How To Do DR with Fault Tolerance
I have a mission critical application that I set up Fault Tolerance to protect against downtime. As close to zero downtime is very important to us. I also need to create a DR solution. I need to have...
View ArticleCan I have more than one recovery plan for a single consistency group?
Hi all,I have a requirement to be able to have a test environment for DR such that if we run the test recovery plan, the protected VMs will fail into an isolated VLAN, IP addresses and DNS will change...
View ArticleDefault Certificates
I was wondering if somebody could point me to an article or blog post about how to replace the default SRM certificates with ones that are publicly signed such as ones by Microsoft CAI will be...
View ArticleConfigure VR replication after losing a VC
Hi, We've recently had to rebuild our VC server which was also a SRM server. I thought I had got it all done but when I try to configure one of the servers for replication I get the following error...
View ArticleExport Protected vms SRM 5.0 can't be done? Brick wall...
Can't be done? Custom scripts are out there, but we can't get them to work...Come on VMware: at 500 bucks a VM we should have SOMETHING...especially when your customers have to manage several sites...
View ArticleSRM - domain controller authentication
We have a couple clients that have been having authentication issues when trying to perform SRM testing, so we're trying to find a solution for them. From what I've been reading through various online...
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SRM don't see some volumes
Hi guys. Yesterday, a protected virtual machine shows this error Virtual Machine VM-093-DAG-Cas_Owa consist in three volumes:CAS_OWA_SO (main datastore)CAS_OWA_Swap (volume for windows...
View ArticleMigrating SRM SQL database
Hi all, Currently running SRM 5.0.1 Has anyone ever moved their SRM SQL database between sql servers? Is it as simple as updating the DSN and restarting the services? I've struggled to find a...
View ArticleProtection groups in use ( plan contains protection groups that are in use by...
Has anyone seen this error before? vcenter got rebooted during the srm test leaving the recovery plan in inconsistent state. doesn't show me an option to cleanup/force cleanup. below is the warning...
View ArticleSRM Beginnings
I am not confident SRM will do much for our site, but that's what I want to know. We have 2 sites, both Fiber backend storage. The site we are shutting down has HP EVA storage, but some of the VM's...
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....
View ArticleSite Recovery Manager License
Hi , I am planning to protect 35 VMs and I am buying the following 2 packs. I have Protected and Recovery Site VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5 Standard (25 VM Pack)2 Is this ok ?
View ArticleSRM 5.0 --- Encountered other certificate error: 27
I have installed SRM 5.0 and I can't authenticate from one of the sites, but I can from the other site. The following errors are showing in the SRM logs from the site that fails:...
View ArticleCan't connect to SRM
Hello, vCenter server 5, vi client 5 and SRM 5. Each time I try to connect to SRM via the plugins, I always get this error message : An Internal error occured in the vSphere Client. (see attachement)....
View ArticleIntermittent problems performing Cleanup after test
After testing a recovery plan with just two VM's, we sometimes receive the following error during cleanup ............... Error - Failed to delete snapshots of replica devices. SRA command...
View ArticleLUN cound not be attached automatically
Hi all, In the POC phase, I found that during the failover process, the replicated LUN on recovery-site can be seen from vsphere client----storage adapter--- devices, but they are Italic and grey....
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How to remove a VM from SRM protection ?
I had just 1 VM in a recovery plan. I am done with testing and now I want to release it from SRM control-deleted the recovery plan-deleted the protection group.But if I try to anything on the vm now...
View ArticlePhysical Mode RDMs and SRM
I have Physical Mode RDMs on a FalconStor system. The FalconStor agents create Application Consistent snapshots of the Applications. Are these RDMs supported by SRM?
View Articleaccess to SRM statistics
I've been tasked with constructing a dashboard to show that SRM is 'working', in a semi-realtime way, in addition to alerting when something goes wrong. I know that there are alerting capabilities for...
View ArticleDuplicate Array ID error
Hi, When i try to add an Array Manager I get a "Duplicate Array ID 'xxxxxx' " error and I cannot add the array manager. I have uninstalled and reinstalled SRM and still get the same error. Anyone seen...
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