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ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10.1

Configure SRA on the SRM appliance

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After you have deployed the SRM appliance, you should configure SRA on the SRM appliance. The successful configuration of SRA enables SRM Appliance to communicate with SRA for disaster recovery management. You should store ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere credentials (IP address) in the SRM appliance to enable communication between SRM Appliance and SRA.

What you will need

You should have downloaded the tar.gz file from NetApp Support Site.

About this task

The configuration of SRA on SRM Appliance stores the SRA credentials in the SRM appliance.

Steps

  1. On the SRM appliance screen, click Storage Replication Adapter > New Adapter.

  2. Upload the .tar.gz file to SRM.

  3. Log in using administrator account to the SRM appliance using putty.

  4. Switch to the root user using the command: su root

  5. Run command cd /var/log/vmware/srm to navigate to the log directory.

  6. At the log location enter the command to get the docker ID used by SRA: docker ps -l

  7. To log in to the container ID, enter command: docker exec -it -u srm <container id> sh

  8. Configure SRM with ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere IP address and password using the command: perl command.pl -I --otv-ip <OTV_IP>:8443 --otv-username <Application username> --otv-password <Application password> --vcenter-guid <VCENTER_GUID>'

    Note You need to provide the password value within single quotes to ensure that the Perl script does not read the special characters in the password as a delimiter of the input.

  9. Rescan the adapters to verify that the details are updated on the SRM Storage Replication Adapters page.

    A success message confirming that the storage credentials are stored is displayed. SRA can communicate with SRA server using the provided IP address, port and credentials.