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Now that VMware HA is configured and host rules are created, use SRDF/Metro HA Setup, Adding SRDF/Metro Smart DR protection to an existing SRDF/Metro configuration and Creating SRDF/Metro and Smart DR protection at the same time sections to configure SRDF/Metro Smart DR for the ESXi HA cluster environment. Once SRDF/Metro is configured, provision it to the ESXi cluster. Both R1 and R2 sides of the ESXi cluster will show devices with identical Network Addressing Authority identifier (NAA) validating that the device identities match because of the SRDF/Metro configuration.
Figure 43. Device NAAs on both sides of ESXi cluster using SRDF/Metro
These devices display as “cluster enabled” under available storage for the ESXi host. Use these devices to configure the data stores for an SRDF/Metro enabled VMware Metro Cluster. Follow these steps for more details:
Figure 44. Data store on SRDF/Metro devices