unable to migrate SRM server to different datastore
Our SRM server is a VM. I need to move the SRM VM to a different datastore, but when I do a migrate, it lets me pick the datastore, but then I get an error"this method disabled by 'moref=vm-186" Do I...
View ArticleSRM Recovery Between 2 different processor family's
I am trying to find out if it's ok to run SRM between 2 different processor family's and different EVC settings between the clusters. I believe that the systems would potentially require an extra...
View ArticleTried to set up swap disk for cluster (to reduce data being replicated for...
In an attempt to cut down on amount of data that is being replicated via NetApp snapmirror, I configured the cluster to use a separate swap disk. Then I rebooted one of the vms. But I don't know how to...
View ArticleIP Address Ping Check after Failover
Hi, We like the automation capabilities that SRM gives us for DR and it works really well but we would like to try and perform some form of ping test on each of the recovered virtual machines and email...
View ArticleSRM 5.1 & NetApp - VM with RDM and MSCS
Hello,I'm implementing SRM 5.1 with NetApp (With SnapMirror) and I have several questions:- Replication of volumes through the array manager, run correctly- How do the replication of virtual machines...
View ArticleRecover vm with two different sra's?
Using vsphere & srm 5.0.1 Would it be possible to protect/recover a virtual server using two different sra’s? Scenario would be the OS on a vmfs data store would be protected using IBM SVC SRA....
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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 ArticleBest practices regarding replication of protected site vsphere database to...
All, The question at hand is do we failover a production sql server that requires protection through SRM 5.1, but houses the current protected site vsphere database. Will we have issues if the sql...
View ArticleSRA FOR DS8100 SRM 5.X
Hello all.We are in very urgent situation since the release of SRM 5.0 because there was no SRA for the IBM DS8000 series Recently VMware announced SRA availability for the DS8000 using microcode ver....
View ArticleExam for Vmware SRM
i want to know whether there is an exam for VMware site recovery manager? Something like VCP-DV, VCP-DT etc...and also please tell me the exam code and the exam fee....
View ArticleEMC SRDF adapter
Hi all I am attempting to install the pluggins for SRM so I can start using SRM and testing it before putting it into production. Our EMC colleague gave me 3 pluggins to install. These two had to be...
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SRM & VSPHERE REPLICATION REGISTRATION
Hello all .Help is needed.I have the following environment: Vcenter 5.1.0.Build 947673 vi client 5.1.0 Build 941893 esxi 5.1.0 Build 799733 & SRM 5.1.1 Build 1082082.After deploying VR...
View ArticleEMC RecoverPoint Storage Replication Adapter Version 2.1
Hi everyone, I'm having issues with this SRA version 2.1! The installation went just fine on both sites. Pairing and mapping is functional between two VCenters. I have VCenter 5.1, SRM 5.1 running...
View ArticleSRM 5.1 - bus sharing SCSI drives
Hello, we are planning to set up recovery site on our environment. Because of it's price we are not going to use array-based replication. We have 2 windows server 2008 R2 servers as a cluster of file...
View ArticleSRM 5.1, NetApp SRA 2.0.1, igroup issue
Hi, folks.I am using a 2050 in production and a 2040 in DR, both using iSCSI LUNs. My SRM Recovery test errors at step 8.0 -- mounting the replicated datastores -- with the error "Failed to promote...
View ArticleAutomating enablement of SRM on VMs
Hi All, I have been looking around for a way of automating the enabling of SRM on virtual machines (to be manually initiated on selected VMs or as an option when a VM is deployed via a workflow) but...
View ArticleSRM 5.1, SRA 05.10.3500.0016 and IBM DS3500
Hi, I'm having trouble in configuring SRA with IBM DS3500.When I'm going to add an array manager, the wizard returns an error "Unable to add array manager - SRA command 'discoverArrays' failed. Invalid...
View ArticleError recovery in step 8
hello, I have SRM 5.1, with SRA 2.1 of NetApp. And when I try recovery, stop in step 8 (Change Recovery Site Storage Writable) and show this error: Failed to map the SAN devices on an igroup of ostype...
View ArticleUnable to configure replication after failover
Hi, excuse me for my English and I will try to translate the error message from my vSphere GUI I recently implemented SRM 5.1 and try to configure a DR between 2 sites (A, B). Everything seems working...
View ArticleCan SRM use NetApp VSC quiesced VM backups?
We're using VSC to quiesce VMs and back them up, then initiate a SnapMirror replication. SRM only sees the most recent snapshot, which is the SnapMirror's and not the VSC snapshot. So when we test, VMs...
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