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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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To prepare Site B for failover in case of a second disaster
1AtSiteB,rescanthehostbusadapters(HBAs)onallthehosts.Thismakesiteasier
toidentifytheprotectedvirtualmachines,becausetheynowappearinvalidinthe
inventory,asdoestheprotectiongrouptowhichtheyareassigned.
2AtSiteB,removePG2fromtherecoveryplan,then
deletePG2.
3AtSiteB,removealltheprotectedvirtualmachinesthatwererecoveredtoSite A
frominventoryatSiteB.Inthisscenario,thisisapp_vm7 to app_vm12.(See“To
removetheout‐of‐dateprotectedvirtualmachinesfrominventoryonSiteA.”)
4 CreatePG3atSiteAfor
theprotectedvirtualmachines.
PG3shouldbeidenticaltoPG 1,theprotectiongroupthatwasoriginally
associatedwithRP1,therecoveryplanthatwasruninRecoverymodeand
resultedinthestartupoftheprotectedvirtualmachinesatSite B.
5ReassociatetheprotectiongroupsatSiteAwithRP
1atSiteB.
YoudonotneedtodeleteRP2(therecoveryplanthatwascreatedatSiteAto
facilitatetherecoverybacktoSiteAfromSiteB).
YouhavecompletedthereprotectionoftheprotectedvirtualmachinesatSiteA.
VMwarerecommendsthatyounowconduct
afailovertestagainstRP1toensurethat
SiteAisprotectedandreadyforanyeventthatmaynecessitatearecoverytoSiteBif
anotherdisasteroccurs.
Other Failback Considerations
Thereareseveralmoreissuestoconsiderduringafailback.
SitePairing—SitesAandBneedtobepairedonlyonce.SRMmaintainsa
bidirectionalrelationshipbetweenpairedsites.
DNSUpdates—IfSiteAandSiteBarenotjoinedbyastretchedVLAN,manually
provideDNSupdatesasthevirtualmachinesaremovedbetweenSite AandSite B
andtheirIPaddresseschangetoaccommodatetheirnewnetwork.