SRM Test Plan - Best practices on how long I can keep up the Test Plan?
Hello All, question about running the Test Plan. Is there a best practice time for how long we can have a Test Plan run for before we have to run the Cleanup? Like Snapshots, VMware recommends not to...
View ArticleVsphere Replication 6.5 w/ SRM 6.5 Changing VM Disk Sizes
Hi, What is the best way to update a VM that is protected with Vsphere Replication? I have to stop replication every time and loose all my point in time recovery, and its a massive hassle makes me...
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How do I configure SRM for a VM with RDM?
Hi, I have confiured SRM for other VM servers but I am having trouble with one that has RDMs connected. I originally set up the VM to use SRM and detached the RDM. I know want to have the RDM connect...
View ArticleSRM 5.5 VR Reprotect question in a 1:N setup
I am in the initial stages of testing a 1:N SRM 5.5 setup. I have vcenterA (production) and vcenterB (DR). I also have two remote clusters, clusterA (production, hosted on vcenterA) and clusterB (DR,...
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SRM Reprotect to site with multiple VR appliances in multiple security zones
When protecting a VM with VR, you have the option to either allow VR to auto-select a replication appliance in the recovery site to receive the incoming replication data stream or to manually select...
View ArticleSRM 6.1 vs Stretched Cluster (vMSC)
Hello, A while ago were decided to use SRM for our disaster recovery tool for about 25 vms. We use a mix of vSphere Replication and Array base replication (Currently using Asyncronous IP replication...
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SRM and Veritas Backup Exec - MS Exchange Backup
Hi, I'm using SRM to sync my VM virtual servers (with VSS as quiescing method).One of these servers is a Microsft Exchange Server, and I'm using Veritas Backup Exec 16 to backup the Exchange...
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SRM/vsphereReplication
Hello All, Please can someone help me with how to failover over a single virtual machine in a protection group? I have about 10 vm's the protection group but i need to failover just one VM.
View ArticleHow does SRM protects sensitive info from SRM server to protected VM/host in...
Hi All,This question is related to the use of recovery plan in SRM context. We have a need which require us to execute a post power on script in VM which gets recovered as a part of recovery plan...
View ArticleVMware SRM 6.1 - No VM's showing in Recovery Plan
We created a new Storage Policy based Protection Group. The group contains 6 VM's with no errors. We have triple checked correct replication datastore's are tagged, linked to storage policy, and VM's...
View ArticleSRM:communication between the protected site VM/host to recovery site vCenter
Hi All,This question is related to communication between the protected site VM/host to recovery site vCenter. As we know in SRM environment while creating the recovery plan it's mandatory to pair site...
View ArticleMoving VMs between protection groups
I have a recovery plan that includes VMs from multiple protection groups and defines their startup order. Each protection group has its own datastore. So when I storage vmotion a VM between...
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SRM configuration with 2 Vcenter
Hello, May i have an advice about SRM configuration with 2 Vcenter Server configured without external plateform Service on SITE1??? Thanks.!!
View ArticleSRM Datastore Groups
How does an SRM "datastore group" get created? Is it configurable?I have two datastores that I want to be part of one protection group. Do I manually place these datastores in a "datastore group" and...
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srm test
I ran the test on srm. Everything was normal then I make cleanup recovery. On the dr side, the virtual machines are still standing . Is it normal to see recovery vms ( 2012test1 and 2012test2 ) ?
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No vCenter listed on Reconfigure Pair
I updated the certificate at on of the paired sites. Now when I go into SRM to Reconfigure Pairing, there is no vCenter listed after selecting the PSC. This happens whether I try the operation from the...
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VMware SRM 6.1
Dears, I am deploying VMware SRM 6.1 in the HQ and DR. I am done with the installation and the SQL. Now when i try to make the pairing between the sites, the task stuck in the vcenter tasks at 100% and...
View ArticleHow can i upgrade SRM 6.0 licence to SRM 6.5 license.
I can add SRM 6.0 license using Vpshere Web Client 6.5. But when I try to create Protection group, SRM throws Error message "There are not enough Licenses Installed to perform the operation". KB...
View ArticleConsuming SRM WSDL using SoapUI
Hi there, I'm consuming SRM wsdl using SoapUI. I want to unprotect some vms using UnprotectVms call but when I call this api, I got 'Object has deleted or has not completely created' in response....
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RecoveryPlanPause or RecoveryPlanAnswerPrompt in SRM 5.8 API ?
EveryoneI'm trying to script a full DR plan via API and I almost have it all, except one thing. I have added a prompt after 3 VMs have come up because I need to start a bunch ofother stuff before the...
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