Just to provide more detail:
I really can't find what else can be configured on the SRM servers - for the SRA
I have also worked out that the "SAN Volume Controller" = SVC = V7000 as far as the pdf documentation is concerned. This was causing a little confusion too, as we come to grips with the terminology they're using.
The V7000 on each site has only one big Storage Pool - and this contains the volumes. One volume is replicated, to test out SRM.
The "Test MDisk Group ID" which is set on each SRM Server is the same as the Storage Pool name? (if not then that is my problem - but I don't see what else to use)
Our name is long (Tier1_600GB_10k) but the documentation uses 0 (zero) as the "Test MDisk Group ID"
One thing to note is - the pool name is different on each site. For some reason they are called:
Tier1_600GB_15k - protected site
Tier1_600GB_10k - recovery site
I have configured the SRM server on each site to use the correct name for it's "Test MDisk Group ID"
Our test volume is "consistent synchronized" to the recovery site, and the "copy" on the recovery site is not mapped to any esxi hosts.
I would love to be able to extract the essential commands from the perl scripts (and add my own values for th evariables) to test these scripts manually.
If anyone could decipher the perl scripts to manually (by entering values instead of using variables) run a test failover - that would be great!