Configuration

The Storwize® Family SRA installation creates a shortcut named IBM Storwize Family SRA Configuration Utility.exe on the desktop.

Important: The configuration utility must be run on both the protected (primary) site and the recovery (secondary) site SRM host. The Pre-Configured Env. setting must be consistent for both sites.

Double-click the IBM Storwize Family SRA Configuration Utility.exe shortcut to open the configuration utility.

The IBM Storwize Family SRA utility window has several options for you to select if you have the Non-preconfigured environment configuration. A check box is available if you are using a pre-configured environment. The Volume Type section has three options; Standard, Thin Provisioned/Space Efficient, and Compressed Volume. Other options are Test MDisk Group ID, Protect Source Vols, Src. MDisk Group ID, Protect Target Vols, and Tgt. MDisk Group ID. — Figure 1. Configuration utility

VMware SRM version 5.0 and later provides two kinds of recoveries:

Planned failover
Disaster recovery

In both recovery scenarios, back up the source and target volumes. Instruct the Storwize Family SRA to create FlashCopy® backups of the remote copy source and target volumes by checking Protect Source Vols and Protect Target Vols.

Note: For IBM SVC Stretched Cluster and IBM HyperSwap, a stretched volume or a hyperswap volume does not have source or target, so SRA will not create FlashCopy backups even by checking Protect Source Vols or Protect Target Vols.

Add the appropriate MDisk group IDs in the boxes before you promote target volumes to the VMware ESX server and recover VMs on them.

Note: If the Storwize Family SRA fails to back up the source or target volumes, no warning message is displayed. Check the backups on the storage system or check the messages in the SRM log files.