Hello,
in a shared recovery site used for Disaster Recovery to the Cloud, deploing SRM 5.1 with vSphere Replication appliance (VRM) 5.1
which versions of SRM and vSphere Replication can I have on the proteted sites?
Can I offer the DR solution both to 5.0and 5.1 vSphere versions? Or customers must upgrade to the same version used in the Cloud?
In other words a vSphere 5.0 ESXi host can use the VR towards a 5.1 ESXi host (through a 5.1 VR server) ?
Thanks! Mirko
Hello All,
I have set up SRM using storage replication and both my sites are connected. Now I am ready to do my first recovery test. I have a question. I am sorry if the question is stupid as this is the first time i am doing this.
If i check the recovery steps under recovery plan in srm plugin in vcenter, i can see my protected vms power on priority. If i configure the vm and goto IP settings, I can set the IP address of this VM at protected site as well as recovery site.
Q1) If I do not check customize IP during recovery option, then will the machine automatically get the new IP at the recovery site using dhcp? If yes, the will it get the ip from the correct subnet which it is a part of in vcenter (vlan)?
Q2) If I set the recover ip manually then after the failover when VM is started at the recovery site, what happens to the old DNS entry? The vm will try to make a new dns entry with same hostname but different ip while as the old entry still exists.
Thanks - AG
Hi,
In the SRM recovery Steps, I use powershell scripts to control a NetApp NAS, which is accessed by my protected virtual machines for an application (VM Datastores resides on the SAN).
The recovery works fine, for both virtual machines and theirs NAS resources.
I want to automatize the re-protection of the NAS and include it in the SRM process. My script is ready, but I can't see how to add it in the reprotection steps.
Do you know if it is possible to do that ?
For information, we run on vCenter 5.0, and SRM 5.0.2.
Thanks !
Hello
I have 2 servers with SRM 4.1, one is the protected site and the other the recovery site. In both server, I changed the domain account used by SRM to talk with the Vcenter, because the account used during the installation is not longer valid. I followed http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&externalId=1008165
Now I can open SRM in both servers, but when I try to configure the Array managers an error is displayed saying: Unable to find any array script. I do not know if this work in the past, the installation was done by coworker but he left the company.
Any idea how to fix this issue?
Have the array manager a log file to check what is happening?
Which are the best practices to reinstall IBM SRA?
Thanks in advance
Hi all!
Have been all over the internet and finding it very difficult to find what plugins are needed to set up array based replication SRM.
Our current set up:
vCenter 5.0 – primary vCenter
vCenter 5.0 – secondary vCenter
SRM01 – SRM server built to work with primary site
SRM02 – SRM server built to work long side secondary site (recovery)
SRM installed and both sites linked
EMC VMAX symmetrix SAN
On the 2 vCenters I have installed
- EMC VSI Path Management
- EMC VSI Storage Viewer
- EMC Recover Point Storage Recplication Adapter
I have downloaded the following plugins and trying to install them on my SRM servers but non of them seem to work:
- EMC SRDF SRA 5.0 - Comes back with error saying EMC soultions enabler required.
- I then went to the vmware site and downloaded the only thing under SRM that said enabler which was EMC VNX SRA with enablers
- Once downloaded it contained the following:
- EMC Mirrorview Enabler for VNX SRA
- EMC VNX replicator Enabler for VNX SRA
- EMC VNX SRA
- I have tried to run them all but they come back saying SRA is not installed
The last plugin I have is EMC VSI SRA. When I try to run this it comes back with error and saying EMC SRDF adapter not detected.
Please can anyone tell me what plugins are required and where do I install them? As in on the SRM server or the vCenter servers
Thanks
Austin.
Hi all,
I need some help.
I'm installing SRM 5.1 on a new site with the following specs:
2* ESXi 5.1 Hosts (build 799733) and a 5.1 vCenter (build 880146).
After pairing the sites, I try to deploy the VR appliance from the SRM plugin. the error I get is this:
This OVF package uses features that are not supported.
Line 157: Unsupported section '{http://www.vmware.com/schema/ovf}vServiceDependencySection' (vCenter Extension vService Dependency).
When I looked it up, I found that the "Managed IP Address" and "vCenter Server Name" values (under vcenter settings -> runtime settings) both need to be filled out, but I filled them prior to the attempt to deploy.
so... what can I do?
I’m wishing to upgrade from SRM 5.01 to 5.1.1. My VC is
currently 5.01 and will also be going to 5.1.1.
I note from the product interoperability matrix that Vcenter
5.0 will only support SRM 5.0, 5.0.1 & 5.0.2 so somethings going to break
one way or another as if I upgrade VCenter first to 5.1.1 the that only works
with SRM 5.1 & 5.1.1.
So the question is, do I upgrade VC to 5.1.1 first then
upgrade SRM to 5.1 and then be able to upgrade it to 5.1.1 immediately after (SRM
cant go from 5.0.1 straight to 5.1.1 but it can go to 5.1) or do I upgrade SRM
first to 5.1 then upgrade the VCenter? I’m thinking the latter for it means at
no point should SRM have an issue with the installed version of the Vcenter.
Anyone see a flaw with this?
Hi all,
Here is an SRM noob question:
I currently have a VM with 2 disks attached to it (60Gb and a 400Gb) and it's currently replicating every 1hour..
Will changing RPO's (say from 1hr to 15min) cause the Datastores to Initialise a Full sync?
It has Successfully replicated and all... can restore at the DC... however when I change the RPO times and click next and next and next it doesn't tell me it will re-use the existing disks... Should I point to it and have it prompt me to re-use the .vmdks
Any comments will be appreciated.
thank you.
We're going to be running a business continuity test soon and my predecessor has configured SRM so that VMs are grouped into their logical groups. Which makes sense. But what if I only want to recover one VM from a group of 5? I see I can change the power state of individual VMs but unless it's hidden away I'm not seeing anywhere I can choose which ones to recover individually.
In this case would it be better if I created individual protection groups per VM?
Hi,
Anyone to have some experiance with this enviroment? I need to set RPO with ABR on v7000. I set v7000 to work with SRM, but no RPO defined.
Hello all
Need another helping hand with SRM configuration.
I had got all the plugins installed and configured array managers for our protected site and recovery site.
I'm not to sure on what information to provide which can help getting your support with the current issue. I would attach the logs but not sure on where to find them.
I have attached the error I'm currently getting.
I have read through some of the articles and posts regarding people having the same issue but the fixes mentioned I had done already like .net 3.5 and services account admin rights and installing perl.
Please let me know if anymore information needed.
Thanks
Austin.
Hi,
Is it possible/supported to use the same (external Oracle rac 11) for as srm the virtual center database, using a different user of course.
Or should I have to create a seperate db for srm?
thanks,
Peter
Hello,
I have two vcenter 4.x with full configuration SRM
We want to migrate ESXi from Site A into a new Vcenter 5.x and use a metrocluster architecture at the end.
I want to disabled/suspend or uninstall the SRM on Site A (Source site) because i don't know if SRM apply recovery when we decomissioned ESXi from Vcenter 4 to Vcenter 5
Tha two old vcenter 4 would not be used after mirgration.
Thanks,
Hi,
I want to ask if you have ever seen a design looked like a Site Recovery over an IAAS infrastructure. Do you think that it may be possible or not?
Regards,
Andry Tiana ANDRIANALY
Hello,
I am running two vCenters, one is hosting the Primary (Protected site) and the other is my dedicated DR site. I am using VR replication on all my VMs in the primary site. When I open up Site Recovery and click on vSphere replication all my VMs appear to have replicated successfully as can be seen in the screenshot.
When I attempt to protect the VMs using a protection group I am getting the error below, which seems to indicate that replication is not working properly, however as you can see from the screenshot below replication doesn't appear to be a problem. I've also verified that the VM files appear in the target datastore in the DR site.
I am running vCenter 5.1 on both sites, and SRM 5.1 with VR replication.
Any ideas where I can start troubleshooting?
Hi,
I know from reading the documentation I need to appropriate SRA, which I have. The issues I am seeing is I can not find what particular NavCLI I need to download.. Do I need to download and install on the ESXi hosts? or somewhere else?
Where do I download it from, I was given a navcli to install on the ESXi nodes but it is in RPM format, can that be installed on a ESXi node?
Has anyone installed SRM5.0 on a VNX5300?
If so guidance would be appreciative.
thanks
Hi Sir
I am working in client place for SRM implementation.
Here i have a VMware vSphere , Vmware vCenter server and SRM setup in two different location for production environment.
My Setup is like this:-
Recovery site:-
2 EXSi 5.1.0-Update1 host .
vCenter server 5.1.0-update1 on Windows server 2012 in first virtual machine.
SRM 5.1.1 on Windows server 2012 in second Virtual machine
vSphere replication appliance deployed at recovery site.
Protection site
1 ESXI 5.1.0-update1 host
vCenter server 5.1.0-update1 on Windows server 2012 in first virtual machine
SRM 5.1.1 on windows server 2012 in 2nd Virtual machine
vSphere replication appliance deployed at protection site.
3 virtual machine for development use.
Note: - 1. I have done all the required setting for SRM and replication is successful, but after adding virtual machine in protection group when i running test and recovery plan getting error in the time test and recovery time. Could anyone please suggest me where i am doing wrong?
please check the atached screenshot
please help me for this
thanks
deep
I am about to install SRM 5.02 in our environment. We have two sites one Production and one for DR.
We would like to have the ability to fail back after a disaster (Reprotect?).
It appears to do this I will need to go to Vcenter linked mode.
While I'm not adverse to going to linked mode I want to upgrade to Vcenter 5.1 before doing so.
So the question is can I install SRM 5.02 in unidirectional mode now and convert to bidirectional mode at a later date after the Vcenter servers are converted to linked mode?
Just spent days troubleshooting vSphere Replication in the lab. Installation of the VRMS and VRS servers went without issue. Configuring replication on a VM completed without error. But when I would view the replication status, it always said "Not Active" and never replicated. When I hit "Synchronize Now" it would pop up the following error:
Call "HmsGroup.OnlineSync" for object "GID" on Server "" failed. An unknown error has occurred.
Investigating the vmkernel logs on the ESXi host with the source VM I found this:
2012-07-12T21:30:06.452Z cpu1:2049)WARNING: Hbr: 3855: Failed to establish connection to [10.11.49.44]:31031(groupID=GID-dc6e77d9-f516-408b-9d11-8ea3b315e253): VR: The set of disks on the server doesn't match up
Finally called support and they eventually found a relevant bug report.
Apparently if you use NetApp's mbralign tool to align your disks it can cause a miss-match between the protected and recovery sides for the disks and this error results. You also seem to have to have more than one disk attached to the VM for this to happen.
The fix is to edit the vmdk settings and add 5 MB to the disk size. You don't have to re-partition to actually use the 5MB, you just have to grow the disk by 5 MB. Then magically replication starts working.
That was a weird one that I find nothing on anywhere, so thought I would share. I'm sure VMware will put out a KB at some point.
SRM datastore extend : we are planning to extend the protected datastore on SRM 5 as it is 2 way replication , i want to know do we need to pause the replication and extend the datastore or how. please share