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ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10

Configure SRA to protect datastores

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ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere provides the option to enable the SRA capability to configure disaster recovery.

Before you begin

  • You should have set up your vCenter Server instance and configured ESXi host.

  • You should have deployed ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere.

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

  • You should have the same custom SnapMirror schedules on both source and destination ONTAP clusters before you run the SRA workflows.

  • Enable ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere services to enable the SRA capability.

Steps

  1. Log in to the VMware Live Site Recovery appliance management interface using the URL: https://:<srm_ip>:5480, and then go to Storage Replication Adapters in VMware VMware Live Site Recovery appliance management interface.

  2. Select New Adapter.

  3. Upload the .tar.gz installer for the SRA plug-in to VMware Live Site Recovery.

  4. Rescan the adapters to verify that the details are updated on the VMware Live Site Recovery Storage Replication Adapters page.

Note After a failover, actions such as expand, mount, and delete might not be available for datastores. Perform datastore discovery to refresh and display the appropriate context menu actions.
Note After each reprotect operation, you must perform storage discovery on both sites.

In a new setup with SRA protection, always run a test failover. Skipping the test failover might cause the reprotect operation to fail.

In a fan-out configuration, after a SnapMirror Active Sync failover where the SnapMirror source changes to site B for Automated Failover Duplex and Asynchronous SnapMirror, run a test failover between sites B and C. Skipping this step may result in a failed reprotect operation.

Related information

Configure disaster recovery for NFS datastores using VMware Site Recovery Manager