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The shared recovery site is ready to receive replicated virtual machines that you recover from the protected
sites by using array-based replication.
Configure Placeholders and Mappings in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
When you configure placeholders and mappings in a shared recovery site configuration, the customers of
the shared recovery site can share the resources on the recovery site. Alternatively, you can assign isolated
resources to each customer.
On a shared recovery site, multiple customers share a single vCenter Server instance. In some cases,
multiple customers can share a single ESXi host on the recovery site. You can map the resources on the
protected sites to shared resources on the shared recovery site. You might share resources on the recovery
site if you do not need to keep all of the customers' virtual machines separate, for example if all of the
customers belong to the same organization.
You can also create isolated resources on the shared recovery site and map the resources on the protected
sites to their own dedicated resources on the shared recovery site. You might use this configuration if you
must keep all of the customers' virtual machines separate from each other, for example if all of the
customers belong to different organizations.
For information about how to assign permissions to allow users to access the resources on a shared recovery
site, see Managing Permissions in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration in Site Recovery Manager
Administration.
Prerequisites
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You installed Site Recovery Manager 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 Site Recovery Manager
Administration.
Procedure
1 In the vSphere Web Client, click Site Recovery > Sites, and select a site.
2 In the Manage tab, use the Network Mappings, Folder Mappings, Resource Mappings, Storage Policy
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.
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