SRM inventory mappings
What will happen to PROD VMs during failover/recovery if they were moved from the configured inventory mappings?example: used a different network or storage or cluster
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NetApp SVM and Protection Groups
Hi. I have a customer that has created a single NetApp SVM (storage virtual machine) that houses all of their Primary Site datastores (i.e. multiple NetApp volumes/luns that map to multiple...
View Articlerun disaster recovery site active-active
dear all Hi i have a question about SRM is this feature for active - active datacenter ? for example i have a datacenter with this ip range : 10.0.0.xif run srm my disaster recovery site has same ip...
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Site Recovery Manager Pairing 6.1.1
Anyone seen this before when pairing site 1 to site 2, the other way around is fine no error, time is all in synch between servers and adminstrator@vsphere.local credentials work fine.
View ArticleProblem with reprotecting VMs
Hello all, I am currently working on an implementation of SRM.My setup consists of Vmware SRM server build 3037005, vCenter 6.0, ESXi 6.0.0 and IBM Storwize Family Storage Replication Adapter. Pretty...
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Operation Timed Out during writing snapshot
what could be the cause of this and its work around?
View ArticleImpact of these failures in SRM
Can anyone share what will be the impact of these failures in SRM? Can the machine replication continue to run or not? Can the machine be recovered or not? in any of these failures.1. vCenter Failure...
View ArticleUnable to Configure Protection
Hello GuysI have been trying to protect vm's on SRM. But everytime I try to do it, it fails with error : com.vmware.vcDr.dr.fault.InsufficientLicensesFault.summaryIt says : There are not enough...
View ArticleRouting tables updates
If in recovery site routing tables needs to be updated at router then can it be done in automated manner once the machines get recoverd at recovery site?
View ArticleSingle Workload and multiple recovery sites
Can single workload have multiple recovery sites?
View ArticleSRM Mapping Information is not getting removed completely even after deleting...
today i created srm resource pool mapping with keeping reverse mapping enabled and then i deleted it and created it again without reverse mapping but still it was showing reverse mapping = yes. Just...
View ArticleAuto-mapping for VMware NSX® universal wires is only supported with storage...
Why it is only supported with SPPG?
View ArticleSRM data integrity
In an SRM failover, is it really normal that the data is not the same with the PROD VM?Replication medium is host based replication and the replication status is okay. The issue here is even in during...
View ArticleVR Bandwidth requirement Calculation (Where is Latency Consideration?)
I saw the KB Calculating Bandwidth Requirements for vSphere Replication (2037268) | VMware KB on bandwidth requirement calculation as well as this in one of VMware DocYou calculate vSphere Replication...
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SRM failover
Scenario: Recovery Plan 1: APP1, DB1, WEB1Recovery Plan 2: APP2, DB2, WEB2 SRM can do datacenter migration/disaster avoidance: 1. If failover is initiated, PROD VMs do a last replication, power down...
View ArticleSRM works randomly, errors out with 2 different errors most of the time
We are in the midst of configuring SRM 4.1.2. We have a very basic configuration: Protected Site:3 x Dell R710ESXi 4.1u1 / vSpehere 4.1u1 (VC Server)Dual channel QLogic FC HBA multipathed via 2 FC...
View ArticleTest failover fails with Error
HelloI configured SRM and performed Test failover. But it failed with following errorError - Failed to create snapshots of replica devices. Failed to create snapshot of replica device 300. SRA command...
View ArticleIP Customization Mandatory to set up SRM?
HelloIs IP Customization mandatory while setting up SRM? Or SRM automates this process?
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Can SRM failover vCenter
Hi, Have been reading up a lot on vcenter but unable to find the answer to this Can SRM failover the vcenter server from site A to site B?
View ArticleSRM and SRA
In the PROD site, there is an EMC SAN storage and on the DR site, there is also a corresponding DR EMC SAN storage.During SRA configuration on both sites, I assume that the EMC storage in the DR site...
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