Contents
1 VMware Site Recovery Manager overview.....................................................5
Applicable Products..................................................................................................................5
Prerequisites.............................................................................................................................5
RMSRA20 configurations...........................................................................................................6
Primary and secondary conceptual configurations for RMSRA20................................................7
Coordination process of SRM and SRA 2.0.............................................................................7
Discovery of Arrays and Devices.......................................................................................7
DiscoverArrays sequence..................................................................................................8
Discovery Devices sequence.............................................................................................8
Testing failover................................................................................................................8
Failover.........................................................................................................................8
reverseReplication command.............................................................................................9
restoreReplication command.............................................................................................9
syncOnce and querySyncstatus commands.......................................................................10
RMSRA20 local configuration..............................................................................................10
RAID Manager local configuration using VCD..................................................................11
RMSRA20 remote configuration using Telnet.....................................................................11
RAID Manager configuration on VM................................................................................12
Required RAID Manager and Array Configurations............................................................13
Relationship between Failover action and configurations..............................................................19
Example for local configuration...........................................................................................20
Example for remote (Telnet) configuration..............................................................................20
Making standalone device/consistency groups...........................................................................22
2 Installation procedure................................................................................24
Procedure for new introduction.................................................................................................24
Setting the system environment variables....................................................................................25
Defining system variables using CUI.....................................................................................25
Defining system variables using the GUI................................................................................26
Updating the software version..................................................................................................27
Version confirmation after installation........................................................................................27
Uninstallation procedure..........................................................................................................28
3 Configuring SRM and HP XP P9000 disk array............................................29
Creating Pair-Volumes for data replication groups.......................................................................29
Configuring datastores............................................................................................................29
Pairing SRM sites....................................................................................................................29
Configuring SRM (AM) to communicate with RMSRA20...............................................................30
Adding Array Manager......................................................................................................30
Verifying Array Manager on protection ................................................................................40
Verify Array Manager on Recovery......................................................................................41
Enabling devices and verifying datastores.............................................................................42
Verifying the devices and replicated datastore on recovery......................................................43
Create protection groups.........................................................................................................44
Create recovery plans.............................................................................................................44
4 Executing failover and failback with SRM....................................................45
Failover.................................................................................................................................45
Failback scenario with SRM.....................................................................................................45
Migration to site B, due to a disaster at site A........................................................................45
Migration to site B, due to a planned or host down (ESX server) at site A..................................45
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