System information

Syntax of the DR IP Customizer Tool

The DR IP Customizer tool includes options that you can use to gather networking information about the

virtual machines that Site Recovery Manager protects. You can also use the options to apply customizations

to virtual machines when they start up on the recovery site.

NOTE This release of Site Recovery Manager allows you to define subnet-level IP mapping rules to

customize IP settings on virtual machines, as well as by using the DR IP Customizer tool. You can use

subnet-level IP mapping rules in combination with DR IP Customizer. For information about how you can

use subnet-level IP mapping rules and DR IP Customizer together, see “Customizing IP Properties for

Multiple Virtual Machines,” on page 67.

You find the dr-ip-customizer.exe executable file in C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vCenter Site

Recovery Manager\bin on the Site Recovery Manager Server host machine. When you run dr-ip-

customizer.exe, you specify different options depending on whether you are generating or applying a

comma-separated value (CSV) file.

dr-ip-customizer.exe

--cfg SRM Server configuration XML

--cmd apply/drop/generate

[--csv Name of existing CSV File]

[--out Name of new CSV file to generate]

[--vc vCenter Server address]

[--ignore-thumbprint]

[--extra-dns-columns]

[--verbose]

You can run the DR IP Customizer tool on either the protected site or on the recovery site. Virtual machine

IDs for protected virtual machines are different at each site, so whichever site you use when you run the DR

IP Customizer tool to generate the CSV file, you must use the same site when you run DR IP Customizer

again to apply the settings.

Some of the options that the DR IP Customizer tool provides are mandatory, others are optional.

Table 6‑1. DR IP Customizer Options

Option Description Mandatory

-h [ --help ]

Displays usage information about

dr-ip-customizer.exe.

--cfg arg

Path to the XML configuration file of

the Site Recovery Manager Server,

vmware-dr.xml file.

Yes

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