Hi All
We have a primary and DR site, bith sites have 5 ESXi 5.0 hosts and a separate Vcentre. We are running SRM 5.0
Storage is EMC VNX 5500, we are replicating asynchronously with snap mirror.
We done a full SRM testing using a test LUN / Protection group at the weekend as we are planning a full DR test shortly, we chose the full test but slected the planned option (we did not want to do the isolated test where it does a snapshot and ring fences it)
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Everything went fine, we failed the VM's over to our DR site, tested then after 20 minutes we re-protected and failed them back to our primary site.
2 Questions I have are
A, it took 8 minutes to fail them over but 25 minutes to fail them back, seemed to spend a fair amount of time on stage “Preparing the protected VM’s for migration” , what's actually happening under the hood at this stage?
B. After everything has been completed I looked a Vcentre and I see that the test LUN which was originally called TESTSRMLUN01 (original I know) however it is now called "snap-433ad3a8-TESTSRMLUN01", also on our DR side there is a LUN of the same name but status inactive, why has it renamed the Datastore and also why would the datastore still be showing on our DR side Vcentre, I would have thought as part of the reprotect and failback we did the LUN would have been de presented to DR side
Thanks
Nick