Table Of Contents - Dell EMC ME4 Series User Manual

Storage replication adapter for vsphere

Owner's manual (153 pages)

Deployment manual (91 pages)

Owner's manual (95 pages)

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1 Installing and configuring the SRA..................................................................................................................4

About VMware Site Recovery Manager..........................................................................................................................4

Planned migration.........................................................................................................................................................4

Disaster recovery..........................................................................................................................................................4

Protected sites and recovery sites...................................................................................................................................5

SRM requirements............................................................................................................................................................. 5

Configuring the ME4 Series storage systems................................................................................................................ 5

Configure replication....................................................................................................................................................5

Install SRM software..........................................................................................................................................................6

Install the SRA software....................................................................................................................................................6

Configure SRM...................................................................................................................................................................6

2 Using SRM for disaster recovery................................................................................................................... 8

Volume discovery............................................................................................................................................................... 8

Create a recovery plan.......................................................................................................................................................8

Test a recovery plan...........................................................................................................................................................9

Failover and failback...........................................................................................................................................................9

Automatic failover.............................................................................................................................................................10

Reprotection......................................................................................................................................................................10

Automated failback...........................................................................................................................................................10

3 Troubleshooting............................................................................................................................................ 11

4 Best practices.............................................................................................................................................. 14

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