Concept Guide

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Installing and configuring Storage
Replication Adapter (SRA)
Downloading SRA
The Dell MD Series SRA is used with VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to facilitate data center
failover between separate vCenter Server environments. To use the SRA, download the latest version
from the Drivers and Download page available at Dell.com/support.
• For the latest supported versions of SRA and VMware reference, see the Support Matrix available in the
Manual section of your array at Dell.com/support.
• md5sum: You can find the md5sum value at the VMware Site Recovery Manager website for Dell MD
Storage Replication Adapter.
You can calculate the Md5sums on any UNIX host with md5sum installed or by obtaining a Windows
utility like md5sum.exe from etree.org/md5com.html and running the following command at
command line interface (CLI).
md5sum <file_name>
NOTE: Any references to filenames are for example purposes only.
If the file is downloaded with the installer, you can run the following command to verify the installer
package.
SRAInstaller-xx.xx.xxx.xxxx.xxx
Figure 1. Example MD5 Evaluation
Installation procedure
After verifying that the downloaded file is complete and not corrupt, copy the installer to your intended
SRM servers and run the SRA installer on those servers. You can view the latest information contained in
the readme.txt file at the end of the installation by clicking Yes.
SRA is installed at the following location:
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