VMWare SRM with RecoverPoint EX to replicate two arrays to a single one
We have two storage arrays on which we need to protect VMs each with its own RecoverPoint pair which replicate to a single Array in our recovery site. This environment was working correctly when we had...
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VMware SRM 5.5 offsite backup
Hi, We have a customer who currently has VMware 5.0 in combination with SRM 5.But this customer now want to have an offsite backup.He want to store the data offsite due to regulations of the local...
View ArticleNetwork Level configurations for SRM
Hi there, i am new to SRM and this may be noob question. i have few points to clarify about fail-over of sites. i have two sites which connected through site to site VPN and two VCenters installed in...
View ArticleAre long distance vmotion, and cross-vcenter vmotion incompatible, with SRM?
We are planning our 5.5 to 6.0 upgrades. Two sites have SRM involved. We would like to be able to deploy in such a way as to make long distance and cross-vCenter vMotion possible in the future. However...
View ArticleDifficulty testing SRM upgrade 5.0.3 / vsphere 5 U3 to SRM 6.1 / vsphere 6 U2
Hello, I am testing a vSphere upgrade in a test network. Basically I restored, using Veeam a DC, Internal CA and our vCenter windows VM's into their own test network, internet access provided by proxy...
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SRM Upgrade
Hi Folks, we are running vSphere/SRM 5.5.x and planning to upgrade infra to 6.0 with latest update. As SRM doesn't direct upgrade to 6.1 from 5.x. We are planning to upgrade vCenter 5.x to 6.0 Update 2...
View ArticleMove SRM to new server and vCenter
I currently have SRM 5.5.1.8569 installed on the same server that I have vCenter 5.5 on. Is it possible to move SRM to a new server and also move vCenter to version 6 and an appliance while keeping my...
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How to get SrmFolder from MoRef using PowerShell & SRM API
I'm trying to list my Protection Groups which are nested in folders. I can get the parent folder MoRef easily enough: $srmapi.Protection.ListProtectionGroups()[0].GetParentFolder().MoRef But how can I...
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srm motinor
we are using srm . is there any monitor tool ? like send mail or error about or etc...
View ArticleSRM 5.8 reprotect failed : SRM service shutdown.
Hi All, At customer which has VMware 5.5 and SRM 5.8.using NETAPP SRA 2.1P1 Cluster ONTAP want to use for DR. After installation when we run recovery plan VM failover to recovery site. but when we run...
View ArticleUse an Older Array SNAP to recover
Hello Everyone, I was wondering if there's a way to use a previous SAN snap at the DR site to recover, lets say I have a 1PM 2PM and 3PM snaps, so if DR event happens at 3:30 PM, when I recover with...
View ArticleSRM 5.5 -> Ip customization
Hello, is there an way to customize a NIC with multiples IPs?for example, in linux I have eth0 and eth0:0. I did a test and the default customization erase my eth0:0 configuration when I ran a test...
View ArticleSRM 6.1 Recovery for Stretched storage executes Prepare storage step twice
Hi This query is regarding SRM 6.1 recovery workflow (failover) for stretched storage using SRA. (Policy based replication using Storage array adapter) Failover Workflow report of SRM indicates issuing...
View ArticleSRM Failback Replication
Can someone please answer this quick question.Using vSphere Replication and SRMWhen doing a failback with SRM is there a way to get around doing a full resync back? Can we do a Failover to DR then...
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support of SRA in SRM Air
Does SRM Air (part of vcloud Air) supports SRA (Array based replication now) ?
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Site Recovery Manager
If I will be using Site Recovery Manager, Do I need to configure distributed switch on the DR site if the VMs from the production site are already using distributed switch.If the vCenter Server and the...
View Articlesrm desing
we are using array based with hp 3par . now i check the Pair Site but is not work i think. this is prodaction site. what is problem ?
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srm vcenter version
prodaction vcenter 5.5 U2 and datacenter vcenter 5.5 U2 and srm is working. now i want to upgrade prodaction vcenter 5.5u2 to 5.5u3. i must upgrade datacenter vcenter ? if 2 vcenter's working different...
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Primary Datacenter with multi clusters to a single recovery cluster. Is it...
Hi Gurus, I want to recover single site with multi clusters having one vcenter to a recovery site which is having one cluster. Is that possible? Best regards,Rushdi
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...
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