Adding an array pair to the VMware Site Recovery Manager

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

1. In the VMware vSphere Web Client, click Site Recovery > Open Site Recovery > NEW SITE PAIR.
2. Enter the Remote Virtual Center host name, user name, and password when prompted and click NEXT.
3. Click one of the sites you want to pair and click Next.
4. Confirm the connection by clicking CONNECT.
5. Review your selected settings and click FINISH.
6. Click VIEW DETAILS to verify the information on the Summary pane, as shown in Figure 1.

   

7. On the Site Pair tab, click Configure > Array Based Replication > Array Pairs to open the Array Pairs pane, as shown in Figure 2.

   

8. Click ADD to add an array manager.
9. On the Add Array Pair - Storage replication adapter pane, select IBM Spectrum Virtualize Family Storage Replication Adapter and click NEXT, as shown in Figure 3.

   

10. On the Local array manager pane, as shown in Figure 4, enter the array manager information as detailed after the figure and then click Next.

    

    CIM Address of Local Spectrum Virtualize Cluster

    Enter the CIMOM address and CIM port of the local Spectrum Virtualize Cluster.

    Note: Spectrum Virtualize SRA supports only port 5989 to connect to CIMOM through https.

    CIM Address of Remote Spectrum Virtualize Cluster

    Enter the CIMOM address and CIM port of the remote Spectrum Virtualize 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 Spectrum Virtualize Cluster, if you are using IBM Stretched Cluster or IBM HyperSwap.
    • If M:N topology is being used, enter any one of the Spectrum Virtualize Clusters (N) on the remote site for the CIM Address of the remote Spectrum Virtualize Cluster. The term M:N refers to the number of Spectrum Virtualize Clusters 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.
    • Spectrum Virtualize multiple port configuration is supported with SRA when 1:1 Spectrum Virtualize topology is used. With Spectrum Virtualize M:N topology and multiple port configuration, replication may not work as SRA communicates with Spectrum Virtualize PORT 1.

    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 Spectrum Virtualize Cluster, 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 Spectrum Virtualize CIMOMs must be the same.

11. On the Remote array manager pane, as shown in Figure 5, enter the remote array manager information as detailed above and then click Next.

    

12. On the Array pairs pane, enable the array pairs and then click Next.
13. On the Ready to complete pane, click Finish.
    The Array Pairs pane is displayed, as shown in Figure 6. 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.