SRM User Guide: Configuring Site Recovery Manager vVol-Based Storage Policy Discovery

User Guides for VMware Solutions
Audience
Public
Content Type
User Guides
Source Type
Documentation

Prior to using SRM to protect virtual machines with vVol based replication, the underlying vVol storage environment must be configured.

Ensure pre-requisites are followed here: SRM User Guide: FlashArray vVols Array Based Replication and SRM - Requirements and Limitations

Once the pre-requisites are complete, verify the configuration of both vCenters. Each vCenter should have two VASA providers configured from each local FlashArray and a respective vVol datastore for that FlashArray mounted and online. The vVol datastore should be mounted to any cluster that is intended for vVol-based VM placement.

The VASA providers can be registered and the vVol datastore can be mounted in a variety of ways, but the most common options are:

  1. The FlashArray Plugin for the vSphere Client
  2. Native vSphere Client workflows
  3. PowerCLI/PowerShell
  4. FlashArray Plugin for vRealize Orchestrator

    For details on all of these methods, refer to the the Registering the VASA Provider.

    For the purposes of this article, the FlashArray Plugin for the vSphere Client will be used.

    In this environment, there are two vCenters, vCenter-01 and vCenter-02. A FlashArray called flasharray-m50-1 is local to vCenter-01 and a FlashArray called flasharray-m50-2 is local to vCenter-02.