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3 Dell EMC SC Series: VMware Site Recovery Manager Best Practices | 2007-M-BP-V
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Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Acknowledgments ............................................................................................................................................................... 2
Table of contents ................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 5
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 6
2 Setup prerequisites ...................................................................................................................................................... 7
2.1 Storage Replication Adapter ............................................................................................................................... 7
2.2 Dell Storage Manager ......................................................................................................................................... 7
2.3 SC Series ............................................................................................................................................................ 7
2.4 VMware vSphere ................................................................................................................................................ 7
3 Site Recovery Manager architecture ............................................................................................................................ 8
3.1 Array-based replication: single protected site .................................................................................................... 8
3.2 Array-based replication: dual protected site ....................................................................................................... 9
3.3 Array-based replication: Live Volume stretched storage .................................................................................. 10
3.4 vSphere replication: single protected site ......................................................................................................... 12
3.5 vSphere replication: dual protected site ........................................................................................................... 13
4 Dell Storage Manager configuration ........................................................................................................................... 14
4.1 Data Collector configuration ............................................................................................................................. 14
4.2 Data Collector logins ........................................................................................................................................ 14
4.3 Creating dedicated SRA access accounts ....................................................................................................... 15
4.4 Saving restore points manually ........................................................................................................................ 15
4.5 Disable automatic restore point saving............................................................................................................. 16
4.6 Validating restore points ................................................................................................................................... 17
4.7 Modifying SRM settings for larger environments and stretched storage .......................................................... 17
4.8 Modifying settings for SRM 8.2 and stretched storage..................................................................................... 19
5 Configuring replication ................................................................................................................................................ 19
5.1 Asynchronous replication ................................................................................................................................. 20
5.2 Synchronous replication ................................................................................................................................... 20
5.3 QoS definitions ................................................................................................................................................. 20
5.4 Live Volume replication .................................................................................................................................... 20
5.5 Data consistency while replicating the frozen snapshot ................................................................................... 21
5.6 Data consistency while replicating the active snapshot ................................................................................... 23
5.7 Replication dependencies and replication transfer time ................................................................................... 24
5.8 SRM selectable snapshot ................................................................................................................................. 25