Welcome back to the new article on VMware SRM. This topic will cover how to Create Placeholder Datastore in VMware SRM. I am using VMware SRM 6.5.
For every virtual machine in a protection group, Site Recovery Manager creates a placeholder virtual machine at the recovery site. You must identify a datastore on the recovery site in which Site Recovery Manager can store the placeholder virtual machines.
After you select the datastore to contain the placeholder virtual machines, Site Recovery Manager reserves a place for protected virtual machines in the inventory on the recovery site. Site Recovery Manager creates a set of virtual machine files on the specified datastore at the recovery site and uses that subset to register the placeholder virtual machine with vCenter Server on the recovery site.
Step by Step: –
- To create Placeholder Datastore at both site, you need to login to VMware SRM console.
- Select Protected Site and go to Placeholder datastores tab.
- Click on Box icon under placeholder datastores tab.
- Go to Sites > Manage and Click on Placeholder Datastore. Click on OK. Make sure that you have already created this datastore in Protected Site’s Virtual Center.
- Perform the same step for Recovery Site. Select Recovery Site under Sites.
- Go to Placeholder datastores. Click on Box icon.
- Select Placeholder datastore for Recovery Site. Make sure that you have already created this datastore in recovery Site’s Virtual Center.
Placeholder datastores have been created in both site.
That’s all from this article. We are moving to next article which is to Configure Protected Group in VMware SRM. Stay Connected.
Take a look in below topics, explore and learn Site Recovery Manager: –
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Learn SRM – Part 1 – Introduction of VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.1
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Learn SRM – Part 2 – Understand VMware Site Recovery Manager Licensing
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Learn SRM – Part 3 – Understand Minimum Requirement for SRM in your Home Lab
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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)
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Learn SRM – Part 4.1 – Deploy HP VSA in Both Site
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Learn SRM – Part 4.2 -Configure HP VSA Appliance Networking in both Site
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Learn SRM – Part 4.3 -Install HP CMC Management Console
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Learn SRM – Part 4.4 -Add Appliance in HP CMC
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Learn SRM – Part 4.5 -Create Management Group in HP VSA
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Learn SRM – Part 4.6 -Create Cluster and Volumes in HP VSA
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Learn SRM – Part 4.7 -Find and Add ISCSI Initiator in ESXi Host
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Learn SRM – Part 4.8 -Assign Volume to ESXi Host
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Learn SRM – Part 4.9 -Scheduling Array Based Replication
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Learn SRM – Part 5 – Install VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.1 (SRM)
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Learn SRM – Part 6 – Install SRA (Storage Replication Adapter)
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Learn SRM – Part 7 – Configure Site Pairing for both Protected and Recovery Site
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Learn SRM – Part 8 – Configure SRM Array Manager Pairing
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Learn SRM – Part 9 – Configure Resource Mapping in VMware SRM
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Learn SRM – Part 10 – Create Placeholder Datastore in VMware SRM
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Learn SRM – Part 11 – Configure Protected Groups in VMware SRM
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Learn SRM – Part 12 – Configure Recovery Plans in VMware SRM
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Learn SRM – Part 13 – Perform Test Drill using VMware SRM
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Learn SRM – Part 14 – Perform Cleanup Activity in VMware SRM
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Learn SRM – Part 15 – Perform Cleanup Activity in VMware SRM
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