Part 1 – Site Recovery Manager Database Setup
The first part of our guide to install and configure VMware Site Recovery Manager, is to configure the database. When installing and configuring Site Recovery Manager, there are a couple of items that...
View ArticlePart 2 – Site Recovery Manager Installation
Log onto the SRM application server Locate and start up the SRM installation program Select your language and then click ‘OK’ After a short while the installation wizard will begin… click ‘Next’. On...
View ArticlePart 3 – Installing the XIV SRA
To utilise the XIV storage to perform the replication tasks, we need to install the XIV SRA (Storage Replication Adapter). This is the process to be performed to install the XIV SRA. Please note that...
View ArticlePart 4 – Site Recovery Manager Site Pairing
The next stage in our process is to connect the two Site Recovery Managers together – this means that your vCenters do not need to be configured in Linked Mode. This process is called pairing. Open up...
View ArticlePart 5 – Configuring the XIV SRA
Although we have gone through and connected together the Site Recovery Manager instances between the local and remote sites, and have installed the SRA software to connect to the XIVs, we haven’t...
View ArticlePart 6 – Site Recovery Manager Inventory Mappings
This stage is all about configuring the Inventory Mappings. This includes resource mappings, folder mappings, network mappings and placeholder datastores. This is basically linking the resources...
View ArticlePart 7 – Protection Groups
It’s now time to create a protection group, this is the group of virtual machines we want to have protected and replicated to the second location. Click the ‘Protection Groups’ option at the bottom of...
View ArticlePart 8 – Recovery Plans
Now we reach the stage of creating a recovery plan. Click ‘Recovery Plans’ in the Site Recovery Manager portal Click ‘Create Recovery Plan’ You are now asked to select the site where the VMs will be...
View ArticlePart 9 – Testing Recovery Plan
The next stage is to test our recovery plan. You should always test the recovery plan prior to performing a recovery (unless you are in a situation where testing isn’t possible). The testing will...
View ArticlePart 10 – Recovery and Failback
The final stage of our process is to go ahead and perform a failover and failback of some virtual machines. This should be performed using an unimportant virtual machine… please note that during the...
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