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Prerequisites
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You installed SRM in a shared recovery site configuration.
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You connected the protected sites with the shared recovery site.
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Familiarize yourself with the procedure for configuring placeholders and mappings. For information
about configuring placeholders and mappings in a standard configuration, see Chapter 10, “Creating
SRM Placeholders and Mappings,” on page 79.
Procedure
1 Click Sites in the SRM interface on the protected sites and use the Resource Mappings, Folder
Mappings, Network Mappings, and Placeholder Datastores tabs to configure the mappings.
Option Action
Share customer resources
Map the resources, networks, and datastores on the protected sites to a
common datacenter, network, and placeholder datastore on the shared
recovery site. You can create individual folders for each customer on the
recovery site and map the folders on the protected sites to the individual
folders.
Isolate customer resources
Map the resources, networks, folders, and datastores on the protected sites
to separate datacenters, networks, folders, and placeholder datastores on
the shared recovery site.
2 (Optional) If you use vSphere Replication, select vSphere Replication > Datastore Mappings on the
protected sites to map the datastores to a datastore or datastores on the shared recovery site.
The datastore mappings determine in which datastores on the recovery site vSphere Replication places
replicated virtual machines.
Option Action
Share customer resources
Map the datastores on the protected sites to a common datastore on the
shared recovery site. You can create individual folders for each customer
on the recovery site and map the folders on the protected sites to the
individual folders.
Isolate customer resources
Map the datastores on the protected sites to separate datastores on the
shared recovery site.
Use Array-Based Replication in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
You can use array-based replication with SRM in a shared recovery site configuration in the same way as
you do in a standard one-to-one configuration.
To use array-based replication with SRM in a shared recovery site configuration, you must install storage
arrays and storage replication adapters (SRA) on each of the protected sites. Each protected site can use a
different type of storage array.
Each protected site can either share the same storage on the shared recovery site, or you can allocate storage
individually for each protected site. The type of storage that you use on the shared recovery site can be
different than the storage that you use on the protected sites. You can use storage from multiple vendors on
the shared recovery site. You must install the appropriate SRA for each type of storage that you use on the
shared recovery site.
For information about protection and recovery limits when you use array-based replication with SRM in a
shared recovery site configuration, see KB 2008061.
Prerequisites
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You installed SRM in a shared recovery site configuration.
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