayorinthesameroom.Inthetypicalcase,therecoverysiteislocated
inafacilitythatisunlikelytobeaffectedbyanyenvironmental,infrastructure,orotherdisturbancesthataffect
theprotectedsite.SRMhasseveralrequirementsforthevSphereconfigurationsateachsite
 EachsitemustincludeatleastonevSpheredatacenter.
 Therecoverysitemustsupportarray‐basedreplicationwiththeprotectedsite,andmusthavehardware
andnetworkresourcesthatcansupportthesamevirtualmachinesandworkloadsastheprotectedsite.
 Atlastonevirtualmachinemustbelocatedonareplicateddatastoreattheprotectedsite.Thisdatastore
mustbesupportedbyastoragearraythatiscompatiblewithSRM.
 TheprotectedandrecoverysitesshouldbeconnectedbyareliableIPnetwork. Storagearraysmighthave
additionalnetworkrequirements.
 Therecoverysiteshouldhaveaccesstothesamepublicandprivatenetworksastheprotectedsite,though
notnecessarilythesamerangeofnetworkaddresses.
Installing and Configuring SRM
SRMincludesaservercomponentthatmustbeinstalledateachsiteandaclientplug‐inthatyoudownload
fromtheserverandinstallinavSphereClientthatyouusetomanageSRMservices.Figure 2illustratesa
typicalSRMinstallation.
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