In this recipe, we will look into how to automate SRM (Site Recovery Manager).
You will need SRM installed and base configured. Meaning that SRM should be configured either with vSphere Replication or an SRA (Storage Replication Adapter) that connects to your storage. If you are new to SRM, have a look at the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drOdnRaDZ4Q .
Last but not least, you need the vSphere Replication plugin (see the introduction to this chapter).
This recipe is broken up into several sections.
You need to make sure that the following things are set:
Orchestrator is authenticating to the PSC (vSphere authentications)
Orchestrator is configured to use both the protected and the recovery vCenter
The protected and the recovery vCenter must be in the same SSO domain
The user that is used in the vCenter connection should have SRM rights on both the protected and the recovery vCenter