Administrator Guide
Storage Manager SRA Congurations
This section presents two supported congurations 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 conguring Stretched
Storage.
Primary Data Collector Only Conguration
In the following gure, the Protected and the Recovery sites are connected by a single Storage Manager Primary Data Collector.
Figure 79. SRA Conguration with a Single Data Collector
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Protected site 2 Recovery site
3 VMware SRM server at protected site 4 VMware SRM server at recovery site
5 Primary Data Collector at recovery site 6 Storage Center at protected site
7 Storage Center at recovery site
In a conguration with only one Storage Manager Data Collector, locate the Data Collector at the Recovery Site.
Remote Data Collector Conguration
In the following conguration, the Protected Site is connected to a Storage Manager Primary Data Collector; the Recovery Site is
connected to a Storage Manager Remote Data Collector.
Storage Replication Adapter for VMware SRM
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