Historically, disaster recovery (DR) solutions have been difficult and costly to implement. DR has been a pain point for many IT administrators, having to maintain consistency across duplicate hardware in various locations, documenting and maintaining detailed run books, reacting to changes in the environment, and scheduling testing that is classically disruptive to the production environment. VMware’s Site Recovery Manager (SRM) works with the Dell EqualLogic PS Series built-in Auto-Replication feature to make disaster recovery rapid, manageable, reliable and affordable.

This technical report will discuss the installation and configuration of Site Recovery Manager with the Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage arrays. It will cover setup, testing, failover, failback and troubleshooting. This document is designed to be used in conjunction with the Administrator Guide for Site Recovery Manager and assumes a prior knowledge of VMware Virtual Infrastructure.