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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
Install SRM Server on Multiple Protected Sites to Use with a Shared Recovery
Site
You install SRM Server to use with a shared recovery site by running the SRM installer from the command
line with a custom setup option.
When you run the installer from the command line with the custom setup option, the SRM installer presents
additional screens on which you specify a unique SRM extension ID.
For each protected site, you must install one instance of SRM Server at the protected site and one instance of
SRM Server at the recovery site. You can only pair SRM Server instances that have the same SRM extension
ID. Each protected site must include its own vCenter Server instance.
Prerequisites
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Download the SRM installation file to a folder on the SRM Server host.
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This information presumes knowledge of the standard procedure for installing SRM. See “Install the
SRM Server,” on page 29 for information about a standard SRM installation.
Procedure
1 Start the SRM installer by typing the custom setup command in a command line terminal.
VMware-srm-version-build_number.exe /v"CUSTOM_SETUP=1"
2 Follow the prompts to begin the SRM installation.
3 At the VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Plugin Identifier page of the installer, select Custom
SRM Plugin Identifier and click Next.
4 Provide information to identify this custom SRM extension and click Next.
Option Description
SRM ID
Type a unique identifier for this pair of SRM Server instances. The SRM ID
can be a string of up to 29 ASCII characters from the set of ASCII upper-
lower-case characters, digits, the underscore, the period, and the hyphen.
You cannot use the underscore, period, and hyphen as the first or last
characters of the SRM ID, and they cannot appear adjacent to one another.
Organization
Type a string of up to 50 ASCII characters to specify the organization that
created the extension.
Description
Type a string of up to 50 ASCII characters to provide a description of the
extension.
5 Follow the prompts to complete the remainder of the installation.
6 Repeat the procedure on each of the sites to protect.
Connect each SRM Server to its own vCenter Server instance. Assign a unique SRM ID to each
SRM Server.
What to do next
For each SRM Server that you installed on a protected site, install a corresponding SRM Server instance on
the shared recovery site.
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