Best location for vcenter VM and placeholder datastores
Hello, I have an SRM installation with 2 sites. The sites are seperated by metro ethernet layer 2 trunk between sites. Site A1 EqualLogic PS61002 ESX servers configured as a clusterThere is a single...
View ArticleRecovery of oracle servers at same time
I have two oracle servers which is used by our in house application.We have SRM 5.1.1 with vSphere replicator enabled for VMs. In order for application to work, during test recovery we need to recover...
View ArticlevSphere Replication Protection Groups query
Does this apply to vSphere Replication Protection Groups? -- "When you create a protection group for array-based replication, you specify array information and then SRM computes the set of virtual...
View ArticleSite Recovery Manager getting disconnected quite often and taking long time...
Namaste to all, Whenever I am connecting to SRM through vSphere client, it is taking long time to connect and I am getting an error message (please see the attached image) and after 4 or 5 attempts I...
View ArticleWhat is happening behind the scenes, when you run a Test Recovery Plan,...
It has always bugging me to know what really happens when you run a Test recovery plan, a Planned Migration and an Unplanned Failover. Appreciate if someone could shed me some light on what does really...
View ArticleSRM 5.1 multi-vendor storage support
Hi all, I wanted to ask whether the SRM 5.1 supports multiple vendor storages to replicate VMs? I've a IBM storage and want to replicate it to Dell storage. If not then what are my options?...
View ArticleSRM Support & Subscription Cost Question -non technically-
Hello there, I have a totally non-technically question concerning Site Recovery Manager. For Budget Planning purposes I need the price of the annual SnS Cost for SRM Enterprise as well as the SnS Cost...
View ArticleUnable to configure VR appliance after deploying it successfully?
Hi Vmware family, Right now I am working on SRM, I deployed VR appliance successfully, but when I am trying to configure it (by clicking on the link in vSphere replication tab), the webpage displays an...
View ArticleSelf-signed certificate installed successfully but with error VR appliance
HI Gurus, I am in the middle of upgrading SRM 5 to SRM 5.1 for vSphere replication. I am trying install and register the VR appliance 5.1. On the configuration tab I have populated the info: and tried...
View ArticleSRM 5.0 - Planned Failover Failed with an Ugly Error
I'm using SRM 5.0 in my environment with ESXi 5.0 U1 as hosts and two vCenter 5.0 U1 as management without Linked Mode in two sites. I prepared my environment to run a Planned Failover for migration. 7...
View ArticleVsphere replication tab shows me an error "storage is not found for datastore...
I am getting the following attached error when trying to configure the replication for a particular vm. this error occurred in a lab environment. I successfully ran a recovery process to the DR site...
View ArticleFailover back VMs without overwriting production data.
Hello Everyone,I am new with SRM and I am planning to run a DR test with for one especific production environment with 9 virtual servers. After the recovery we will have some application functional...
View Articlevsphere rep appliane is not connecting to vcenter getting error .
I have configured SRM 5.1 with Vcenter 5.1. After this I have deployed vsphere replication appliance also but while configuring this appliance I have selected configuration mode as "Configuration using...
View ArticleCluster Microsoft with RDM and SRM 5.1
Hello, Main Site, I have 3 hosts 5.1 update1a with attached 16 RDM’s in 3 cluster MSCS. I’ve applied the KB 1016106 fix, and it worked. When performed with 5.1 SRM failover and failback to rescan the...
View ArticleSRM Customise IP is Broken/Useless
Has anybody else experienced issues with SRM and customising IPs? I have 24 VMs which I recover using SRM. When I'm not using the customise IP option, they recover fine besides manually entering their...
View ArticlevCenter SRM - vSphere Replication Stuck at Initial Full Sync
We installed SRM with vSphere Replication. Our first single VM replication job has been stuck at 0% - Initial Full Sync for over 24 hours. How should I troubleshoot? Thanks,Sang
View ArticleHi i am instaling SRM 5.1 with EMC Recoverpoint
Hi all, I am looking for some help on SRM 5.1 with recoverpoint instalation.I alredy instaled SRM 5.1 on both sites and the two sites paired now. I am confused about the Recoverpoint version works with...
View ArticleRecover Point SRA issue?
I'm running SRM 5.1 with vCenter 5.1 with EMC Recover Point 3.5 SP1.P2. When I do a test failover or a planned failover. It fails because the ESX hosts on the DR side are unable to mount the...
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Different status icon in SRM 5
Hi Guys, I am trying out SRM 5.0 and everything seems fine. However, I noticed that there are some difference in status icon.behind is the vCenter accessed from a remote machine (with flower-like...
View ArticleSRM With The Web Client?
So far I have been using SRM with the fat Windows client and SRM plug-in. (Version 5.1)Has anyone been using SRM with the Web client? I can't seem to find how to (eg) create Protection Groups and test...
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