Installing SRM
SRM will be used to create recovery plans to migrate or failover virtual machines from protected sites to recovery sites. Because you want your virtual environment to run at the recovery site in the case your protected site is unavailable, both sites need a vCenter Server and an SRM server. The SRM application must be installed on a Windows Server computer. For supported Windows Server versions, you should check the VMware Compatibility Guide. You can find the VMware Compatibility Guide for SRM at http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=sra .
Virtual machines that you want to protect using SRM have to be replicated from the protected site to the recovery site. There are two ways to replicate the virtual machines:
- Array-based replication
- Host-based replication
For array-based replication, you have to configure the replication of virtual machines from the protected site to the recovery site on your storage array.
If you don't have an array...