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Contents About VMware Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration 5 Updated Information 7 1 Overview of VMware Site Recovery Manager 9 About Protected Sites and Recovery Sites 10 Bidirectional Protection 11 Heterogeneous Configurations on the Protected and Recovery Sites 11 2 Site Recovery Manager System Requirements 13 Site Recovery Manager Licensing 14 Operational Limits of Site Recovery Manager 15 3 Creating the Site Recovery Manager Database 17 Requirements when Using Microsoft SQL Se
Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration Uninstall and Reinstall the Same Version of Site Recovery Manager 8 Upgrading Site Recovery Manager 53 Information That Site Recovery Manager Upgrade Preserves Types of Upgrade that Site Recovery Manager Supports 55 Upgrade Site Recovery Manager 56 50 53 9 Installing Site Recovery Manager to Use with a Shared Recovery Site 69 Shared Recovery Sites and vCenter Server Deployment Models 72 Limitations of Using Site Recovery Manager in Shared Recovery S
About VMware Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration provides information about how to install, upgrade, and configure VMware Site Recovery Manager. This information also provides a general overview of Site Recovery Manager. For information about how to perform day-to-day administration of Site Recovery Manager, see Site Recovery Manager Administration.
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Updated Information Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration is updated with each release of the product or when necessary. This table provides the update history of Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration. Revision Description EN-001771-01 Replaced "federated environment" with "Enhanced Linked Mode" throughout. EN-001771-00 Initial release. VMware, Inc.
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Overview of VMware Site Recovery Manager 1 VMware Site Recovery Manager is a business continuity and disaster recovery solution that helps you to plan, test, and run the recovery of virtual machines between a protected vCenter Server site and a recovery vCenter Server site. You can configure Site Recovery Manager to protect virtual machines in different ways.
Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration A recovery plan specifies the order in which virtual machines start up on the recovery site. A recovery plan specifies network parameters, such as IP addresses, and can contain user-specified scripts that Site Recovery Manager can run to perform custom recovery actions on virtual machines. Site Recovery Manager lets you test recovery plans.
Chapter 1 Overview of VMware Site Recovery Manager n If you are using array-based replication, the same replication technology must be available at both sites, and the arrays must be paired. n If you are using vSphere Replication, you require a vSphere Replication appliance on both sites. The vSphere Replication appliances must be connected to each other. n The vSphere Replication appliances must be of the same version.
Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration Table 1‑1. Heterogeneity of Site Recovery Manager Components Between Sites (Continued) Component Heterogeneous or Identical Installations Storage arrays for array-based replication Can be different versions on each site. You can use different versions of the same type of storage array on each site.
Site Recovery Manager System Requirements 2 The system on which you install Site Recovery Manager must meet specific hardware requirements. Table 2‑1. Minimum Site Recovery Manager System Requirements Component Requirement Processor At least two 2.0GHz or higher Intel or AMD x86 processors. Site Recovery Manager deloyments that manage large environments require four 2.0GHz CPUs. Memory 2GB minimum. You might require more memory if you use the embedded database, as the content of the database grows.
Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration Site Recovery Manager Licensing After you install Site Recovery Manager, it remains in evaluation mode until you install a Site Recovery Manager license key. After the evaluation license expires, existing protection groups remain protected and you can recover them, but you cannot create new protection groups or add virtual machines to an existing protection group until you obtain and assign a valid Site Recovery Manager license key.
Chapter 2 Site Recovery Manager System Requirements You can combine the features of Site Recovery Manager with other components of vCloud Suite to leverage the full capabilities of the software-defined data center. For more information, see vCloud Suite Architecture Overview and Use Cases. Not all features and capabilities of vSphere are available in all editions. For a comparison of feature sets in each edition, see http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/.
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Creating the Site Recovery Manager Database 3 The Site Recovery Manager Server requires its own database, which it uses to store data such as recovery plans and inventory information. Site Recovery Manager provides an embedded vPostgreSQL database that you can use with minimal configuration. You can select the option to use the embedded database when you install Site Recovery Manager.
Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration n Create an ODBC System DSN for Site Recovery Manager on page 20 You must provide Site Recovery Manager with a system database source name (DSN) for a 64-bit open database connectivity (ODBC) connector. The ODBC connector allows Site Recovery Manager to connect to the Site Recovery Manager database.
Chapter 3 Creating the Site Recovery Manager Database Requirements for Using Oracle Server with Site Recovery Manager When you create an Oracle Server database, you must configure it correctly to support Site Recovery Manager. You create and configure an Oracle Server database for Site Recovery Manager by using the tools that Oracle Server provides. This information provides the general steps that you must perform to configure an Oracle Server database for Site Recovery Manager.
Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration 6 (Optional) Restore the database from the backup that you created in Step 4 by using the pg_restore command. pg_restore -Fc --host 127.0.0.1 --port port_number --username=db_username --dbname=srm_db srm_backup_name 7 Start the Site Recovery Manager service. Create an ODBC System DSN for Site Recovery Manager You must provide Site Recovery Manager with a system database source name (DSN) for a 64-bit open database connectivity (ODBC) connector.
Chapter 3 Creating the Site Recovery Manager Database 4 (Optional) Create an SQL Server data source for the database. a b Provide the details for the data source. Option Action Name Enter a name for this data source, for example SRM. Description Enter a description of the data source, for example SRM. Server Select the running database instance to which to connect or enter the address of the database server.
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Site Recovery Manager Authentication 4 The Platform Services Controller handles the authentication between Site Recovery Manager and vCenter Server at the vCenter Single Sign-On level. All communications between Site Recovery Manager and vCenter Server instances take place over transport layer security (TLS) connections. Previous versions of Site Recovery Manager supported both secure sockets layer (SSL) and TLS connections.
Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration Site Recovery Manager SSL/TLS Server Endpoint Certificates Site Recovery Manager requires an SSL/TLS certificate for use as the endpoint certificate for all TLS connections established to Site Recovery Manager. The Site Recovery Manager server endpoint certificate is separate and distinct from the certificate that is generated during the creation and registration of a Site Recovery Manager solution user.
Creating SSL/TLS Server Endpoint Certificates for Site Recovery Manager 5 The Site Recovery Manager server endpoint certificate establishes the identity of Site Recovery Manager Server to clients. The endpoint certificate secures the communication between the client and Site Recovery Manager Server. During installation of Site Recovery Manager, there is an option for Site Recovery Manager to generate an SSL/TLS certificate to use as the Site Recovery Manager endpoint certificate.
Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration n n The certificate must include an extendedKeyUsage or enhancedKeyUsage attribute, the value of which is serverAuth. n Unlike in 5.x releases, there is no requirement for the certificate to also be a client certificate. The clientAuth value is not required. n The Subject Name must not be empty and must contain fewer than 4096 characters.
Installing Site Recovery Manager 6 You must install a Site Recovery Manager Server instance at the protected site and also at the recovery site. Site Recovery Manager requires a vCenter Server instance of the appropriate version at each site before you install Site Recovery Manager Server. The Site Recovery Manager installer must be able to connect to this vCenter Server instance during installation.
Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration 8 Unregister an Incompatible Version of vSphere Replication on page 41 Site Recovery Manager requires the corresponding version of vSphere Replication. The Site Recovery Manager installer verifies the version of vSphere Replication and stops if it detects an incompatible version. Site Recovery Manager and vCenter Server Deployment Models You can install Site Recovery Manager in any of the deployment models that vCenter Server supports.
Chapter 6 Installing Site Recovery Manager After you have installed Site Recovery Manager, if vCenter Server migrates to a different Platform Services Controller or if the address of the Platform Services Controller changes, you can reconfigure Site Recovery Manager with the new Platform Services Controller address. For example, you can change from an embedded Platform Services Controller to an external Platform Services Controller.
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Chapter 6 Installing Site Recovery Manager n The way in which you deploy Platform Services Controller, vCenter Server, and vCenter Single Sign-On on a site affects how you deploy Site Recovery Manager. For information about how the vCenter Server deployment model affects Site Recovery Manager, see “Site Recovery Manager and vCenter Server Deployment Models,” on page 28. n Obtain the address of the Platform Services Controller instance for both sites.
Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration n If you use custom certificates, obtain an appropriate certificate file. See “Requirements When Using Custom SSL/TLS Certificates with Site Recovery Manager,” on page 25. n Download the Site Recovery Manager installation file to a folder on the machine on which to install Site Recovery Manager. n Verify that no reboot is pending on the Windows machine on which to install Site Recovery Manager Server.
Chapter 6 Installing Site Recovery Manager 4 Enter information about the Platform Services Controller at the site where you are installing Site Recovery Manager and click Next. Option Description Address The host name or IP address of the Platform Services Controller for the vCenter Server with which to register Site Recovery Manager. Enter the host name in lowercase letters.
Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration 8 Option Description Local Host Name or IP address of the local host. The Site Recovery Manager installer obtains this value. Only change it if it is incorrect. For example, the local host might have more than one network interface and the one that the Site Recovery Manager installer detects is not the interface you want to use.
Chapter 6 Installing Site Recovery Manager 10 11 Select whether to use the embedded database or a custom database, and click Next. Option Description Use the embedded database server Site Recovery Manager provides a built-in vPostgres database that you can use with minimal configuration. Use a custom database server Select an existing 64-bit DSN from the drop-down menu.
Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration 12 Select the user account under which to run the Site Recovery Manager Server service and click Next. n Select Use Local System Account to run the Site Recovery Manager Server service under the Local System account. n Enter the username and password of an existing LDAP user account to run the Site Recovery Manager Server service under a different user account.
Chapter 6 Installing Site Recovery Manager Establish a Client Connection to the Remote Site Recovery Manager Server Instance After you connect the Site Recovery Manager Server instances, you must establish a connection from the Site Recovery Manager interface in the vSphere Web Client to the remote Site Recovery Manager Server.
Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration Site Recovery Manager Server Does Not Start Site Recovery Manager depends on other services. If one of those services is not running, the Site Recovery Manager Server does not start. Problem After you install, repair, or modify Site Recovery Manager by running the Site Recovery Manager installer, or after you reboot the Site Recovery Manager Server, the Site Recovery Manager Server does not start, or else starts and then stops.
Chapter 6 Installing Site Recovery Manager 6 n Verify that the Site Recovery Manager database permits sufficient connections. If the Site Recovery Manager logs contain the message GetConnection: Still waiting for available connections, increase the maximum number of database connections. Consult with your database administrator before changing these settings. n Check that the user account for the Site Recovery Manager service is correct.
Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration Solution If you cannot upgrade vSphere Replication to the correct version, unregister vSphere Replication from vCenter Server. For information about how to unregister vSphere Replication from vCenter Server, see Uninstall vSphere Replication and Unregister vSphere Replication from vCenter Server if the Appliance Was Deleted in vSphere Replication Administration. 42 VMware, Inc.
Modifying and Uninstalling Site Recovery Manager 7 You can modify an existing Site Recovery Manager installation to reflect changes in your infrastructure. To uninstall Site Recovery Manager cleanly, you must follow the correct procedure. n Modify a Site Recovery Manager Server Installation on page 44 To change some of the information that you supplied when you installed Site Recovery Manager Server, you can run the Site Recovery Manager installer in modify mode.
Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration Modify a Site Recovery Manager Server Installation To change some of the information that you supplied when you installed Site Recovery Manager Server, you can run the Site Recovery Manager installer in modify mode. Installing Site Recovery Manager Server binds the installation to a number of values that you supply, including the vCenter Server instance to extend, the Site Recovery Manager database type, DSN and credentials, the certificate, and so on.
Chapter 7 Modifying and Uninstalling Site Recovery Manager Option Description Username Modify the vCenter Single Sign-On user name, if it has changed since the initial installation. Password Enter the vCenter Single Sign-On password. 7 If prompted, verify the Platform Services Controller certificate and click Accept to accept it. 8 Verify the vCenter Server instance that Site Recovery Manager extends, and click Next.
Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration 12 13 Option Description Database Password The password for the specified user ID. Modify this value if the password for the database user account has changed after you installed Site Recovery Manager Server. You must enter this value in all cases. Database Port This only appears if you use the embedded database. You cannot change this value. Connection Count Modify the initial connection pool size.
Chapter 7 Modifying and Uninstalling Site Recovery Manager 2 Right-click a site and select Reconfigure Pairing. You can initiate the reconfiguration from either site, even if you only changed the installation on one of the sites. 3 Enter the address of the Platform Services Controller on the remote site and click Next. 4 Select the vCenter Server instance with which Site Recovery Manager is registered on the remote site, provide the vCenter Single Sign-On username and password, and click Finish.
Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration 5 Select Site Recovery > Sites, select a site, click Manage, and remove all inventory mappings. a Click each of the Network Mappings, Folder Mappings, Resource Mappings, and Storage Policy Mappings tabs. b In each tab, right-click a mapping, and select Remove Mapping Type Mapping 6 For both sites, click Placeholder Datastores, right-click the placeholder datastore, and select Remove Placeholder Datastore.
Chapter 7 Modifying and Uninstalling Site Recovery Manager Procedure 1 Log in to the Site Recovery Manager Server host. 2 Open Programs and Features from the Windows Control Panel. 3 Select the entry for VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager and click Change. 4 Click Next. 5 Select Repair and click Next. 6 Click Install to repair the installation. The installer makes any necessary repairs and restarts Site Recovery Manager Server.
Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration 4 In the Protection Groups > Objects tab, highlight all protection groups, right-click and select Delete Protection Group. You cannot delete a protection group that is included in a recovery plan. You cannot delete array-based or vSphere Replication protection groups that contain virtual machines on which protection is still configured. 5 Select Site Recovery > Sites, select a site, click Manage, and remove all inventory mappings.
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Upgrading Site Recovery Manager 8 You can upgrade existing Site Recovery Manager installations. The Site Recovery Manager upgrade process preserves existing information about Site Recovery Manager configurations. Because of update release schedules, upgrading to certain Site Recovery Manager 6.1.x update releases is not supported for all 6.0.x releases.
Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration n Custom alarms and alarm actions n Test plan histories n Security certificates n Mass IP customization files (CSVs) IMPORTANT During an upgrade, Site Recovery Manager does not retain any advanced settings that you configured in the previous installation. This is by design.
Chapter 8 Upgrading Site Recovery Manager Types of Upgrade that Site Recovery Manager Supports Upgrading Site Recovery Manager requires that you upgrade vCenter Server. Site Recovery Manager supports different upgrade configurations. Table 8‑1. Types of vCenter Server and Site Recovery Manager Upgrades Upgrade Type Description Supported In-place upgrade of Site Recovery Manager The simplest upgrade path.
Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration Upgrade Site Recovery Manager You perform several tasks to upgrade Site Recovery Manager. Because of update release schedules, upgrading to certain Site Recovery Manager 6.1.x update releases is not supported for all 6.0.x releases. For information about supported upgrade paths, see Upgrade Path > VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager in the VMware Product Interoperability Matrixes at http://partnerweb.vmware.com/comp_guide2/sim/interop_matrix.
Chapter 8 Upgrading Site Recovery Manager Order of Upgrading vSphere and Site Recovery Manager Components You must upgrade certain components of your vSphere environment before you upgrade Site Recovery Manager. Upgrade the components on the protected site before you upgrade the components on the recovery site. Upgrading the protected site first allows you to perform a disaster recovery on the recovery site if you encounter problems during the upgrade that render the protected site unusable.
Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration n Because of update release schedules, upgrading to certain Site Recovery Manager 6.1.x update releases is not supported for all 6.0.x releases. For information about supported upgrade paths, see Upgrade Path > VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager in the VMware Product Interoperability Matrixes at http://partnerweb.vmware.com/comp_guide2/sim/interop_matrix.php? before you upgrade. IMPORTANT Upgrading from Site Recovery Manager 5.
Chapter 8 Upgrading Site Recovery Manager n If you use custom certificates, obtain an appropriate certificate file. Custom certificates must use at least the SHA1, or preferably SHA256, thumbprint algorithm. This release of Site Recovery Manager does not support certificates that use the MD5 thumbprint algorithm. See “Requirements When Using Custom SSL/TLS Certificates with Site Recovery Manager,” on page 25.
Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration If you are updating an existing Site Recovery Manager 6.1 release to an update release or a patch release, not all of the steps in the procedure apply. Prerequisites n You completed the tasks and obtained the information described in “Prerequisites and Best Practices for Site Recovery Manager Upgrade,” on page 57. n Log in to the Site Recovery Manager host machine to upgrade. Log in using an account with sufficient privileges.
Chapter 8 Upgrading Site Recovery Manager 7 Select a certificate type and click Next. Option Description Automatically generate certificate Use an automatically generated certificate: a Select Automatically generate certificate and click Next. b Enter text values for your organization and organization unit, typically your company name and the name of your group in the company. c Click Next. Load a certificate file Use a custom certificate: a Select Use a PKCS#12 certificate file and click Next.
Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration Upgrade Site Recovery Manager Server with Migration You can upgrade Site Recovery Manager and migrate Site Recovery Manager Server to a different host than the previous Site Recovery Manager Server installation.
Chapter 8 Upgrading Site Recovery Manager 4 Choose where to install Site Recovery Manager Server, and click Next. n Keep the default destination folder. n Click Change to change the destination folder, and select a target volume. The default installation folder for Site Recovery Manager is C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager. If you use a different folder, the pathname cannot be longer than 120 characters including the end slash, and cannot include non-ASCII characters.
Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration 9 Option Description Local Host Name or IP address of the local host. The Site Recovery Manager installer obtains this value. Only change it if it is incorrect. For example, the local host might have more than one network interface and the one that the Site Recovery Manager installer detects is not the interface you want to use.
Chapter 8 Upgrading Site Recovery Manager 11 12 13 Select a certificate type and click Next. Option Description Automatically generate certificate Use an automatically generated certificate: a Select Automatically generate certificate and click Next. b Enter text values for your organization and organization unit, typically your company name and the name of your group in the company. c Click Next.
Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration n When you have upgraded both sites, perform the post-upgrade tasks in “Configure and Verify the Upgraded Site Recovery Manager Installation,” on page 66. Configure and Verify the Upgraded Site Recovery Manager Installation You must configure the upgraded components to establish a working Site Recovery Manager installation.
Chapter 8 Upgrading Site Recovery Manager 5 Select Site Recovery > Protection Groups and Site Recovery > Recovery Plans and verify that your protection groups and recovery plans from the previous version are present. 6 In Site Recovery > Recovery Plans, run a test on each of your recovery plans. Revert to a Previous Release of Site Recovery Manager To revert to a previous release of Site Recovery Manager, you must uninstall Site Recovery Manager from the protected and recovery sites.
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Installing Site Recovery Manager to Use with a Shared Recovery Site 9 With Site Recovery Manager, you can connect multiple protected sites to a single recovery site. The virtual machines on the protected sites all recover to the same recovery site. This configuration is known as a shared recovery site, a many-to-one, fan-in, or an N:1 configuration.
Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration Example: Using Site Recovery Manager with Multiple Protected Sites and a Shared Recovery Site An organization has two field offices and a head office. Each of the field offices is a protected site. The head office acts as the recovery site for both of the field offices. Each field office has a Site Recovery Manager Server instance and a vCenter Server instance.
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Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration Shared Recovery Sites and vCenter Server Deployment Models You can use Site Recovery Manager in a shared recovery site configuration in any of the deployment models that vCenter Server supports. For information about how the vCenter Server deployment model affects Site Recovery Manager, see “Site Recovery Manager and vCenter Server Deployment Models,” on page 28.
Chapter 9 Installing Site Recovery Manager to Use with a Shared Recovery Site Figure 9-3 shows one possible shared protected site configuration. In this example, two Site Recovery Manager Server instances share a vCenter Server instance on each of two shared protected sites. The vCenter Server instances on both of the shared protected sites share a single Platform Services Controller.
Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration n Each Site Recovery Manager Server instance on the protected site and on the shared recovery site requires its own database. n A single shared recovery site can support a maximum of ten protected sites. You can run concurrent recoveries from multiple sites. See http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2119336 for the number of concurrent recoveries that you can run with array-based replication and with vSphere Replication.
Chapter 9 Installing Site Recovery Manager to Use with a Shared Recovery Site What to do next If you still experience timeouts after increasing the RemoteManager timeout value, experiment with progressively longer timeout settings. Do not increase the timeout period excessively.
Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration Install Site Recovery Manager In a Shared Recovery Site Configuration To install Site Recovery Manager in a shared recovery site configuration, you deploy Site Recovery Manager Server on one or more protected sites, and deploy a corresponding number of Site Recovery Manager Server instances on the shared recovery site. You can only pair protected and recovery sites that have the same Site Recovery Manager extension ID.
Chapter 9 Installing Site Recovery Manager to Use with a Shared Recovery Site Prerequisites n To use Site Recovery Manager with vSphere Replication, deploy the appropriate version of vSphere Replication on both of the protected and recovery sites before you install Site Recovery Manager Server. The Site Recovery Manager installer verifies the version of vSphere Replication during installation and stops if it detects an incompatible version.
Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration 3 At the SRM Plug-in ID page, select Custom SRM Plug-in Identifier, provide information to identify this custom Site Recovery Manager extension, and click Next. Option Description SRM ID Enter a unique identifier for this pair of Site Recovery Manager Server instances. The Site Recovery Manager ID can be a string of up to 29 ASCII characters from the set of ASCII upper- lower-case characters, digits, the underscore, the period, and the hyphen.
Chapter 9 Installing Site Recovery Manager to Use with a Shared Recovery Site 3 4 At the SRM Plug-in ID page, select Custom SRM Plug-in Identifier, provide information to identify this Site Recovery Manager extension as the partner of a Site Recovery Manager Server instance on a protected site, and click Next. Option Description SRM ID Enter the same Site Recovery Manager ID as you provided for the corresponding Site Recovery Manager Server instance on the protected site.
Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration 3 Enter the address of the Platform Services Controller for the Site Recovery Manager Server on the remote site, and click Next. The address that you provide for the Platform Services Controller must be an exact match of the of address that you provided when you installed Site Recovery Manager Server on the remote site.
Chapter 9 Installing Site Recovery Manager to Use with a Shared Recovery Site The shared recovery site is ready to receive replicated virtual machines that you recover from the protected sites by using array-based replication. Configure Placeholders and Mappings in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration When you configure placeholders and mappings in a shared recovery site configuration, the customers of the shared recovery site can share the resources on the recovery site.
Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration 3 (Optional) If you use vSphere Replication, select the appropriate target datastores for the replica virtual machines when you configure replication. Avoid using the same datastore as the target for vSphere Replication as you use as the placeholder datastore for Site Recovery Manager. Option Action Share customer resources Select a common target datastore on the shared recovery site.
Chapter 9 Installing Site Recovery Manager to Use with a Shared Recovery Site 7 (Optional) If you use vSphere Replication, upgrade the vSphere Replication appliance on the shared recovery site. 8 Upgrade the Site Recovery Manager Server instance on the shared recovery site that is paired with the first protected site that you upgraded.
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Index Numerics E 1:N configuration 73 embedded database back up 19 ODBC DSN 20 restore 19 A array-based replication 9 authentication and site pairing 23 solution user, certificate 23 SSL 23 TLS 23 B bidirectional protection 11 break pairing 47, 49 C certificate change type 44 signed by certificate authority 25 SRM requirements for 25 SSL/TLS 25 to update 44 certificates endpoint 25 SSL/TLS 25 client connection 39 connect to new remote site 47 D database backup requirements 67 change connection detai
Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration protected and recovery sites different configurations 11 heterogeneous 11 protected site host compatibility requirements 10 to designate 38 protection group, maximum number supported 15 R recovery, diagram 10 recovery site host compatibility requirements 10 to designate 38 remote site, change 47 S shared protected site, architecture 72 shared recovery site architecture 72 connect sites 79 install SRM Server on protected site 77 install SRM Server on re
