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Limitations on Recovery of Snapshots and Linked Clones 35
Create a Recovery Plan 35
Edit a Recovery Plan 36
Remove a Recovery Plan 37
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Test Recovery, Recovery, and Failback 39
Test a Recovery Plan 39
Pause, Resume, or Cancel a Test 40
Run a Recovery Plan 40
Configuring and Executing Failback 41
Review and Execute Post-Failover Cleanup Tasks 42
Reconfigure Replication 42
Reconfigure SRM to Enable Failback to the Protected Site 43
Restore the Original Configuration 43
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Customizing Site Recovery Manager 45
Assign Roles and Permissions 45
Customizing a Recovery Plan 46
Recovery Plan Steps 46
Customize Recovery Plan Steps 49
Customize the Recovery of an Individual Virtual Machine 51
Report IP Address Mappings for a Protection Group 52
Customize IP Properties for a Group of Virtual Machines 52
Configure Protection for a Virtual Machine or Template 54
Repair Placeholder Virtual Machines After a Failed Test Recovery 56
Configure SRM Alarms 56
Working with Advanced Settings 57
Guest Customization Settings 57
Change License Key Settings 57
Change Recovery Site Settings 58
Change SAN Provider Settings 58
Change Local Site Settings 59
Change Remote Site Settings 59
Avoiding Replication of Paging Files and Other Transient Data 60
Specify a Nonreplicated Datastore for Swapfiles 60
Create a Nonreplicated Virtual Disk for Paging File Storage 61
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Troubleshooting SRM 63
No Replicated Datastores Listed 63
Inconsistent Mount Points Warning When Configuring NFS Arrays 64
Array Script Files Not Found 64
Expected Virtual Machine File Path Cannot Be Found 64
Recovery Plan Time-Out During the Change Network Settings Step 65
Collecting SRM Log Files 66
Collect SRM Server Log Files 66
Collect an SRM Client Log Bundle 66
Index 67
Site Recovery Manager Administration Guide
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