Setup
vCenter and ESXi 5.5u2
Site Recovery Manager 5.8
EMC Recoverpoint 4.1
VNX Storage
EMC Recoverpoint SRA 2.1
Ok we have done;
1. Full SRM Test Plan - success
2. Actual SRM planned migration from old dc (now recovery site) to new dc (now protected site) - sucess
Now want to run a full DR simulation, i.e. WAN link will be cut and SRM DR invoked in recovery site. We will of course manually power down protected site vms before re establishing the link
Questions I had;
1. Once the new site is up, docs seem to suggest I run planned migration to ensure vm objects are removed from old protected site and storage unmounted in old protected site....what is the impact at this point does RP and VNX know we are running recovery site and not overwrite storage.
- Do I need to pause replication manually on the recovery RecoverPoint at any point?
2. Then I should run a reprotect to reverse replication from recovery to protected sites.
3. Then do a planned migration and further reprotect.
If i wanted to not reprotect in SRM,any idea on the steps to manually recreate protection