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Dear All, In previous modules, we explored different topics of VMware and other products. In this module, we are going to learn VMware Site Recovery Manager(SRM) which is an essential component of disaster recovery of your Virtual Data Center. Every VMware admin who is looking for a DR solution, should explore SRM product.

• Site Recovery Manager provides automation of failover and disaster recovery testing in your Virtual Environment.
• It provides application availability and mobility across sites in private cloud environments with policy-based management, non- disruptive testing and automated orchestration.
• You can plan, test, and run the recovery of virtual machines between a protected vCenter Server site and a recovery vCenter Server site using VMware SRM.

VMware SRM helps you to achieve the followings: –

• Once Click Recovery during Disaster

• Delivers Fast and Reliable IT Disaster Recovery

• Uses simple Policy-Based Management

• Powers Disaster Recovery as-a-Service (DRaaS)

• Lowers Total Cost of ownership Up to 50%

I am not going much in depth in this article as I am going to share step by step about everything of SRM in next articles. I will try to write this complete module in such a way which can be easy to understand even for beginners.

Another most foremost thing which I would like to highlight here, that we are going to explore this complete module on recently launched VMware SRM version which 8.1.

There is quick steps to deploy VMware Site Recovery Manager which you need to understand in below points: –

I have explained each points(mentioned above in pictorial view) in different topics below and that’s too in step by step procedure so that it can helpful for you to get a better understanding.

Take a look in below topics, explore and learn Site Recovery Manager: –

• Learn SRM – Part 1 – Introduction of VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.1
  

• Learn SRM – Part 2 – Understand VMware Site Recovery Manager Licensing

• Learn SRM – Part 3 – Understand Minimum Requirement for SRM in your Home Lab

• Learn SRM – Part 4 – Prepare for Replicated Storage in you Home Lab (Ignore this step in Real Environment. You need to interact with Storage team for all these tasks in real environment)

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.1 – Deploy HP VSA in Both Site

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.2 -Configure HP VSA Appliance Networking in both Site

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.3 -Install HP CMC Management Console

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.4 -Add Appliance in HP CMC

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.5 -Create Management Group in HP VSA

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.6 -Create Cluster and Volumes in HP VSA

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.7 -Find and Add ISCSI Initiator in ESXi Host

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.8 -Assign Volume to ESXi Host

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.9 -Scheduling Array Based Replication

• Learn SRM – Part 5 – Install VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.1 (SRM)

• Learn SRM – Part 6 – Install SRA (Storage Replication Adapter)

• Learn SRM – Part 7 – Configure Site Pairing for both Protected and Recovery Site
  

• Learn SRM – Part 8 – Configure SRM Array Manager Pairing

• Learn SRM – Part 9 – Configure Resource Mapping in VMware SRM
  

• Learn SRM – Part 10 – Create Placeholder Datastore in VMware SRM
  

• Learn SRM – Part 11 – Configure Protected Groups in VMware SRM
  

• Learn SRM – Part 12 – Configure Recovery Plans in VMware SRM
  

• Learn SRM – Part 13 – Perform Test Drill using VMware SRM
  

• Learn SRM – Part 14 – Perform Cleanup Activity in VMware SRM
  

• Learn SRM – Part 15 – Perform Real Recovery during Disaster Scenario in VMware SRM

Stay tuned for next articles and modules. Please do share if you found this module useful.

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