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. Click Sites in the Navigator.
3. Click Pair site in the Objects tab.
4. Enter the Remote Virtual Center user name and password when prompted and click OK.
5. Click one of the sites and ensure that the local site and the paired site are connected. Confirm the connection by clicking the Summary tab.

   

6. Click the client window back button and then click Array Based Replication in the Navigator.
7. Click Add New Array Manager in the Objects tab to display the Add Array Manger window, open to the Options pane.

   

8. Select Add a pair of array managers and then click Next.
9. On the Location pane, specify a pair of sites for the two array managers and then click Next.
10. On the Select SRA type pane, select IBM Spectrum Virtualize Family Storage Replication Adapter and then click Next.

    

11. On the Configure array manager pane, enter the array manager information as detailed after the following figure and then click Next.

    

    CIM Address of Local SVC

    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 SVC

    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.

12. On the Configure paired array manager pane, enter the paired array manager information using the same guidelines provided above and then click Next.

    

13. On the Enable array pairs pane, enable the array pairs and then click Next.
14. On the Ready to complete pane, click Finish.

    The discovered device information can be viewed on the Array Pairs view on the Manage tab. After the pairing is successful, the Status column shows it as Enabled.

    If there are new replicated devices that need to be discovered, click Refresh.

    

    Attention: All Spectrum Virtualize 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.