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Table Of Contents
- Administration Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Overview of Site Recovery Manager
- System Requirements
- Installing or Updating Site Recovery Manager
- Managing SRM
- Protected Site Configuration
- Recovery Site Configuration
- Failback
- Alerting and Monitoring
- Protected and Recovery Site Changes
- Preinstallation Checklist
- Failback Checklist
- Use the srm-config command to repair an SRM server connection
- Avoiding Replication of Paging Files and Other Transient Data
- Glossary
- Index
Site Recovery Manager Administration Guide
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12 ClickNext.
13 Selecttherecoverypriorityfromthedrop‐downmenuandclickNext.
High–Startsthevirtualmachineinserialorder.
Normalandlow–Startsthevirtualmachineinparallelwithothervirtual
machinesonthisESXhost.
14 ClickNext.
Adduser‐definedmessagesandcommandsstepstobeperformedbeforethis
virtualmachineispoweredon.Theseuser‐designedmessagesandcommandscan
beremovedandreordered(see“A d d Message
andCommandSteps”onpage 52).
15 ClickFinish.
Add Message and Command Steps
Youcanaddmessagesorcommandstoyourrecoveryplanoneithertheprotectedor
therecoverysiteasyouconfigurevirtualmachineproperties.Youcanaddmessageor
commandstepsbeforeorafteryoupoweron.
Messagestepsdisplayinformationintextformat.Whenarecoveryplanisrunningand
encountersamessagestep,therecoverypausesuntilyouacknowledgethetextofthe
message.Theplanthencontinuestorun.
Commandstepsarelivescriptsthatyoucaninsertintherecoveryplanalongwiththe
defaultstepsthatSiteRecoveryManagerprovides.Astherecoveryplanisrunningand
encountersacommandstep,thescriptruns.
Toaddmessageandcommandsteps,thefollowingconditionsmustbeinplace:
TheVIClientmustbeconnectedtoeithertheprotectedorrecoverysite.
TheroleofRecoveryVirtualMachineAdministratorroleorRecoveryPlans
Administrator.
Run Batch Files or Commands
TorunaWindowsbatchfileorcommand,starttheWindowscommandshellusingits
fullpath.Forexample,torunascriptlocatedinc:\alarmscript.bat,usethe
followingcommandline:
c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /c c:\alarmscript.bat