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Table Of Contents
- Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration
- Contents
- About VMware Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration
- Updated Information
- Overview of VMware Site Recovery Manager
- Site Recovery Manager System Requirements
- Creating the Site Recovery Manager Database
- Site Recovery Manager Authentication
- Creating SSL/TLS Server Endpoint Certificates for Site Recovery Manager
- Installing Site Recovery Manager
- Site Recovery Manager and vCenter Server Deployment Models
- Site Recovery Manager in a Two-Site Topology with One vCenter Server Instance per Platform Services Controller
- Site Recovery Manager in a Two-Site Topology with Multiple vCenter Server Instances per Platform Services Controller
- Site Recovery Manager in a Single Site Topology with a Shared Platform Services Controller
- Prerequisites and Best Practices for Site Recovery Manager Server Installation
- Install Site Recovery Manager Server
- Connect the Site Recovery Manager Server Instances on the Protected and Recovery Sites
- Establish a Client Connection to the Remote Site Recovery Manager Server Instance
- Install the Site Recovery Manager License Key
- Site Recovery Manager Server Does Not Start
- Unregister an Incompatible Version of vSphere Replication
- Site Recovery Manager and vCenter Server Deployment Models
- Modifying and Uninstalling Site Recovery Manager
- Modify a Site Recovery Manager Server Installation
- Reconfigure the Connection Between Sites
- Break the Site Pairing and Connect to a New Remote Site
- Repair a Site Recovery Manager Server Installation
- Rename a Site Recovery Manager Site
- Uninstall Site Recovery Manager
- Uninstall and Reinstall the Same Version of Site Recovery Manager
- Upgrading Site Recovery Manager
- Information That Site Recovery Manager Upgrade Preserves
- Types of Upgrade that Site Recovery Manager Supports
- Upgrade Site Recovery Manager
- Order of Upgrading vSphere and Site Recovery Manager Components
- Prerequisites and Best Practices for Site Recovery Manager Upgrade
- In-Place Upgrade of Site Recovery Manager Server
- Upgrade Site Recovery Manager Server with Migration
- Configure and Verify the Upgraded Site Recovery Manager Installation
- Revert to a Previous Release of Site Recovery Manager
- Installing Site Recovery Manager to Use with a Shared Recovery Site
- Shared Recovery Sites and vCenter Server Deployment Models
- Limitations of Using Site Recovery Manager in Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Site Recovery Manager Licenses in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Install Site Recovery Manager In a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Use vSphere Replication in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Install Site Recovery Manager Server on Multiple Protected Sites to Use with a Shared Recovery Site
- Install Multiple Site Recovery Manager Server Instances on a Shared Recovery Site
- Connect the Site Recovery Manager Sites in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Use Array-Based Replication in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Configure Placeholders and Mappings in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Upgrade Site Recovery Manager in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Index
3 At the SRM Plug-in ID page, select Custom SRM Plug-in Identifier, provide information to identify
this custom Site Recovery Manager extension, and click Next.
Option Description
SRM ID
Enter a unique identifier for this pair of Site Recovery Manager Server
instances. The Site Recovery Manager 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
Site Recovery Manager ID, and they cannot appear adjacent to one
another.
Organization
Enter a string of up to 50 ASCII characters to specify the organization that
created the extension.
Description
Enter a string of up to 50 ASCII characters to provide a description of the
extension.
4 Follow the prompts to complete the remainder of the installation.
5 Repeat the procedure on each of the sites to protect.
Connect each Site Recovery Manager Server to its own vCenter Server instance. Assign a unique
Site Recovery Manager ID to each Site Recovery Manager Server.
What to do next
For each Site Recovery Manager Server that you installed on a protected site, install a corresponding
Site Recovery Manager Server instance on the shared recovery site.
Install Multiple Site Recovery Manager Server Instances on a Shared Recovery
Site
In a shared recovery site configuration, you can install multiple Site Recovery Manager Server instances that
all extend the same vCenter Server instance on the shared recovery site.
The Site Recovery Manager Server instances that you install on a shared recovery site each correspond to a
Site Recovery Manager Server on a protected site.
Prerequisites
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You created one or more protected sites, each with a Site Recovery Manager Server instance for which
you configured a unique Site Recovery Manager plug-in ID. Click Site Recovery > Sites in the
vSphere Web Client, select a site and click Summary to check the Site Recovery Manager plug-in ID of
the Site Recovery Manager instance to which you are connecting this instance.
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Download the Site Recovery Manager installation file to a folder on the Site Recovery Manager Server
host.
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This information presumes knowledge of the standard procedure for installing Site Recovery Manager.
See “Install Site Recovery Manager Server,” on page 34 for information about a standard
Site Recovery Manager installation.
Procedure
1 Double-click the Site Recovery Manager installer, select an installation language, and click OK.
2 Follow the prompts to begin the Site Recovery Manager installation.
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