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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
10 Enter the database configuration information and click Next.
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Database Client— Select a database client type from the pulldown control.
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Data Source Name
— Select and existing DSN from the pulldown, or click ODBC DSN Setup to view
existing DSNs or create a new one.
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Username—A user ID valid for the specified database.
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Password—The password for the specified user ID.
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Connection Count—The initial connection pool size.
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Max Connections—The maximum number of database connections that can be open simultaneously.
For more information about any of these values, see “About the Site Recovery Manager Database,” on
page 14.
NOTE If a database exists at the DSN that you provide, you are prompted to either use it or overwrite it.
11 Click Install.
12 When the wizard completes, click Finish.
What to do next
You can now install SRAs at each site. See “Install the Storage Replication Adapters,”
on page 23.
Install the Storage Replication Adapters
A Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) is a program provided by an array vendor that enables SRM to work
with a specific kind of array. You must install an appropriate SRM on the SRM server hosts at the protected
and recovery sites.
Prerequisites
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SRM server installation creates a directory in which you can install the SRAs. Install the SRM server before
you install the SRAs.
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Your SRA might require the installation of other vendor-provided components. Some of these components
might need to be installed on the SRM server host; others might require only network access by the SRM
server.
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SRM might occasionally need to rescan storage arrays. You can improve array rescan times by changing
default value of the Scsi.RescanAllHbas on ESX hosts. If rescan times on ESX hosts are longer than
10 minutes, you may want to set the value of this option to 1.
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Masking and zoning must be configured for replicated devices to remote ESX hosts for failover. VMware
recommends that you configure storage to create clones or snapshots of the replicated devices. Snapshots
or clones must be masked to the recovery site ESX hosts.
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