SRM 5.1.1 Installation
After trying all of the user accounts I can think of under the sun, I wasn't able to pass the step where I need to authenticate with the virtual center where SRM will be managed. Are there any...
View ArticleVM SRM and NetApp SnapManager - Thoughts.
Our organisation is presently looking at solutions around DR. As we have a substantial VM estate and back-end NetApp SAN, these seem to fit very nicely. As we will look to replicate these out to out DR...
View ArticleError - Unable to find a viable replica for VR replication group 'server1'.
Hi, I have seeded server1 and and enabled vSphere replication for this VM.When I try to run recovery plan I get error Error - Unable to find a viable replica for VR replication group 'server1'. All...
View ArticleUsing the same network for recovery and test
Hi Is it actually possible to use the same network for recovery and test? I get an error when I try it. I am on a vDS and works fine when I select different DV port group or use auto but not when the...
View ArticleMount VMFS Volume errors during test run
We have two physical data centers, each with it's own VCenter installation and an EMC VNX storage array. We are running VSphere 5.1 and are starting to work with SRM. The SRM install at each site has...
View Articlehow to remove cleanup massage in tasks
Hi all, Yesterday I was testing a failover and a subsequent clean up of a VM, in recoverpoint integrated SRM setup. I can see the cleanup has frozen at 70%. Today I failed over and cleaned the same...
View ArticleError when Failover Testing with HP P9500
Hi All,Currently, we are trying to configure vCenter Site Recovery Manager with Array based replication in one of our customer sites. We are using HP P9500 array appliance in both sites (DC & DRC)....
View ArticleWhat are the SRM 5.1.1 server Pre-requsite?
Hello, I am looking for SRM 5.1.1 to be installed in Windows 2012 with Sql server 2012 but i am not able to find any information in compatibility matrix or release notes about support for it. Can you...
View ArticleChange replication direction using vSphere replication in SRM
Hi guys Please if you could assist, we running our SRM environment typically on SAN based replication and have a few VM's we would like to start protecting (within SRM and not the replication...
View ArticleWhat are the best Practices Cosideration to Build DR.
Hello, I am looking for the best practices which should be taken in consideration while designing DR in two site mode and looking for Array-based Replication. what and how should the DB server...
View ArticleCannot complete operation because VMware Tools is not running in this virtual...
Hi All, We are seeing lot of issues related to VMware tools when we execute SRM recovery plan. We use to get lot of VMware tools time errors so we change time out value to 15 min from default 5 min....
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IBM V7000 & SRM 5.0 - Failed to create snapshots of replica devices
Hi All I wonder if anyone can help. We have 2 IBM Storwize V7000's - 1 at the Protected Site and 1 at the Recovery Site. We have a test Volume that is GlobalMirror 'repliacted' to the DR side - showing...
View ArticleDifference between priorities and dependencies
Hi, I have four VMs that depend on services of thee other VMs, all are on one datastore and included in one recovery plan. Should I solve this with priorities or dependencies? What's the difference in...
View Article"Prepare Protected Site VM's for migration stage"
Hi All We have SRM 5.0 protecting our VM's with EMC VNX array based replication in Asynchronous mode. To prove our DR capabilities we need to do a full failover (planned option) and run machines live...
View ArticleEMC RecoverPoint Storage Replication adapter with VMAX 10 K version 2.1 is...
Dear, Any one has the link of the version 2.1 for EMC RecoverPoint Storage Replication adapter with VMAX 10 K as I couldn't got it and version 2.2 is not compatible Waiting urgent help
View ArticleSRM recovery site removed uncleanly. SRM from protected site uninstalled....
Hi,We performed some tested with SRM, part of which was to isolated the recovery site and perform a recovery of VM's.Because this was just a test, when we were done we decommissioned the recovery site...
View ArticleUnable to add array manager, SRA command 'discoverArrays' failed. SRM 5.5
Setting up SRM 5.5 using RecoverPoint new install and setup. I have downloaded and installed the recommended SRA Adapter in my SRM server, which is...
View ArticleSRM 5.5 -The remote server returned an error: (503) Server Unavailable ,...
Design: 2 x vCenter VMs version 5.5 on W2k12. Fresh Installations. Linked and using same SSO key (default installation) 2 x SRM VMs version 5.5 fresh installation 20+ vSphere 5.5 hosts with DR/HA...
View ArticlevSphere HA completed a virtual machine failover on SRM test
Hi there, When I run a test plan I occasionally see an error stating that vSphere HA completed a virtual machine failover.The events show me a warning stating not enough resources are available to...
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