Users Guide

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VMware Site Recovery Manager overview
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) interacts with the storage arrays by using the Storage Replicator Adaptor (SRA) to
discover and replicate storage Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs), or virtual disks, between Disaster Recovery (DR) sites. Also, the SRA
interacts with the storage array to provide failover and test failover capabilities to the SRM allowing automated failover between DR
sites. SRAs are developed and provided by the storage array vendors.
Figure 1. SRM Architecture
There are several tasks that you must complete to congure SRM. Some of these tasks are completed only for vSphere Replication
(VR) or for array-based replication. If your environment uses both types of replication, consider all tasks, but if not, you may have to
only complete a subset of the total possible set of tasks.
The set of tasks are as follows:
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