Hi all,
do you know if SRM can be configured in a way that it does not perform some of standard steps of a Recovery Plan? For example during a planned migration SRM issues commands to storage to synchronize replicated datastores, then stops replication, then makes the target devices at the recovery site writable. Is it possible to have these storage-related steps done by another tool and use SRM only for remaining steps? (So SRM would skip the part where it sends commands to storage array and would just resume with restoring of VMs.)
Why I'm asking - we're working on a DR design for a heterogeneous environment (VMs + Unix). It has been requested to group VMs’ and Unix servers’ disks based on applications. This would be done on a storage level with reconfiguration of something called consistency groups. (1 CG will contain disks from various platforms.) As a result we would probably need some central orchestration/management of DR for vmware and unix. The idea was that the central platform agnostic tool would take care of storage - correctly split the replication. make devices R/W - and vmware (SRM) "would be given" ready LUNs on the recovery site and it would somehow continue with recovering of VMs.
I'm not saying I like this idea but I just would like to know if something like that could work.
Thanks!