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Failback without bringing back changes
Hi. I know the standard workflow of a failover/failback: - Failover to Recovery Site- Reprotect (reverse replication to original Protected Site)- Failback (to original Protected Site)- Reprotect...
View ArticleFail Over with no Access to Production Site - Failback without bringing back...
i have a producrion site and DR L2 ( same ip address when Fail Over).i need to do a real test, this way.1 disconnect the Two Prod And DR2 bring up the DR when No change In The Production Site ( All Is...
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Planning on upgrading from SRM 5.5 to 6.0 u2
Assistance required for simple high level plan for the above, assuming all other parts are done ie ESXi is it a simple 1 step upgrade for do I hav eto go to 6.0, 6.1 etc etc
View ArticleSPPG in SRM 6.1
In SRM 6.1 when SPPG is used then what will happen if failback is triggered but before failback in Old recovery site few VM were created with the same policy that was the part of protection group. As...
View ArticleSRM with EMC VMAX
Can someone here provide some documents on the recommended configuration of VMware for EMC to make it work for SRM?I am talking about some used cases so I can compare this.Most of the configuration is...
View ArticlevSphere Replication to replicate a SQL Cluster?
Hi, Does anyone know if there are any issues when using vSphere Replication to replicate a SQL cluster as part of an SRM solution for DR? Thanks in advance for your help!
View Articlereplication direction presented wrong
Hello all, Making good progress in my SRM environment.Proof of concept failovers are working flawlessly, gone back and forth several times without any issues. I did notice one thing that bothers...
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Cannot remove a deleted VM from protection group
Hello, I'm having trouble removing a VM from a SRM protection group. The VM has been deleted before removing from the protection group. The error is: Invalid: The VM is no longer protectedThis VM is...
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Question about reprotecting VM and data that gets replicated back
Hello,After completing a failover of, say, a 40GB virtual machine from site A to site B, if we choose to click on the reprotect button to reverse the replication back from site B to A, does SRM...
View ArticleWhich PSC should the recovery site SRM node point to
Setup is as follows:vSphere 61 vcenter server (vcenter01) and 1 PSC (PSC01) at protected site1 vcenter server (vcenter02) and 1 PSC (PSC02) at recovery siteEach vcenter server is pointed at its own...
View ArticleWhat should I do if I lose the Network Connection between the two Sites?
I have a customer who asked me what happens when his MPLS goes down. I told him that he would have the most recent replication that has happened is what he would have to work with. since he will be...
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LUNs not detected in SRM
When I am trying to create protection groups, when I try to associate the LUNs to be protected; it is not found in the SRM.But the LUNs is perfectly visible via vsphere or web client. Storage is...
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SRM Site Pairing Issue
While Site Pairing everything goes correct...connection to remote vcenter server, certificate validation, connection to remote srm server, certification valiidation and reciprocity 9everything goes...
View ArticleCreate InventoryMapping using SRM API
I am using SRM 5.8, wanted to use new API feature to create folder, network mapping using powercli.$web01 = New-WebServiceProxy("http://" + $srmServerAddr + ":9085/srm.wsdl") -Namespace SRM01 $srm01 =...
View ArticleUpgrade of SRM to 6.1 in a side by side config
Hi I have a customer who has vSphere 5.5 (inc vCentre) and SRM 5.8. We are looking to upgrade to 6 u2 (not 6.5 at this point as a couple of the hosts do support it). The preference is to install a new...
View ArticleNeed to shutdown an ESXi host at recovery site
Hello,Using SRM 5.8, I have 3 esxi servers on the recovery site. One of them needs to be placed in maintenance mode and possibly shutdown for hardware diagnostics. Is there a particular process I...
View ArticleCan you recover certain discs on a VM using SRM ?
Hi, Is it possible to recover a VM using SRM ( array based replication ) that has discs spread out on multiple luns, and only recover 4 out of 5 discs( luns ) ? Assuming the 4 luns the desired discs...
View ArticleSRM 5.8 AddNetworkMapping API
Hi all,Did someone try to invoke the inventory mappings API? Any example? I can't automate such process (add mappings in general). Any help is appreciated. Thanks!Giulio
View ArticleFound some error in SRM server log
Hi, I am using vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 Update 1 with VMware-srm-6.1.0-3037005.I found some error in SRM server log.Dose anyone know how to solve this issue? 2016-11-22T16:08:50.734+08:00 [00248...
View ArticleSRM 4.8 Protection groups error
i am trying to create protection groups but i get the following error: "" Unable to find a placeholder datastore for the host/cluster , Any placeholder datastores registered with the SRM server that...
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