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Managing disaster recovery setup by using Storage Replication Adapter

You can create and manage the disaster recovery setup in your vCenter Server by using Storage Replication Adapter (SRA).

It is best that you install the SRA plug-in and enabled the SRA capability using the VSC interface.

In Site Recovery Manager(SRM), you must pair the protected and recovery sites. After the site pairing has occurred, the next part of the SRM configuration involves setting up an array pair which enables SRM to use SRA to communicate with storage system to discover devices and device replication. Before you can configure the array pair, you must first create a site pair in SRM.

  • Pairing protected and recovery sites
    You must pair the protected and recovery sites created using your vSphere Client to enable Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) to discover the storage systems.
  • Configuring protected and recovery site resources
    You must configure your resource mappings like VM networks, ESXi hosts, and folders on both sites to enable the mapping of each resource from the protected site to the appropriate resource at the recovery site.
  • Verifying replicated storage systems
    You must verify that the protected site and recovery site are successfully paired after configuring Storage Replication Adapter (SRA). The replicated storage system must be discoverable by both the protected site and the recovery site.