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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
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Array-Based Replication 8
About Protection Groups and Recovery Plans 10
Understanding Recovery and Test Recovery
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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 15
How SRM Uses Network Ports 16
Site Recovery Manager Roles and Permissions 17
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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 24
Install the SRM Client Plug-In 25
Revert to a Previous Release 25
Repair a Site Recovery Manager Server Installation 26
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Configuring the Protected and Recovery Sites 29
Create a Site Pair 29
Disconnect From a Protected or Recovery Site 30
Install the SRM License Key 30
Configure Array Managers 31
Configure Recovery Site Array Managers When the Protected Site Is Inaccessible 32
Rescan Arrays to Detect Configuration Changes 33
Configure Inventory Mappings 33
Apply Inventory Mappings to All Members of a Protection Group 34
Configure Resource Mappings for a Virtual Machine 35
Create Protection Groups 35
Edit a Protection Group 36
Adding and Removing Members of a Protection Group 37
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