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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
Configure a Placeholder Datastore
Specify a placeholder datastore for SRM to use for the storage of placeholder virtual machines.
Prerequisites
Verify that sites are connected and paired.
Procedure
1 Click Sites in the left pane, and select a site
2 Click the Placeholder Datastores tab.
3 Click Configure Placeholder Datastore.
4 Expand the folders to find a datastore to designate as the location for placeholder datastores, click the
datastore, and click OK.
The selected placeholder datastore appears in the Datastore column. If the datastore is on a standalone
host, the host name appears. If the datastore is on a host that is in a cluster, the cluster name appears.
NOTE If an array manager is replicating datastores, but the array manager is not configured with SRM,
the option to select the replicated datastore might be available. Do not select replicated datastores.
Previously configured and replicated datastores appear but you cannot select them.
Configure Datastore Mappings for vSphere Replication Management
Configure datastore mappings to determine which datastores are used to store replicated virtual machine disks
and configuration files at the recovery site. Use datastore mappings when you configure vSphere Replication
(VR) for virtual machines as a way to select the default destination datastores.
Datastore mappings are determined based on the source datastores of the virtual machines being configured
for replication. A source datastore can be a single datastore containing a single virtual machine, or many
datastores with many virtual machines with files spread across the datastores. When configuring replication
for a single virtual machine, mappings may be overridden, but when configuring replication for multiple
virtual machines, you use only datastore mappings, and you cannot override these mappings.
Datastores can be nested within objects, so you might need to expand folders or datacenters to find a datastore.
Procedure
1 Click vSphere Replication in the left pane, and select a site.
2 Click the Datastore Mappings tab, and select one or more source datastores.
3 Click Configure Mapping.
4 Browse to and select a datastore to map to at the recovery site.
Select Inventory Mappings
Mappings provide default locations and networks for use when placeholder virtual machines are initially
created on the recovery site.
Unless you intend to configure these mappings individually for each member of the group, configure inventory
mappings before you create protection groups. Inventory mappings provide a convenient way to specify how
resources at the protected site are mapped to resources at the recovery site. These mappings are applied to all
members of a protection group when the group is created, and can be reapplied as needed, such as when new
members are added. If you create a protection group and no mappings exist, you must configure each protected
virtual machine individually. While SRM does not enforce an inventory mapping requirement, a virtual
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