hello ,
We have sites, all critical VM's protected with VMware Srm + IBM SVC. During the setup phase we did the fail-over and fail-back tests and everything works smooth.
Recently we had a storage outage and we lost the all the LUNs in primary location, then we have tried to recover the VM's in secondary location using SRM . unforunatly its not working with below error.
"The error is "Error failed to promote replicate devices. SRA command 'failover' failed. Invalid Array ID. Refer to IBM SAN Volume Controller troubleshooting Failed to promote replica devices. SRA command 'failover failed' Invalid Array ID. Refer to IBM SAN Volume Controller troubleshooting"
Sadly we have manually mount the LUN's to ESXi servers and started the VMs manually.
Does anyone seen the error ?
The next step was we have built the SRM test environment and did the following tests..
1. failover and failback tests - the result was success..
2. deleting the LUN in primary location and recovering the VM from DR location . Unfortunately its failed with same as above SRA error.
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How do we simulate the real disaster scenario with SRM ?
"Like deleting the primary location VM lun and recover the VM from secondary site with SRM" is that right test case ?
Regards,
Surya
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