Administrator Guide

Requirement Description
• Install and congure Storage Manager Primary Data
Collector on the recovery site; install and congure Storage
Manager Remote Data Collector on the protected site.
Storage Center Conguration
• VMware vSphere server objects must be created on both
the source and destination Storage Centers.
• Replication QoS Nodes must be dened on the source and
destination Storage Centers.
Storage Manager Users Three users are required:
• To install SRM: A Storage Manager user that can access all
Storage Centers at the protected and recovery sites.
• To manage the protected site with SRM: A Storage
Manager user that can access only the Storage Centers at
the protected site.
• To manage the recovery site with SRM: A Storage
Manager user that can access only the Storage Centers at
the recovery site.
Communication between Storage Manager and SRM The rewall (if any) between SRM and Storage Manager must
allow SOAP over HTTP on TCP port 3033.
Replications
• Using Storage Manager, create replications or Live Volumes
from the protected site to the recovery site.
• Source and destination volumes must not be replicating
anywhere else.
• Restore points for replications must be validated and saved.
Restore Points Restore points are not available to VMware vCenter SRM until
they have been saved. Using Storage Manager, save restore
points for the replications. If you are using Data Collectors on
both the recovery and protected sites, you must save restore
points on both sites.
Dell SRA with Stretched Storage and vMotion
Dell SRA version 16.3.10 includes support for Stretched Storage with VMware Sitre Recovery Manager (SRM). Stretched Storage
allows SRM to manage Storage Center Live Volume replications. vMotion, when used with stretched storage, allows virtual machines
to migrate to another host without downtime.
To enable vMotion on Storage Center Live Volumes managed with SRM perform the following steps:
• Enable vMotion on ESXi hosts
• Congure vCenter servers in enhanced linked mode
Storage Manager SRA Congurations
This section presents two supported congurations for using VMware Site Recovery Manager with Storage Manager: using a
primary Data Collector only, or using a primary Data Collector and a remote Data Collector.
NOTE: For information on setting up Stretched Storage for Live Volumes, see VMware documentation for conguring
Stretched Storage.
Primary Data Collector Only Conguration
In the following gure, the Protected and the Recovery sites are connected by a single Storage Manager Primary Data Collector.
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Storage Replication Adapter for VMware SRM