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The Dell PowerFlex Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) for VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) allows SRM to implement disaster recovery for PowerFlex clusters. Using the PowerFlex replication engine, PowerFlex Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) supports all SRM functions including planned migration, failover, reprotect, and test failover.
PowerFlex offers the SRA for the Photon OS-based SRM appliances only. There is no SRA for the deprecated SRM Windows platform. The VMware website hosts the SRA and is available and downloadable under various versions of SRM. The SRA is titled as shown in Figure 4.
The following table, Table 2, presents the PowerFlex SRA Compatibility Matrix for PowerFlex and VMware SRM. To determine the supported versions of ESXi and vCenter with the chosen SRM version, see the Site Recovery Manager Compatibility Matrices.
Table 2. Supported versions for PowerFlex SRA 1.0.0.1
PowerFlex 3.5.1 or higher or 4.x | |
PowerFlex Rack PowerFlex Appliance PowerFlex Custom Node | 8.2 8.3 8.5 [3] 8.6 [3] 8.7 [3] 8.8 [3] |
Note: PowerFlex does not have a VASA Provider 3.0 and cannot support Virtual Volume (vVol) replication with SRM.
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[1] For complete and detailed VMware supported versions with SRM, including ESXi and vCenter, see the VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Compatibility Matrix available on the VMware support website.
[2] The SRA supports VMware Site Recovery Manager patched releases beyond the initially supported major release. For example, if an updated version of 8.6 became available (8.6.1), it would be supported. Dell Technologies does not do the additional qualification, however, so it does not appear in the VMware compatibility matrix.
[3] Granted by VMware through equivalency.