Hi All,
I need some advice on my proposed approach for a new DR POD that we're standing up.
I currently have 2 sites Prod and DR that are using SRM 5.8.1 that was an upgraded and legacy environment..4-5.1-5.5-5.8. Satellite offices in the Prod VC fail into DR using Mirrorview.
I'm setting up a new DR POD (NW,SAN,Servers) to be shipped to a hosted DC and have created a new VMWare infrastructure to support it with replication based off recoverpoint
The approach I've outlined below is based off some notes mostly on the 6.x but I haven't seen any specific procedures documented for 5.8.1. Does this seem like a feasible approach? Any comments on what to be prepared for or lessons learned?
- Cold Snap all existing involved servers and DBs including existing VCenters
- Remove the existing Protection\Groups, gut the configuration to a setup default:
- Delete Recovery Plans
- Remove protection from VMs
- Delete Protection Groups
- Delete all inventory mappings
- Remove the placeholder datastores
- Remove the array managers
- Break the pairing
- Uninstall the SRAs at the OLD Recovery Site
- Perform and uninstall of the SRM from the existing OLD recovery site box and remove the plugin from the VCenter
- Install the new SRM Node in the Hosted DR as the default Site with EMC RecoverPoint SRA v 2.2
- If the install fails to mate with the Prod VCenter, we need to be prepared to completely gut both SRM sites from the environment and reinstall from scratch
Many Thanks,
DGN
