Mastering PowerCLI

Managing vCenter Site Recovery Manager

Here, we will discuss how we can use PowerCLI cmdlets to manage Site Recovery Manager. To manage SRM, we can use two cmdlets: Connect-SrmServer and Disconnect-SrmServer.

To connect to an SRM server, we first need to connect to a vCenter server where SRM is already configured and attached to the vCenter server. Once we connect to the vCenter server using the Connect-VIServer cmdlet, we can connect to the SRM server using the Connect-SrmServer cmdlet:

PS C:\> $srmServer = Connect-SrmServer
PS C:\> $srmServer

Name                           Port  User                 
----                           ----  ----                 
192.168.12.20                  9007  lab.com\Administrator

To disconnect from an SRM server, we can use the Disconnect-SrmServer cmdlet. To get more information from the SRM server and to manage ...