Chapter 1. Installing and Configuring vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 6.1

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • What is Site Recovery Manager (SRM)?
  • Laying the groundwork for an SRM environment
  • Host presentation (Zoning) at the protected and recovery sites
  • Installing SRM on both the protected and recovery sites
  • Pairing SRM sites
  • Installing the Storage Replication Adapters
  • Adding array managers and enabling array pairs
  • Configuring placeholder datastores
  • Creating resource, folder, and network mappings
  • Virtual machine swap file location

Introduction

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