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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
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Chapter 6 Recovery Site Configuration
7Settheresponsetimesforthevirtualmachinesintheplan(responsescannotbe
detectedonvirtualmachinesthatdonothaveVMwareToolsinstalled).
ChangeNetworkSettings:Ifthevirtualmachinedoesnotacquirethe
expectedIPaddresswithinthespecifiedintervalafterarecoverystepthat
changesnetworksettings,anerrorisreportedandtherecoveryplanproceeds
tothenextvirtualmachine.
WaitforOSHeartbeat:IfthevirtualmachinedoesnotreportanOSheartbeat
withinthespecifiedintervalafterbeingpoweredon,anerrorisreportedand
therecoveryplanproceedstothenextvirtualmachine.
8ClickNext.
9 Selectthenetworktouseduringrecoveryplantests,orselectAutoto
createan
isolatednetworkfromtheTestNetworkdrop‐downmenu.
IftherecoveryplanincludesvirtualmachinesthatrunLinuxandareDHCP
clients,besurethatthetestnetworkincludesaDHCPserver.
IfyourVIclusterattherecoverysiteusesVMwareHA,youmustcreateanduse
useatestVLANthatspansESXhosts.HAclustersdonotworkcorrectlyonother
testnetworkconfigurations.
10 ClickNext.
11 ExpandVirtualMachinesandtheDatacenter.
12 Selectthelocalvirtualmachinestosuspendwhentheplanistestedorrun,and
clickFinish.
Managing Recovery Plans
Whenyouselectarecoveryplaninthenavigationpane,yourrecoveryplandetails
appearinthemainviewingareaofthepage.Thefollowingtabsappearonthepage:
Summary—Providesasummaryoftherecoveryplan,includingname,
description,andcommandsyoucanrunfortheplan,suchaseditingortestingthe
plan.Thesummarytabisthedefault.
VirtualMachines—Displaysthevirtualmachinesthatthisrecoveryplanprotects.
RecoverySteps—Liststhestepsoftherecoveryplan.
History—Displayswhethertherecoveryplanwasrun,thedatewhenitran,the
durationoftherun,thestatus,andtheresultsoftheplan.Providesanoptionto
exportacopyoftheresultsinXML,HTML,orCSVformats.
Permissions—Liststheuserswhoareauthorizedtomaintaintherecoveryplan.