Dell PowerVault MD3800i - Manual (Page 5)

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Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) Installation
And Configuration
Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) Download
The Dell MD-Series Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) 5.0 is used in conjunction with VMware Site Recovery Manager
to facilitate datacenter failover between separate vCenter Server environments. To utilize the SRA, download the latest
version of the SRA from the Drivers and Download page at dell.com/support.
• Current version is 05.10.3600.00xx
• Installer is SRAInstaller-05.10.3600.00xx.exe
• md5sum: md5sum value can be found at the VMware Site Recovery Manager website for Dell MD Storage
Replication Adapter.
Md5sums may be calculated 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 from a command prompt.
md5sum <file_name>
If the file is downloaded with the Installer, you can run the following command to verify the installer package.
SRAInstaller-05.10.3600.00xx.md5
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 to view the readme.
SRA is installed at the following location:
On x64 hosts C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager\storage\sra
On x86 hosts C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager\storage\sra
After SRA is installed, rescan for SRAs from the Site Recovery manager in the vSphere Client.
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