Can we have two Protected site with single recovery site?
I have vCenter running in my HQ site (Protected Site) and i have another vCenter running the DR site (Recovery Site),I made my SR setup in both sites and every thing is working with no issues, We have...
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SRM 5.8 will not display Icon in Web Client
I have a customer who upgraded his vCenter servers at both sites from 5.5U1 to 5.5U2, a requisite for SRM 5.8. After what seems to be a successful SRM installation at both sites, I do NOT see the SRM...
View ArticleMigrating SRM database
I'm preparing to move the database from one of my SRM servers from one database server to a new one. The old database server is running MS SQL server 2005 (32 bit) and the new server is running MS SQL...
View ArticlevCenter SRM Installation and Configuration
Hello, We have installed and configured SRM 5.5.1 in Main site and DR site. In DR site we have two hosts and no shared storage.Each have one vsphere replication appliance deployed and both the sites...
View ArticlePoint SRM at new vCenter
We are planning on moving our hosts to a new vCenter and don't want to do a huge amount with SRM (it is installed on its own VM in the environment and is using an SRA). From having a look around I...
View Article3par in synchronous long distance with Vmware SRM 5.1
Hi,I write because I have a question regarding a 3PAR configuration with VMware SRM.A my customer would like to implement a solution based on three 3par7400c and VMware SRM 5.1.I want to implement a...
View ArticleSRM 6.0 "Site Recovery" not visible in Web Client
I have installed SRM 6.0 successfully. However, I can't see the Site Recovery link in the left frame of the web client. I can see the plug-in listed in the desktop client and I can see it as...
View ArticleDetached storage
This may be the wrong place to ask, but I couldn't think of a better location.After performing a Test (or live recovery) to our warm site, and cleaning up the test, we have storage on our remote...
View ArticleSimple Wait time command between steps
Hello, I need to add a step to simply wait 5 minutes after VM shutdown before SRM moves onto the next step on a failover/recovery. I need to do this because datastores are not unmounting fully before...
View ArticleProcess to change IP of the Replication Applicance
Hello VMware Community, I'm looking for a little guidance here. What would be the recommended process to change the IP of a replication appliance? We find that when we change the IP of the appliance...
View ArticleHow to manually disable SRM replication?
Hello, I need to disable disk replication on a VM to resize disks. The problem is that ESXi and all of its VMs been connected to a different vCenter server which doesn't have SRM installed. However VM...
View ArticleSite Recovery Manager (SRM) v6.0 fails to pair sites - certificate chain not...
I have used the default self-signed certificates throughout the vCenter and SRM setup. When going to pair the vCenters, I get "Server certificate chain not verified". These are 2 new VCSA 6.0 VMs...
View ArticleSRM 5.8 stating "No SRAs have been installed."
I recently updated to SRM 5.8 and it is now stating that "No SRAs have been installed." I checked the compatibility list and the SRA I was using is supported on 5.8 and nothing has changed with it...
View ArticleRunning SRM in a active/active setup
Hi Guys, I am curious about using SRM to protect VMs in 2 data centres that are both active. Data centre A has a bunch of VMs that need to be replicated over to Data Centre B using array replication...
View ArticleSRA command "discovery arrays failed"adv0408 file not found in VMware Site...
Hello All, Can we add multiple array managers to sites in VMware SRM? How to register multiple array managers to one copy group in SRA? When i try to add new array manager(second array manager)...
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error while testing recovery plan
Hi!From docs about SRM 6: from Install guideIf you use vSphere Replication, do not select a placeholder datastore that you already useas the target datastore for replications. from admin guide:The...
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Renting SRM licenses for a once off site flip.
Hi, We are looking into flipping our DR and Production site so we need to flip all the VM's not just the crticital ones that is normally protected by SRM as part of our DR recovery process. Does anyone...
View ArticleSRM
My lub:vCenter 6.0SRM 6.0IBM SRA - IBMSVCSRA_2.3.1.0 for IBM v7000 There is VM on protected site. When I disconnect storage from host and do "run recovery plan(desaster recovery)" SRM start VM on...
View ArticleGet backups from DR site
We are going to implement primary vsphere site and DR site. Primary site replicate to DR site through vmware srm. I want to know can we get backup from DR site using symantec netbackup application....
View ArticlePower on vm's from DR site........ ?
We have primary site and DR site and running SRM on this environment. Once primary site are failure VM's will power on from DR site or not. I want to know it's work like fault tolerance mode?
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