SRM and per VM recovery
Hello Is it possible for a per VM recovery from SRM without disrupting the other VMs in the Protection Group? Planned method: edit recovery plan and select Do Not Power On for the other VMs in the...
View ArticleVNX SRA for SRM 6.1
Although this isn't the EMC forum, does anyone know when we can expect a supported EMC VNX SRA for SRM 6.1?The VMware website only lists SRA's for EMC VPLEX and RecoverPoint.
View ArticleAvoid moving VM's for datastores holding SRM and non-SRM virtual machines
Our customer has datastores which have both virtual machines which need to be protected by SRM and vm's which do not require SRM protection. Is there a way to protect those VM's without the need to...
View ArticleSRM+SQL+3rd party replication and quiescing the DB
Gentlemen What can SRM customers to ensure that a SQL VM running on (and replicated by) 3rd party storage is application-consistent? Does the HP SRA have code that can invoke quiescing within the VM?...
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VMware SRM 6.1 and IBM Storwize SRA 3.1 Issues
hello , We have sites, all critical VM's protected with VMware Srm + IBM SVC. During the setup phase we did the fail-over and fail-back tests and everything works smooth. Recently we had a storage...
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SRM Test Recovery plan issue
Hello,we have two sites with ESXi hosts 5.5 and vCenter 6 and SRM 6 installed and configured on both the sites. we are using IBM Storwize v7000 storage on both the sites. I have configured SRM with...
View ArticleSRM with array based replication - how to achieve better than crash consistency?
So I believe that when using SRM with vSphere replication, that when VMs are replicated, VMware tools first does a VSS quiesce on the VM. We can see this here:...
View ArticleCan SRM test failovers be performed if WAN connection is taken offline...
I am trying to figure out the options for testing SRM. I know that I can perform a test failover (to test bubble network) when the WAN is up and both SRM instances can talk to eachother. What if I...
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Plan Recovery Issue
Hello, With reference to my previous post ;https://communities.vmware.com/message/2556721#2556721the Test Recovery went successfully but Plan Recovery generating some issues. The Recovery plan is...
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No VRM Server registered with vCenter Server for site "Live"
I have SRM 6.1 and vSphere replication 6.1 installed on both sites.The VSRs are connected to vCenter server.I'm getting this error: Unable to create protection group. No VRM Server registered with...
View ArticleSite Recovery Manager - mid size (less than 500 VMs) data centre migration
We are trying to evaluate SRM as AS-IS DC migration product for a mid-size DC migration. Expectation is whatever VMs (less than 500) are present in the source DC all will be moved to a new DC (distance...
View ArticleArray Based Replication Status
Hello, i am using SRM6.1 with vcenter 6 and ESXi host 5.5 u2. I ran the Recovery Plan and it shows Recovery Complete (Snapshot_RP1) but in Array Based Replication when I scan SRA, it shows the status...
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Filtering out non-replicated guests
Hello we are using SRM 5.5 with Recoverpoint as the Protection SRA.You used to be able to filter out guests on the Recoverpoint side that were not going to be part of the protection group.I dont see...
View ArticleSRM 6.1 with VR replication only?
Hello, I haven't worked with SRM for a little while and thought I would throw it together in my lab in order to see the changes. I had done this previously using VR replication, but from what I see it...
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SRM Test Recovery Plan attempting to mount NFS datastore with wrong server IP
testing SRM with EMC VNXe SRA in lab environment and have one replicated NFS datastore. When testing the recovery plan, datastore is snapshoted and promoted with r/w hosts permissions. However, when it...
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SRM pairing failed
Hi, I'm experiencing issue when I'm trying to pair SRM. I'm using SRM 6.0 version. I also tried to telnet port 9086 on both SRM servers and it is not block. Thanks and appreciate your help.
View ArticleSRM AND VMView
Hi, We currently protect our main VM farm using SRM and are looking to extend this to cover to our farm of linked clone View desktops. I've search quite a lot for documentation on how to do this but...
View ArticleSRM & VMware View with Persistent Disk
Hi All, We want to achieve fail over of our VMware Desktop pool to DR site i.e. "Persistent Linked Clone Desktops with Persistent Disks. As per the below VMware white paper the scenario they have...
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Unable to modify/repair/uninstall srm service 6.1
Hello, I made a mistake during the initial installation of SRM on two servers. I was able to successfully uninstall and reinstall it on one server by uninstalling SRM, then uninstalling the embedded...
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....
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