System information

Procedure
1 In the vSphere Web Client, click Site Recovery > Sites, and select a site.
2 On the Manage tab, click Advanced Settings.
3 Click Remote Site Status.
4 Click Edit to modify the settings.
Option Action
Change the number of failed pings
before raising a site down event.
The default value is 5.
Enter a new value in the remoteSiteStatus.panicDelay text box.
Change the number of remote site
status checks (pings) to try before
declaring the check a failure. The
default value is 2.
Enter a new value in the remoteSiteStatus.pingFailedDelay text box.
Change the interval at which
Site Recovery Manager checks
whether the
Site Recovery Manager Server at
the remote site is available. The
default value is 300 seconds.
Enter a new value in the remoteSiteStatus.pingInterval text box. If you
specify a value for remoteSiteStatus.pingInterval that is less than the
configured value for connections.drPingInterval,
Site Recovery Manager resets the configured value. You can edit the
connections.drPingInterval value in the vmware-dr.xml file. If the
value specified for the remoteSiteStatus.pingInterval is out of range, an
error message appears: Setting for remoteSiteStatus.pingInterval
is out of permitted range.
5 Click OK to save your changes.
Change the Timeout for the Creation of Placeholder Virtual Machines
You can adjust replication settings to modify how long Site Recovery Manager waits for the creation of
virtual machine placeholders to finish.
Procedure
1 In the vSphere Web Client, click Site Recovery > Sites, and select a site.
2 On the Manage tab, click Advanced Settings.
3 Click Replication.
4 Click Edit to change the replication.placeholderVmCreationTimeout setting to modify the number of
seconds to wait when creating a placeholder virtual machine.
The default value is 300.
5 Click OK to save your changes.
Change Storage Settings
You can adjust the storage settings to modify how Site Recovery Manager and vCenter Server communicate
with the storage replication adapter (SRA).
Procedure
1 In the vSphere Web Client, click Site Recovery > Sites, and select a site.
2 On the Manage tab, click Advanced Settings.
3 Click Storage.
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