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1 VMware Site Recovery Manager overview
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Applicable Products
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Prerequisites
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RMSRA20 configurations
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Primary and secondary conceptual configurations for RMSRA20
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Coordination process of SRM and SRA 2.0
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Discovery of Arrays and Devices
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DiscoverArrays sequence
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Discovery Devices sequence
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Testing failover
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Failover
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reverseReplication command
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restoreReplication command
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syncOnce and querySyncstatus commands
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RMSRA20 local configuration
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RAID Manager local configuration using VCD
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RMSRA20 remote configuration using Telnet
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RAID Manager configuration on VM
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Required RAID Manager and Array Configurations
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Relationship between Failover action and configurations
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Example for local configuration
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Example for remote (Telnet) configuration
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Making standalone device/consistency groups
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2 Installation procedure
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Procedure for new introduction
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Setting the system environment variables
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Defining system variables using CUI
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Defining system variables using the GUI
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Updating the software version
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Version confirmation after installation
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Uninstallation procedure
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3 Configuring SRM and P9000 (XP) disk array
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Creating Pair-Volumes for data replication groups
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Configuring datastores
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Pairing SRM sites
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Configuring SRM (AM) to communicate with RMSRA20
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Adding Array Manager
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Verifying Array Manager on protection
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Enabling devices and verifying datastores
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Verifying the devices and replicated datastore on recovery
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Create protection groups
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Create recovery plans
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4 Executing failover and failback with SRM
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Failover
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Failback scenario with SRM
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Migration to site B, due to a disaster at site A
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Migration to site B, due to a planned or host down (ESX server) at site A
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5 Troubleshooting RMSRA20
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Known problems
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