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Site Recovery Manager Administration Guide
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ThefollowingrulesapplywhenyoumodifyaCSVfilecreatedbythe
dr-ip-customizerutility.
 TheMACAddressfieldisprovidedonlytodifferentiateadaptersonthesame
virtualmachine.Itshouldbeconsideredread‐only.AnymodificationoftheMAC
addresswillinvalidatethevirtualmachineconfigurationwhenthecustomization
isapplied.
 TheVMNamefieldisintendedasareferencefortheusercustomizingthefile.It is
populatedwhentheCSVfileiscreatedbutignoredwhenthemodificationsare
appliedtotherecoveryplan.
 TheonlyfieldsthatyoucanmodifyforarowwhereAdapterIDis0areDNS
Server(s)andDNSSuffix(es).Thesevalues,ifspecified,areinheritedbyallother
adaptersforthatVMID.
 Todefinepropertiesforaspecificadapteronaplaceholdervirtualmachine,create
anewrowthatcontainsthatvirtualmachine’sIDintheVMIDcolumnandthe
adapterID(thevirtualPCIslotinwhichtheadapterisinstalledontheplaceholder
virtualmachine)intheAdapterIDcolumn,
thenspecifyvaluesfortheother
columns.
 Tospecifymorethanonevalueforacolumn,createanadditionalrowforthat
adapterandincludethevalueinthecolumninthatrow.InExample 5‐1,additional
rowsdefineasecondaryDNSserverfortheplaceholdervirtualmachinesshdw2
andshdw3.
 TocreateaplaceholdervirtualmachineasaDHCPclient,enterdhcpinthe
IP Addressfield,asshowninthesecondrowofExample 5‐1.
shdw2 1 00-1a-3f-b8-f3-79 example.com 10.10.10.10 10.13.99.22 255.255.0.0 10.10.10.10010.10.10.1
shdw3 1 10.10.10.2
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