SRM 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,...
View ArticleSRM 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/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 to get the vCenter details of recovery site of SRM from the post power on...
Hi ALl,I have below question with respect to VMware SRM. As part of disaster recovery plan when the virtual machine is powered on at the recovery site.From the virtual machine, we are planning to get...
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 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 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...
View ArticleSRM 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 ArticleProtection Groups and Storage vMotion
I'm using array based replication and need to balance some datastores. As I move virtual machines to different datastores, how do I minimize the work to keep the VMs in their current protection...
View ArticleSRM Stencils
Can someone refer me to some visio stencils for protection groups and recovery plans? I see some sites with SRM stencils in general but none of them include something for protection groups or recovery...
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...
View Articlesrm 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 ) ?
View ArticleSRM 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...
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 ArticleVMware 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 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....
View ArticleRecoveryPlanPause 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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SRM PSC Configuration change during Embedded to External PSC migration
I'm in the process of breaking out Embedded PSCs to External PSCs. I have a question regarding the SRM configuration. At present the VC is pointing to it's Embedded PSC, SRM is pointing to the vCenter...
View ArticlePlaceholder VM location
What is the best practice for "placing" placeholder VMs? Should they be on the same array I am recovering to at the recovery site? Should they be on local disk? Is there a good discussion that...
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SRM error: vmx cannot be found on recovered datastore?
Hi folks, We have been performing successful SRM tests for a while using vSphere 5.5 and SRM 5.8 and using Array based replication with Nimble storage. We want to add two new VMs to this recovery plan...
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