We are in the process of setting up VMware SRM 5.1 in our environment with two EMC VNX storage arrays and I have some questions.
Our two sites each have a VNX 5700 array. LUN replication from our primary datacenter to the D/R center (using Mirror View) was set up prior to the SRM install and is running. I've installed SRM at each site, and the VNX and Mirrorview SRA components. SRM is seeing the arrays and the luns.
At the recovery site, I have some VMWare hosts already set up and talking to the array. They are in a storage group on the VNX along with some "local" LUN's (not replicated).
My question is about the EMC/Storage Group configuration with the replicated LUN's on the D/R site array. Currently the LUN's that are the Mirrorview targets on the D/R site are not in any storage group. Do I just add them to the storage group with the VMWare hosts, just like the "local" LUNs? If I do that, how do the LUN's show up on the hosts at the D/R center? I'm assuming that since the Mirrorview replication is going from the primary to the D/R site, the LUN's will not be writable at the D/R site. Do the hosts at the D/R site see the LUN's as off line?
I just don't want to do anything to mess up the replication of the LUN's from the primary to the D/R site.