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Back to Basics – SRM – Part 7: Migration & Failover

27 January, 2015 6

In the previous part we created, configured and tested a recovery plan. In this part we will perform a planned migration and a disaster recovery from the Protected Site to the Recovery Site to simulate a disaster recovery scenario. But first, let’s define both scenarios once again. What is a planned migration? “Planned migration enables you to migrate the workloads from the protected site to the recovery site with minimal risk of data loss. A […]

Back to Basics – SRM – Part 6: Recovery Plans

20 January, 2015 2

In the previous part we’ve created and configured protection groups in Site Recovery Manager. In this part of the SRM mini-series we will have a closer look at the recovery plans that can be configured through the vSphere Web Client in the Site Recovery Manager. Create Recovery Plans On the Protected Site, open the vSphere Web Client and log in with the administrator account. On the left pane, under Home, go to Site Recovery. Next, […]

Back to Basics – SRM – Part 4: Inventory Mappings

16 December, 2014 7

In the previous part, we had a look at the virtual machine replication options that are available in the vSphere Replication from the vSphere Web Client. This part of the SRM mini-series will go deeper on the inventory mappings that can be configured in SRM. So basically, 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 […]

Install or upgrade the vSphere Web Client

14 September, 2012 7

The vSphere Web Client lets you connect to a vCenter Server system to manage your vSphere infrastructure and ESXi hosts through a browser. The vSphere Web Client requires a connection to the vCenter Single Sign On server so make sure you install it before installing vSphere Web Client. Also, make sure that the Inventory Services and the vCenter Server are upgraded to version 5.1. Currently the following web browsers are supported in version 5.1 of […]