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The customizations you specify are saved as properties of the placeholder virtual machine and then applied
to the recovered virtual machine when a recovery plan is run or tested.
NOTE If you remove the protection of a virtual machine, all recovery customizations are lost.
Report IP Address Mappings for a Protection Group
The IP address map reporter generates an XML document describing the IP properties of protected virtual
machines and their placeholders, grouped by site and recovery plan. This document can help you understand
the network requirements of a recovery plan.
Because the IP address map reporter must connect to both sites, you can run the command at either site. You
are prompted to supply the vCenter login credentials for each site when the command runs.
Procedure
1 Open a command shell on the SRM server host at either the protected or recovery site.
2 Change to the C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager\bin directory.
3 Run the dr-ip-reporter.exe command, as shown in this example.
dr-ip-reporter.exe -cfg ..\config\vmware-dr.xml -out c:\tmp\report.xml
To restrict the list of networks to just the ones required by a specific recovery plan, include the -plan
option on the command line, as shown in this example:.
dr-ip-reporter.exe -cfg ..\config\vmware-dr.xml -out c:\tmp\report.xml -plan Plan-B
NOTE The command normally asks you to verify the thumbprints presented by the certificates at each
site. You can suppress the verification request by including the -I option.
Customize IP Properties for a Group of Virtual Machines
The IP property customization tool enables you to specify IP properties for any or all of the virtual machines
in a recovery plan by editing a file that the tool generates.
SRM includes a tool that allows you to specify IP properties (network settings) for any or all of the virtual
machines in a recovery plan by editing a comma-separated-value (CSV) file that the tool generates. Initially,
this file includes a single row for each placeholder virtual machine in the plan. You can edit the file to add a
row for each network adapter in each placeholder virtual machine and then customize the network settings
for each adapter. When you are finished, you use the edited file as input to a command that creates
customization specifications for the placeholder virtual machines.
The tool is named dr-ip-customizer.exe, and is installed in the bin subdirectory of the SRM installation
directory.
Procedure
1 Open a command shell on the SRM server host at the recovery site.
2 Change directory to C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager\bin.
3 Run the dr-ip-customizer.exe command, as shown in this example.
dr-ip-customizer.exe -cfg ..\config\vmware-dr.xml -csv c:\tmp\example.csv -cmd generate
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