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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 SRM Database
- About the vSphere Replication Management Database
- Install the SRM Server
- Upgrading SRM
- Install Storage Replication Adapters
- Install the SRM Client Plug-In
- Connect the Sites
- Revert to a Previous Release
- Repair or Modify the Installation of a Site Recovery Manager Server
- Install the SRM License Key
- Establishing Inventory Mappings and Placeholder Datastores
- Configuring Array-Based Protection
- Installing vSphere Replication Servers
- Creating Protection Groups and Replicating Virtual Machines
- Limitations to Protection and Recovery of Virtual Machines
- Create Array-Based Protection Groups
- Create vSphere Replication Protection Groups
- Configure Replication for a Single Virtual Machine
- Configure Replication for Multiple Virtual Machines
- Replicate Virtual Machines Using Physical Couriering
- Move a Virtual Machine to a New vSphere Replication Server
- Apply Inventory Mappings to All Members of a Protection Group
- Recovery Plans and Reprotection
- Customizing Site Recovery Manager
- Customizing a Recovery Plan
- Configure Protection for a Virtual Machine or Template
- Configure Resource Mappings for a Virtual Machine
- Configure SRM Alarms
- Working with Advanced Settings
- Troubleshooting SRM
- Index
Procedure
1 Use the vSphere Client to pair the SRM servers.
2 Configure SRM storage.
Use the storage report generated by the installer for required information.
a Refresh SRAs on both the local and remote site.
SRM 5.0 requires different versions of SRAs from previous versions such as SRM 4.1.
b Create array managers for the SRAs.
c Enable replicated array pairs.
d Verify datastores are replicated as expected.
3 Use the srm-migration.exe utility to import the configuration that was exported to an XML file by the
installer as described in “Update the SRM Server,” on page 35.
SRM Migration Utility
Use the SRM Migration utility (srm-migration.exe) to import SRM 4.1 inventory and, optionally, upgrade SRM
4.1 Mass IP Customization files (CSVs).
The SRM Migration tool performs the following tasks:
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Connect to local and remote vCenter and SRM servers.
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Verify SRM server pairing.
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Create inventory mappings.
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Create protection groups at the local site and protect virtual machines. This process re-uses placeholder
virtual machines created with SRM 4.1.
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Create protection groups at the remote site. This task is applicable to bi-directional setup only.
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Create recovery plans at the remote site and protect virtual machines. This process re-uses placeholder
virtual machines created with SRM 4.1.
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Create recovery plans at the local site. This task is applicable to bi-directional setup only.
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Link newly created recovery plans with the recovery plan history preserved in the database.
You can display the options for the srm-migration utility by running the command with no arguments. The
help included with command line utility provides the following information.
srm-migration.exe takes the following arguments:
-cmd <command> : importConfig
-cfg <file path> : Full path to SRM server XML config file vmware-dr.xml
-lcl-csv-file <file path> : (Optional) File containing SRM 4.1 IP settings for Vms recovered at
the local site.
-lcl-csv-file <file path> : (Optional) File containing SRM 4.1 IP settings for Vms recovered at
the local site.
-lcl-usr <username> : local vCenter server username
-rem-usr <username> : remote vCenter server username
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