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19 Dell EMC SC Series: VMware Site Recovery Manager Best Practices | 2007-M-BP-V

The value can also be configured per cluster by editing the srmMaxBootShutdownOps in vSphere

DRS Advanced Options. This value will override a value specified in the vmare-dr.xml file.

• defaultMaxBootAndShutdownOpsPerHost – Default: off

This option specifies the maximum number of concurrent power-on operations performed by SRM at

the host object level. Enable by specifying a numerical value (such as 4) by modifying the vmware-

dr.xml file. The option can be added anywhere in the <config> section and the Site Recovery

Manager Server service should be restarted after making a change.

<defaultMaxBootAndShutdownOpsPerHost>4

</defaultMaxBootAndShutdownOpsPerHost>

</config>

The vmware-dr.xml file is located in the configuration folder on the SRM server. The specific location varies

depending on the operating system and SRM version.

Windows:

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager\config\vmware-dr.xml

Virtual Appliance:

/opt/vmware/srm/conf/vmware-dr.xml

4.8 Modifying settings for SRM 8.2 and stretched storage

Internal testing conducted by Dell Technologies revealed a minor change starting with VMware Site Recovery

Manager version 8.2. For SRM planned failover to work smoothly with Live Volume stretched storage, the

vmware-dr.xml file on each SRM server must be modified followed by a recycle of the VMware vCenter Site

Recovery Manager Server service.

<forcePrepareAndReverseReplicationForNoopDevices>true</forcePrepa

reAndReverseReplicationForNoopDevices>