Hey Guys, we are in process of implementing Site Recovery Manager in our home lab. We need to ensure that we have replicated storage in place as we are going to use Array based Replication. HP StoreVirtual VSA is one of the solution which provides array based replication for your home lab setup.

Before installing SRM, we need to deploy HP VSA. Deploy the HP VSA on Protected and Recovery side using the below steps.

• Download HP StoreVirtual VSA OVF from HP website. Click here.
• Logged in to vCenter through the web client or access direct host using Web client. Here I am logged in directly to host.

• Click on “Create Register VM” to deploy OVF

• Select “Deploy a virtual machine from an OVF or OVA file” and click next

• Enter the Name of the VSA and click next:

• Select the Storage, where you want to deploy the VSA

• Click on license agreements as “I Agree”

• Select Disk Provisioning and Check-in Power on automatically

• You got configuration summery, now click on Finish

• Now HP-VSA has deployed

You need follow the above steps and deploy HP VSA in Recovery site as well.

Moving to next article which is to Configure HP VSA Networking.

Take a look in below topics, explore and learn Site Recovery Manager: –

• Learn SRM – Part 1 – Introduction of VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.1
  

• Learn SRM – Part 2 – Understand VMware Site Recovery Manager Licensing

• Learn SRM – Part 3 – Understand Minimum Requirement for SRM in your Home Lab

• Learn SRM – Part 4 – Prepare for Replicated Storage in you Home Lab (Ignore this step in Real Environment. You need to interact with Storage team for all these tasks in real environment)

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.1 – Deploy HP VSA in Both Site

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.2 -Configure HP VSA Appliance Networking in both Site

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.3 -Install HP CMC Management Console

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.4 -Add Appliance in HP CMC

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.5 -Create Management Group in HP VSA

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.6 -Create Cluster and Volumes in HP VSA

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.7 -Find and Add ISCSI Initiator in ESXi Host

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.8 -Assign Volume to ESXi Host

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.9 -Scheduling Array Based Replication

• Learn SRM – Part 5 – Install VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.1 (SRM)

• Learn SRM – Part 6 – Install SRA (Storage Replication Adapter)

• Learn SRM – Part 7 – Configure Site Pairing for both Protected and Recovery Site
  

• Learn SRM – Part 8 – Configure SRM Array Manager Pairing

• Learn SRM – Part 9 – Configure Resource Mapping in VMware SRM
  

• Learn SRM – Part 10 – Create Placeholder Datastore in VMware SRM
  

• Learn SRM – Part 11 – Configure Protected Groups in VMware SRM
  

• Learn SRM – Part 12 – Configure Recovery Plans in VMware SRM
  

• Learn SRM – Part 13 – Perform Test Drill using VMware SRM
  

• Learn SRM – Part 14 – Perform Cleanup Activity in VMware SRM
  

• Learn SRM – Part 15 – Perform Cleanup Activity in VMware SRM

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