Now that the VR infrastructure is up and running we can start to configure the inventory mappings. The Inventory Mappings provide a convenient way to specify how the resources at the Protected Site are mapped to the resources at the Recovery Site. You can create a mapping of the following objects in the vCenter Server: [...]
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How To: VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 – Part 6: Inventory mappings
Posted in Site Recovery Manager, SRM 5, vCenter, VMware, vSphere 5, tagged configuration, Inventory mappings, Site Recovery Manager, SRM 5, VMware on 23 May 2012 | Leave a Comment »
How to: VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 – Part 5: VRM Pairing and VR Deployment
Posted in Site Recovery Manager, SRM 5, vCenter, VMware, vSphere 5, tagged configuration, Site Recovery Manager, SRM 5, VMware, VRM Server, vSphere Replication on 16 May 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Now that the VRM Servers are deployed at the Protected Site and the Recovery Site, it’s time to pair both servers. When the pairing is completed we will be able to deploy the VR Servers, one for each site. This will enable us to fail over from the Protected Site to the Recovery Site. In [...]
How to: VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 – Part 4: vSphere Replication
Posted in Site Recovery Manager, SRM 5, vCenter, VMware, vSphere 5, tagged configuration, installation, Site Recovery Manager, SRM 5, VMware, vSphere Replication on 10 May 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Now that the connection between the Protected and Recovery Site is established, we can start deploying the vSphere Replication (VR) but before that, the VR infrastructure must be configured and operational. The VR infrastructure consists of the following components: VRM Server: provides the management of the VR Servers across the ESXi hosts VR Server: replicates the [...]
How to: VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 – Part 3: Site Pairing
Posted in Site Recovery Manager, SRM 5, vCenter, VMware, vSphere 5, tagged Site Pairing, Site Recovery Manager, SRM 5, VMware on 8 May 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In the previous part we have installed the SRM 5 software and enabled the plug-in for SRM management. Next step in the SRM 5 deployment is site pairing which is basically connecting both SRM instances with each other. Keep in mind that only one Recovery Site can be connected to one Protected Site. Let’s see [...]
How To: VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 – Part 2: Installation
Posted in Site Recovery Manager, SRM 5, vCenter, VMware, vSphere 5, tagged installation, Site Recovery Manager, SRM5, VMware on 3 May 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In the previous part I created a database and an ODBC connection for the deployment of SRM 5. In this part we will focus on the installation process of SRM 5 which is quite straightforward if all of the prerequisites are met. After the installation we will have to download and enable the VMware vCenter [...]


