Adding an Array Manager to the VMware Site Recovery Manager

To add an array manager to VMware Site Recovery Manager, complete the following steps.

1. In the VMware vSphere client, click Site Recovery on the Home page.
2. Enter the Remote Virtual Center user name and password, when prompted, and click OK.
3. Ensure that the local and remote sites are connected. Confirm the connection by clicking the Summary tab in the inventory pane.
4. Click the Array Managers option on the inventory pane and select Summary.

   

5. Select the local site on the inventory pane and click Add Array Manager.

   

6. Enter the display name for the protected (primary) Storwize® Family and click Next.

   

7. Enter the array manager information in the Add Array Manager pane.

   

   CIM Address of Primary SAN Volume Controller

   Enter the CIMOM address and CIM port of the local SAN Volume Controller cluster.

   Note: SAN Volume Controller SRA supports only port 5989 to connect to CIMOM through https.

   CIM Address of Remote SAN Volume Controller

   Enter the CIMOM address and CIM port of the remote SAN Volume Controller cluster. The addresses can either be IP addresses or fully qualified domain names.

   Note: Enter the same CIMOM address and CIM port as the primary SVC, if you are using IBM SVC Stretched Cluster or IBM HyperSwap. If M:N topology is being used, enter any one of the SVCs (N) on the remote site for the CIM Address of the remote SVC. The term M:N refers to the number of SVCs on the local site (M) and remote site (N). No calculations are derived from this term. M:N is only used to denote the replication process.

   Name Filter

   This field is optional. To run a full discovery, keep this field empty. To filter volume names or consistency groups, enter the volume name/prefix or consistency group name/prefix to run the filter operation.

   Note: For more information, see Filtering volumes and consistency groups by name.

   Test Mdisk Group ID

   Input an Mdisk group ID for the local SVC, which will be used to create flash copies in when running the test operation.

   Note: If an Mdisk group ID is set here, SRA will ignore the value of Test Mdisk Group ID set in the SRA Utility.

   User name

   Enter the user name that is configured on the CIMOM.

   Password

   Enter the password that is configured on the CIMOM.

   Important: The user name and password for local and remote SAN Volume Controller CIMOMs must be the same.

8. Enter the connection information for the array.
9. Click Next. SRM discovers the Storwize Family device at the specified IP address.
10. Click Finish.
11. Select the remote site on the inventory pane and click Add Array Manager.
12. Enter the Display Name for the remote Storwize Family and click Next.

    

13. Enter the Array Manager information for the remote Storwize Family cluster on the Add Array Manager pane.

    

14. Click Next to confirm the successful addition of the Array Manager.
15. Click Finish.
16. Select the local array on the inventory screen and select the Array Pairs tab.

    

17. Click Enable in the Actions column to pair the local and remote sites together. The device discovery and data store computation process is initiated. If the pairing is successful, the Status column shows Enabled. The discovered device information is available under the Devices tab. If new replicated devices must be discovered, click Refresh.

    Attention: All Storwize Family-replicated VDisks that participate in SRM and belong to the same remote copy consistency group are shown under a single local consistency group. To avoid data inconsistencies, when adding replicated VDisks to the same VM or datastore, all VDisks used by a single VM or application must be added to the same consistency group.