Chapter 1. Introduction; Concept Diagram; Ibm Ds8000 Storage Replication Adapter And Vmware Srm Disaster Recovery - IBM DS8000 User Manual

Chapter 1. Introduction

The IBM DS8000 Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) is a software add-on that
integrates with the VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) solution to run
failovers together with IBM DS8000 storage systems.
The IBM DS8000 SRA extends SRM capabilities to employ DS8000 replication and
mirroring as part of the SRM comprehensive Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)
solution.
VMware administrators can automate the failover of a DS8000 system at the
protected (primary) SRM site to a DS8000 system at a recovery (secondary) SRM
site. Immediately upon failover, the VMware ESX/ESXi servers at the recovery
SRM site initiate the replicated datastores on the mirrored volumes of the recovery
DS8000 system.
When the protected site is back online, you can run failback from the recovery site
to the protected site by clicking Reprotect in the SRM.

Concept diagram

The IBM DS8000 storage system can use the IBM DS8000 SRA add-on that works
with each instance of VMware vCenter SRM (protected or recovery).
Figure 1 shows how the IBM DS8000 Storage Replication Adapter is integrated in a
typical VMware SRM disaster recovery solution.
Figure 1. IBM DS8000 Storage Replication Adapter and VMware SRM disaster recovery
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