How do I activate NVMe support in Pure Storage SRAs

To use NVMe datastores with Pure Storage SRAs, you must reconfigure the storage replication adapter.

Procedure

1. Log in to the VMware Live Site Recovery Appliance Management Interface on the protected site as admin.
2. Click the Storage Replication Adapters tab.
3. Select the appropriate Storage Replication Adapter card, click the drop-down menu (), and click Download Configuration Archive.
   The configuration files are distributed as .tar.gz archives.
4. Navigate to the directory where you saved the SRA configuration archive file and open it.
5. Change the NVMe support option to true and save the file.
   <NvmeSupport>true</NvmeSupport>
6. Log in to the VMware Live Site Recovery Appliance Management Interface on the protected site as admin.
7. Click the Storage Replication Adapters tab.
8. Select the appropriate Storage Replication Adapter card, click the drop-down menu (), and click Upload Configuration Archive.
9. Navigate to the directory where you saved the SRA configuration archive file, select it and click Open.
10. Repeat Step 1 through Step 9 on the recovery site.
11. In the vSphere Client on the protected site, click Site Recovery > Open Site Recovery.
12. On the Live Site Recovery home tab, select a site pair, and click View Details.
13. On the Site Pair tab, click Configure > Array Based Replication > Array Pairs.
14. Select the array pair and click Array Manager Pair > Discover Array Pairs to rescan the arrays.
15. Repeat Step 11 through Step 14 on the recovery site.