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Chapter 5 Protected Site Configuration
To generate the CSV file
1 ChangedirectorytoC:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Site Recovery
Manager\bin.
2Runthefollowingcommand:
C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Site Recovery Manager\bin>dr-ip-customizer.exe
-cfg ..\config\vmware-dr.xml -csv c:\tmp\example.csv -cmd generate
InanSRMrecoveryplanconfigurationthatdefinesthreeplaceholdervirtualmachines,
thegeneratedfilelookslikethis:
VM ID,VM Name,Adapter ID,MAC Address,DNS Domain,Net BIOS,Primary
WINS,Secondary WINS,IP Address,Subnet Mask,Gateway(s),DNS Server(s), DNS
Suffix(es)
shdw3,srm3,0,,,,,,,,,,
shdw2,srm2,0,,,,,,,,,,
shdw1,srm1,0,,,,,,,,,,
Thefileconsistsofaheaderrowthatdefinesthemeaningofeachcolumn,andasingle
rowforeachplaceholdervirtualmachinefoundintherecoveryplan.Theonlycolumns
populatedwithvaluesare:
 VMID(theIDfortheplaceholdervirtualmachine)
 VMName(thehostnameoftheplaceholdervirtualmachine)
 AdapterID(always0,whichdesignatesglobalIPsettings,notspecifictoany
adapter)
Editing the CSV file to customize IP properties
ThetableinExample 5‐1showstheresultofopeningtheoutputofdr-ip-customizer
withaspreadsheetprogramandcreatingadditionalrowsthatdefinenetworksettings
forplaceholdervirtualmachinesintherecoveryplan.
Example 5-1.
VM ID
VM
Name
Adapter
ID MAC Address
DNS
Domain NetBIOS
Primary
WINS
Secon-
dary WINS IP Address
Subnet
Mask Gateway(s)
DNS
Server(s)
DNS
Suffix(es)
shdw1 srm1 0 10.10.10.1 example.com
shdw1 1 00-1f-3a-38-29-9cexample.com dhcp
shdw2 srm2 0
shdw2 1 00-1f-3a-38-29-9cexample.com 10.10.10.10 10.13.99.5 255.255.0.0 10.10.10.100 10.10.10.1
shdw2 1 10.10.10.2
shdw3 srm3 0