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Table Of Contents
- Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration
- Contents
- About Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration
- Overview of VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
- Site Recovery Manager System Requirements
- Creating the SRM Database
- SRM Authentication
- Installing SRM
- Upgrading SRM
- Configuring Array-Based Protection
- Installing vSphere Replication
- Deploy the vSphere Replication Appliance
- Configure vSphere Replication Connections
- Reconfigure the vSphere Replication Appliance
- Reconfigure General vSphere Replication Settings
- Change the SSL Certificate of the vSphere Replication Appliance
- Change the Password of the vSphere Replication Appliance
- Change Keystore and Truststore Passwords of the vSphere Replication Appliance
- Configure vSphere Replication Network Settings
- Configure vSphere Replication System Settings
- Reconfigure vSphere Replication to Use an External Database
- Use the Embedded vSphere Replication Database
- Deploy an Additional vSphere Replication Server
- Register an Additional vSphere Replication Server
- Reconfigure vSphere Replication Server Settings
- Unregister and Remove a vSphere Replication Server
- Uninstall vSphere Replication
- Unregister vSphere Replication from vCenter Server if the Appliance Was Deleted
- Upgrading vSphere Replication
- Creating SRM Placeholders and Mappings
- Installing SRM to Use with a Shared Recovery Site
- Limitations of Using SRM in Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- SRM Licenses in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Install SRM In a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Install SRM Server on Multiple Protected Sites to Use with a Shared Recovery Site
- Install Multiple SRM Server Instances on a Shared Recovery Site
- Install the SRM Client Plug-In In a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Connect to SRM in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Connect the SRM Sites in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Configure Placeholders and Mappings in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Use Array-Based Replication in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Use vSphere Replication in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Troubleshooting SRM Installation and Configuration
- Cannot Restore SQL Database to a 32-Bit Target Virtual Machine During SRM Upgrade
- SRM Server Does Not Start
- vSphere Client Cannot Connect to SRM
- Site Pairing Fails Because of Different Certificate Trust Methods
- Error at vService Bindings When Deploying the vSphere Replication Appliance
- OVF Package is Invalid and Cannot be Deployed
- vSphere Replication Appliance or vSphere Replication Server Does Not Deploy from the SRM Interface
- Connection Errors Between vSphere Replication and SQL Server Cannot be Resolved
- 404 Error Message when Attempting to Pair vSphere Replication Appliances
- vSphere Replication Service Fails with Unresolved Host Error
- Increase the Memory of the vSphere Replication Server for Large Deployments
- vSphere Replication Appliance Extension Cannot Be Deleted
- Uploading a Valid Certificate to vSphere Replication Results in a Warning
- vSphere Replication Status Shows as Disconnected
- vSphere Replication Server Registration Takes Several Minutes
- vSphere Replication is Inaccessible After Changing vCenter Server Certificate
- Index
Storage Replication Adapters
Storage replication adapters are not part of an SRM release. Your array vendor develops and supports them.
You can download storage replication adapters by going to
https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads and selecting VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager >
View Components > Go to Downloads. VMware does not support SRAs that you download from other
sites. You must install an SRA specific to each array that you use with SRM on the SRM Server host. SRM
supports the use of multiple SRAs.
Figure 1‑2. SRM Architecture with Array-Based Replication
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Using vSphere Replication with SRM
SRM can use vSphere Replication to replicate data to servers at the recovery site.
You deploy vSphere Replication as a virtual appliance. The vSphere Replication appliance contains two
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A vSphere Replication management server:
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Configures the vSphere Replication server on the recovery site.
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Enables replication from the protected site.
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Authenticates users and checks their permissions to perform vSphere Replication operations.
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Manages and monitors the replication infrastructure.
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A vSphere Replication server:
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Listens for virtual machine updates from the vSphere Replication host agent on the protected site.
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Applies the updates to the virtual disks on the recovery site.
If necessary, you can deploy multiple vSphere Replication servers on a site to balance the replication load
across your virtual infrastructure.
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