System information

Advanced Site Recovery Manager
Configuration 10
The Site Recovery Manager default configuration enables some simple recovery scenarios. Advanced users
can customize Site Recovery Manager to support a broader range of site recovery requirements.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Reconfigure Site Recovery Manager Settings,” on page 101
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“Modify Settings to Run Large Site Recovery Manager Environments,” on page 111
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“Modify Settings for Long-Running Tasks,” on page 114
Reconfigure Site Recovery Manager Settings
Using the Advanced Settings, you can view or change many custom settings for the Site Recovery Manager
service. Advanced Settings provide a way for a user with adequate privileges to change default values that
affect the operation of various Site Recovery Manager features.
IMPORTANT During an upgrade, Site Recovery Manager does not retain any advanced settings that you
configured in the previous installation. This is by design. Due to changes in default values or improvements
in performance, advanced settings that you set in a previous version of Site Recovery Manager might not be
required by or compatible with the new version. Similarly, if you uninstall then reinstall the same version of
Site Recovery Manager, reusing the database from the previous installation, advanced settings are not
retained.
Change Site Recovery Manager History Report Collection Setting
Site Recovery Manager history reports are useful to diagnose Site Recovery Manager Server behavior before
and after a failure. You can change the number of history reports to export.
When you run failover, test, cleanup, and reprotect operations with site A as the protected site and site B as
recovery site, you can export history reports for these operations when you collect a support bundle for Site
B, the recovery site. The most recent history is fetched directly from the Site Recovery Manager database.
After reprotect occurs, site A is the new recovery site and site B is the protected site. When you run failover,
test, cleanup, and reprotect operations, you can export history reports when you collect a support bundle for
site A, the recovery site.
Prerequisites
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Verify that you have Administrator credentials.
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Site Recovery Manager must be connected to a Site Recovery Manager database that you can access
with valid database credentials.
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