vCenter SRM Installation and Configuration

[unicorptechnolo]

Hello,

We have installed and configured SRM 5.5.1 in Main site and DR site. In DR site we have two hosts and no shared storage.

Each have one vsphere replication appliance deployed and both the sites connected and we have also replicated two virtual machines successfully.
Next step we have configured protection group and recovery plan as well.

But when we test a recovery plan it gives a error "unable to access virtual machine configuration file"

Is it necessary we must have a shared storage? Can't we use local datastore on each host to power on the machines.

Regards

Karthik

[mal_michael]

Hi,

No, shared storage is not required:

Array/ vendor types

Requires same storage replication solution at both sites (eg. EMC RecoverPoint, NetApp vFiler, IBM SVC, etc)

Can support any storage solution at either end including local storage as long as it is covered by the vSphere HCL

SRM - Array Based Replication vs. vSphere Replication | VMware vSphere Blog - VMware Blogs

Michael.