VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) automates the transfer of virtual machines between a primary and recovery site. This document provides a tutorial on using SRM along with HP Virtual Storage Array to implement a disaster recovery and business continuity plan. It covers SRM installation, site pairing, storage replication adapter installation, array manager configuration, resource mapping, folder mapping, network mapping, placeholder datastore configuration, protection group creation, recovery plan creation, and testing disaster recovery plans without impacting production workloads. The tutorial also details deploying and configuring the HP StoreVirtual VSA appliance and centralized management console to enable storage replication between sites.

1. Disasterrecoveryand business continuity plan using VMware Site Recovery
Manager(SRM)
Over the last ten years, virtualization has evolved to become an industry best practice to reduce costs,
improve availability, accelerate time to value and simplify management. People strive to find the
perfect disaster recovery plan for it department. Below list of articles for disaster recovery plan
and business continuity plan help you to understand detailed step by step procedure to install and
configure VMware SRM. VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is a disaster recovery and
business continuity solution from the VMware, which automates the transfer of virtual machines to
a local or remote recovery site.
VMware SRM works perfectly with the existing vSphere software and it operates as an extension of
vCenter server. SRM automates the recovery or migration of virtual machines between protected site
and a recovery site. This list of tutorials will help you to understand step by step procedure to
implement your disaster recovery plan and business continuity plan using VMware Site Recovery
Manager.
Disaster recovery plan and business continuity plan Tutorial
This tutorial’s targeted audiences are system administrators, VMware administrators and storage
administrators, who want to implement disaster recovery plan for IT department using VMware Site
Recovery Manager along with HP Virtual Storage Array.
Disaster Recovery :
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 6.0) Part 1- Overviewand Architecture

2. This article will help you to understand the overview and Architecture of the VMware Site Recovery
Manager. It also provides high level recommendations to implement your Disaster Recovery plan for
your IT using SRM and SAN replication software.
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 6.0) Part 2 – VMware SRM 6.0 installation
This article will help you to understand various pre-requisites to install SRM and also detailed step
by step procedure to install your favorite disaster recovery and business continuity solution
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 6.0) Part 3 – Configuring SRM Site Pairing
This article will help you to understand the procedure to pair your primary protected site with your
disaster recovery site using Site Pairing option in VMware SRM.
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 6.0) Part 4 – Installing Storage Replication Adapters
(SRAs)
This article will help you to understand what is Site Replication Adapters (SRA) and how to install
SRA to work with VMware SRM. Storage Replication Adapters (SRA) is a program provided by a
storage array vendor that enables vCenter Site Recovery Manager to work with the vendor’s array.
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 6.0) Part 5 – Configuring SRM Array Manager
This article will help you to understand the procedure to configure SRM array manager. VMware
site recovery manager uses this information to discover the storage array available to SRM host and
the replicated LUNs for it.
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 6.0) Part 6 – Creating SRM Resource Mappings
This article will help you to understand the procedure to configure resource mappings between
your primary protected site and disaster recovery site. This step is required because we use 2
different vCenter servers installed that are not linked by common data source.
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 6.0) Part 7 – Configuring SRM Folder Mapping
This article will help you to understand the procedure to configure folder mappings between
your primary protected site and disaster recovery site. This step will help you for better management
and planning by organizing the Virtual machines into the mapped folder after the Disaster Recovery
plan is executed.

3. VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 6.0) Part 8 – Configuring SRM Network Mapping
This article will help you to understand the procedure to configure Network mappings between
your primary protected site and disaster recovery site. This is very important step to configure the
proper network mapping between your protected site and Disaster recovery site. This ensures that
VMs that are powered on at the Recovery Site will be accessible across the network. Network
mappings can only be related to Virtual machine port groups
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 6.0) Part 9 – Configuring SRM Placeholder Datastores
This article will help you to understand the procedure to configure Placeholder datastore for
your primary protected site and disaster recovery site. A placeholder datastore is used to store the
placeholder virtual machines at the recovery site. A placeholder datastore reserves a place for
protected virtual machines in the recovery site’s inventory.
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 6.0) Part 10 – Creating SRM Protection Group
This article will help you to understand the procedure to create SRM Protection group. Site Recovery
Manager Protection groups can be created to group virtual machines for protection. SRM protection
groups will be different for array-based replicated virtual machines and vSphere replication
replicated virtual machines
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 6.0) Part 11 – Creating SRM Recovery Plans
This article will help you to understand the procedure to create your Disaster Recovery Plan using
VMware SRM. vCenter Site recovery manager recovery plan is an automated plan for recovering
protected virtual machines to the recovery site. SRM recovery plan includes one or more protection
groups. This is also called as disaster recovery plan and business continuity plan
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 6.0) Part 12 – Running SRM Test Recovery
This article will help you to understand how to test your disaster recovery plan and business
continuity plan without disturbing the actual production workloads using the SRM test recovery
option.
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 6.0) Part 13 – Cleaning up Test Recovery
This article will help you to understand the procedure to clean up your test recovery after executing
your disaster recovery plan and business continuity plan.

4. SAN Replication using HP Store Virtual VSA:
HP StoreVirtual VSA transforms your server’s internal or direct-attached storage into a fully-
featured shared storage array without the cost and complexity associated with dedicated storage.
StoreVirtual VSA is a virtual storage appliance optimized for VMware vSphere and Microsoft
Hyper-V environments. It creates a virtual array within your application server and scales as storage
needs evolve. The ability to use internal storage within your environment greatly increases storage
utilization, and eliminates the costs and complexity associated with dedicated external storage. Its
built-in high availability and disaster recovery features ensure business continuity for the entire
virtual environment. It is free replication software from HP.
VMware SRM 6.0 Array Based Replication Part 1 – Deploying HP Store Virtual VSA
This article will help you to understand the procedure to deploy the HP store Virtual appliance in top
of hypervisor. This article also talks about 2 different replication options available to use with
VMware SRM. First one is storage array replication and second one is free replication software
“vSphere replication” from VMware to leverage the virtual machine replication.
VMware SRM 6.0 Array Based Replication Part 2 – Installing HP Store Virtual VSA
Centralized Management Console (CMC)
This article will help you to understand the procedure to install HP Store Virtual VSA Centralized
Management Console (CMC) in windows server. The HP VSA centralized management console
allows us to centrally manage VSA appliances and other tasks like adding hosts, presenting storage
to host, configuring replication between VSA appliance, etc.
VMware SRM 6.0 Array Based Replication Part 3 – Configuring HP StoreVirtual VSA
Management Group
This article will help you to understand the procedure to Configure Virtual Storage Array appliance
and create VSA management group using HP VSA Centralized Management Console (CMC)
VMware SRM 6.0 Array Based Replication Part 4 – Adding ESXi host to HP VSA
Management Group and Presenting Storage to ESXi
This article will help you to understand the procedure to add ESXi host to VSA management group
and Preset Storage to the ESXi host and add them as a Datastore to store Virtual machine.

5. VMware SRM 6.0 Array Based Replication Part 5 – Configuring HP StoreVirtual VSA
Replication
This article will help you to understand the procedure to configure the Storage replication between
your Protected and Disaster recovery site using free software HP storeVirtual VSA.
I hope this tutorial will help you to understand and implement your disaster recovery plan and
business continuity plan using VMware’s disaster recovery and business continuity solution.
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