Contents
1 Installing and conguring the SRA..................................................................................................................4
About VMware Site Recovery Manager..........................................................................................................................4
Planned migration.........................................................................................................................................................4
Disaster recovery..........................................................................................................................................................4
Protected sites and recovery sites...................................................................................................................................5
SRM requirements............................................................................................................................................................. 5
Conguring the ME4 Series storage systems................................................................................................................ 5
Congure replication....................................................................................................................................................5
Install SRM software..........................................................................................................................................................6
Install the SRA software....................................................................................................................................................6
Congure SRM...................................................................................................................................................................6
2 Using SRM for disaster recovery................................................................................................................... 8
Volume discovery............................................................................................................................................................... 8
Create a recovery plan.......................................................................................................................................................8
Test a recovery plan...........................................................................................................................................................9
Failover and failback...........................................................................................................................................................9
Automatic failover.............................................................................................................................................................10
Reprotection......................................................................................................................................................................10
Automated failback...........................................................................................................................................................10
3 Troubleshooting............................................................................................................................................ 11
4 Best practices.............................................................................................................................................. 14
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