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after doing a failover and failback -- replicated datastore

July 5, 2013, 10:12 am
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So I have a question of the state of the datastore where my vms are on after doing a array based failover and fail back.

 

I did a reocvery failover of a few vms, and then did a reprotect and finally failed the vms back to their original location.. So when I view the vms they are currently running on the original cluster before testing with SRM (as expected)

 

what I was not expecting is the datastore the vms are using has the prefix "snap" still.

 

I do not really think the datastore they are using is a snapshot, when I did a esxcfg-volume -l, nothing came up as far as snapshots.

 

So did it not just remove the "snap" prefix or am I missing something...

 

thanks!!!

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SRA command 'queryInfo' didn't return a response

July 8, 2013, 12:50 pm
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Hello,

 

Trying to install NetApp SRA in SRM.  SRA detected the NetApp controller at the remote site but I won't at the local site.  I always get this error message : Failed to load SRA from 'C:/Program Files (x86)/VMware/VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager/storage/sra/ONTAP'. SRA command 'queryInfo' didn't return a response.

 

I have tried uninstall/reinstall SRM, SRA, Perl : nothing as changed.  If anyone have an idea about what could be the problem, it would be great to share it over here.

 

Thanks,

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Design questions for vCenter 5.1, SSO and SRM

January 29, 2013, 1:34 pm
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Currently running vcenter 5.0 U1 at primary and recovery sites.  These vcenter servers are currently in linked mode. In researching the upgrade to 5.1, I see a requirement that all vcenter servers in a linked mode group must be registered to the same SSO server. This seems like a requirement for a single point of failure if you want to use linked mode, if there is only one SSO server. I realize this applies to an environment without SRM as well. I bring this up in the SRM forum because I think it applies to most SRM environments.

 

My question is, how can I design for the recovery site to be independant of the primary site? Of course we want the recovery site to be available in a total loss of primary site scenario. In SRM 5.0 I believe linked mode is not required, but it is still recommended.

 

Maybe the answer is in SSO/vCenter design and I have not read enough about that yet. Just wondering if anyone has any thoughts...

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SRM Install with Multiple VCs at Site

July 9, 2013, 7:52 pm
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Question on SRM (5.1) install with multiple vCenters at site. I cant find a clear answer on this.  This is a classic Protected/Recovery DR design.  Two datacenters, Prime and "DR".  Question has to do with number of VC at the Prime Site. I have plenty of information on SRM datacenter locations with one vCenter each, but not multiple.

 

The Prime Datacenter has multiple vCenters representing different environments.  For SRM the two sites will match.  For every VC at PRIME, there will be one at DR.  However is on SRM that I have the issue:

 

  • Do I need to install SRM Instance for each VC at Prime location and its partner at DR location? Would this also mean each SRM instance needs its own DB?

 

OR

 

  • Can I install a single instance of SRM on its own server at each site to control the Prime site and all VCs located there and have the same at the DR site?  This would be very similar to SSO in that respect (one SSO server per location).

 

Consolidating the VC is not an option.  Company likes their environments to be separated even on the vCenter level.  One upside, all the VCs are linked.  Very nice single pane of glass way to review the all the VCs in the corporation.

 

Thanks,

 

Boston Tech Guy

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DR-IP-Customizer on Shared SRM Instance

July 11, 2013, 11:28 am
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Getting an error when executing the DR-IP-CUSTOMIZER on the target vCenter server:

 

error:  unable to locate the srm extention on the vmware vcenter

 

Has anyone successfully run the tool with a shared SRM instance?

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Different versions of SRM at sites

July 11, 2013, 8:51 am
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SRM 5.02 is installed at our Production site and our DR site.

I just got through upgrading the Vcenter server at our DR site to 5.1.

 

I need to upgrade SRM as 5.02 isn't compatible with Vcenter 5.1.

I  don't plan to update:the production Vcenter for a couple of weeks so the question:

 

Will SRM work with different version across the 2 sites?

 

I assume the answer is no but am hoping I'm wrong.

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SRM quiescing method

July 15, 2013, 12:48 am
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Hallo,

what is the best or recommended "quiescing method" in Site Recovery - configuring replication dialog (wizard)? Pls. see screenshot.

We usually use "MS volume shadow copy VSS" but on frequently replicated VM's it is in collision with traditional backup tasks (Symantec BE).

It works fine with quiescing method "none" but I am not sure if the replicated VM is 100% OK and consistent.

Thank you for opinion / reaction.

Ondrej

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New vCenter Server

July 16, 2013, 8:27 am
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Pretty sure the answer is going to be recreate protection groups and recovery plans but will ask anyways.

 

We are moving to a new install of vCenter and will be pointing the current SRM environment over to the new vCenter.  Is there anyway of getting around recreating all the protection groups and recovery plans?  The new vCenter will look exactly like the old one as far as resource pools and things go, VM's are not changing storage locations, but will be vmotioned around in order to upgrade the hosts.

 

Thanks

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Failover Recovery Plan stuck

July 17, 2013, 2:47 am
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Hi all!

 

We our now in test phase for our SRM setup.

 

I created a protected group with 3 servers and then click on recovery to do a test.

 

It seemed like it recovered fine, but now when I try to do a clean up it won't work.

 

For the past 2 weeks now it has just been stuck at failover recovery plan 36%. I have looked at the recovery plan and it just says recovery in progress.

I am new to SRM and having trouble trying to find how and why it is stuck.

 

I have restarted all SRM services and virtual center server service.

 

We have 2 SRM servers and 2 vCentre servers.

 

I am not to sure on where the logs are that I can attach to this.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

Notes

We are using array replication and have an EMC san.

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SRM failover - customize IP (srm5.0.2)

July 17, 2013, 2:37 pm
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All,

 

I have been testing failovers before it goes into production.

 

I have been having issues with the customization of the IPs.

We have linux VMs

 

I noticed that the default value for cusomization is 600 secs. If I am reviewing the proper config, Mine is set to 600 sec.

 

I am receiving the error"

 

Error Connecting to VM vm-135: Operation timed out after '20.000000' seconds

 

 

any help would be great!!!

 

thanks

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SRM 5.1.1 with Windows 2012

July 18, 2013, 7:39 am
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I am installing SRM 5.1.1 on Windows 2012.

UAC is off, I am a local Administrator and I still run the .exe as Administrator.

I get through the install wizard and right at the end, I get the Error Message 1 (attached).

I looked through the logs, nothing seems suspicious or really any error messages.

I took out the space in my destination install folder for "Program Files" and made it "ProgramFiles" and ended up with Error Message 2 (attached). This tells me that the install doesn't like spaces in the destination folder. I tried to put in quotes for the destination folder and that doesn't work.

Anyone else running across this? For now, I have to get this installed so I will take out all spaces but if anyone gets an actual fix for this, it would be highly appreciated to post it here.

 

Thanks!

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VMware SRM Reprotect Fails with Peer array ID provided in the SRM input is incorrect

July 18, 2013, 2:46 am
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I have the following setup

 

Site-A

VMware vCenter 5.1 U1

VMware SRM 5.1.1

NetApp SRA 2.0.1P2

FAS3140C - Data ONTAP 8.1.2P4

 

Site-B

VMware vCenter 5.1 U1

VMware SRM 5.1.1

NetApp SRA 2.0.1P2

FAS3140C - Data ONTAP 8.1.2P4

 

I have created a basic Protection group at Site-A containing a single VM with a single vmdk hard disk on a NFS volume.

The NFS volume is snapmirrored to Site-B

I can perform a planned migration to Site-B, reprotect and then another planned migration back to Site-A but then when I attempt to reprotect again so that I am ready for another recovery to Site-B the reprotect fails on the first step Configure Storage to Reverse Direction with "Error - Failed to reverse replication for failed over devices. SRA command 'prepareReverseReplication' failed. Peer array ID provided in the SRM input is incorrect Check the SRM logs to verify correct peer array ID."

 

I cannot see anything on the Filer logs or in the SRM logs to indicate what the issue is.

 

This happens for every Protection Group I create so it is not isolated to just this one volume.  I have also tried with iSCSI VMFS volumes and get exactly the same results.

 

If I create a Protection Group at Site-B I can recover to Site-A and cannot reprotect it to fail it back to Site-B.

 

Initially I though the issue I was seeing is that I could do a failback but couldn't perform a second reprotect because the SnapMirrors were left in the wrong state but now I can see that the issue is that I cannot perform a reprotect from Site-A to Site-B.

 

I have completely un-installed SRM at both locations, removed the SRM database at both locations and started again but still get the same issue.

 

I've actually got IBM N series N6040 controllers and am using the IBM branded Data ONTAP and SRA.  I have a call open with VMware and IBM but not getting very far.

 

Has anyone seen this issue before and got a solution?

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MSCS - Microsoft NLB cluster

July 19, 2013, 2:53 am
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Hi,

We have 4 node NLB cluster in Production site and we are planning protect it with SRM 5.1.1.

SRM 5.1.1 supports 2 Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) nodes.  vSphere 5.1.x supports up to 5 MSCS nodes. SRM 5.1.x supports 2 MSCS nodes.

 

Is it possible to have 4 node NLB in production and protect only two nodes with SRM? as we just need two nodes for DR.

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SRM 5.1-941848/NetApp RDMs - Always getting errors

January 17, 2013, 1:47 pm
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This is a bit frustrating. Since day 1 of deployment, SRM has NEVER been consistent in behavior. The Engineer that originally deployed the install stated that in his experience it's just not something that always runs from beginning to end without some sort of "issue". Most of the time we can just push through a failure, but at other times you have to spend days, if not weeks troubleshooting through issues. Being bounced around from the storage vendor to VMware with each side claiming the issue is not theirs.

 

Within 5 months I've reinstalled SRM about 6 times now. I can do it in my sleep at this point.

 

Calling VMware and having to wait 1-2 days for a response, and then another week or so for another after logs are collected is not ideal anymore, so I'm hoping I can figure out this issue here within the community.

 

Sorry for the rant, I just feel like at this point we should have completed our Production failover test and still find myself battling what seems like the same old errors.

 

So, on with the error. We are using the latest SRM build (5.1.0 -941848) and the latest SRA adapter from NetApp. When attempting a test recovery with a VMFS datastore with guests that have RDMs I will get the following errors:

 

Error - Failed to sync data on replica device '/vol/volumename/qt1/lun1'. Device found is neither of the SAN type nor of the NAS type. Ensure that the device exists on the storage array and is of type NAS or SAN.

 

I found a few articles that walk you through disabling fastpath on the filers and also changing the storage value from the default 5 connections down to 2. The second option fixed this issue last time I was presented with it. When it happened again VMware support said the volume in question didn't have any room for snapshots as they were full. i was advised to clear some up and then retry the test. Here I have done all of the above and yet I still see the issues.

 

We have a production failover test scheduled for the weekend after next. At this point I hate to push this back as it wouldn't be the first time we did.

 

 

 

And FYI, those of you that believe a TEST is a substancial "test".. it's not. Doing a full blown Recovery compared to just a TEST is night and day. In our exprience we've run many succesful tests to only have them blow up when doing a RECOVERY.

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Clarification SRM permissions

July 21, 2013, 10:44 pm
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Hi

 

I am having a go at installing SRM. I have added the required SRM roles to the permissions tab under the site recovery plugin for both protected and recovery sign.
There is also an administrator role specified as well since it is required.
Do I also need to assign my SRM roles to the vCenter objects? From what I understand the SRM actually uses the account used to make site connection so that to me says I would not need to specify them again.

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DR Solutions

July 23, 2013, 2:36 pm
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Hi,

What are the DR &  Back up solutions available with VMWARE for critical servers and how will it work  .

 

 

 

Regards,

Ragesh

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concurrent recoveries

July 24, 2013, 2:36 am
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SRM and NLB

July 24, 2013, 11:26 am
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Can anyone tell me that SRM 5.1 support the IP Injection of Microsoft NLB. Because I am the issue while injecting multiple ip's on single NIC.

 

Primary Site

vCenter 5.0

SRM 5.1.1

EXSi 4.1

 

DR Site

vCenter 5.0

SRM 5.1.1

EXSi 5.0

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SRM 5.1 configuration

July 24, 2013, 2:54 pm
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Hi all, I am currently trying to upgrade my SRM 4.1 environment to SRM 5.1. My question is the following.

 

Can SRM 5.1 work on a mix environment? I was able to work with a mix environment of ESX 3.5 and ESX 4.0 and VC Server 2.5 and VCenter 4.0 with no issues. But I've never done a 4.1 and 5.1.

 

I currently have Two environment with 4.1 ESX hosts and 4.1 VC Server. What I want to do is to upgrade the recovery site VC Server first and run with VC Server 5.1 (SRM 5.1) and ESX hosts 4.1. On the protected site I will leave it as is at VC Server 4.1 and ESX hosts 4.1 until I'm able to do the upgrade. Does the SSO feature or any other features in VC Server 5.1 interfere with any of the components of VC server 4.1?

 

Please let me know if you need anymore information. Any help will be greatly appreciated. I will continue to research but a push in the right direction will be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks

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SRM 5.1 multi-vendor storage support

July 25, 2013, 2:58 am
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Hi all,

        I wanted to ask whether the SRM 5.1 supports multiple vendor storages to replicate VMs? I've a IBM storage and want to replicate it to Dell storage. If not then what are my options? Thanks in advance.

 

Regards.

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