5.5
Table Of Contents
- Site Recovery Manager Administration
- Contents
- About VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Administration
- SRM Privileges, Roles, and Permissions
- Replicating Virtual Machines
- How the Recovery Point Objective Affects Replication Scheduling
- Replicating a Virtual Machine and Enabling Multiple Point in Time Instances
- Configure Replication for a Single Virtual Machine
- Configure Replication for Multiple Virtual Machines
- Replicate Virtual Machines By Using Replication Seeds
- Reconfigure Replications
- Stop Replicating a Virtual Machine
- Creating Protection Groups
- Creating, Testing, and Running Recovery Plans
- Testing a Recovery Plan
- Performing a Planned Migration or Disaster Recovery By Running a Recovery Plan
- Differences Between Testing and Running a Recovery Plan
- How SRM Interacts with DPM and DRS During Recovery
- How SRM Interacts with Storage DRS or Storage vMotion
- How SRM Interacts with vSphere High Availability
- Protecting Microsoft Cluster Server and Fault Tolerant Virtual Machines
- Create, Test, and Run a Recovery Plan
- Export Recovery Plan Steps
- View and Export Recovery Plan History
- Cancel a Test or Recovery
- Delete a Recovery Plan
- Reprotecting Virtual Machines After a Recovery
- Restoring the Pre-Recovery Site Configuration By Performing Failback
- Customizing a Recovery Plan
- Recovery Plan Steps
- Specify the Recovery Priority of a Virtual Machine
- Creating Custom Recovery Steps
- Types of Custom Recovery Steps
- How SRM Handles Custom Recovery Steps
- Create Top-Level Command Steps
- Create Top-Level Message Prompt Steps
- Create Command Steps for Individual Virtual Machines
- Create Message Prompt Steps for Individual Virtual Machines
- Guidelines for Writing Command Steps
- Environment Variables for Command Steps
- Customize the Recovery of an Individual Virtual Machine
- Customizing IP Properties for Virtual Machines
- Advanced SRM Configuration
- Configure Protection for a Virtual Machine or Template
- Configure Resource Mappings for a Virtual Machine
- Specify a Nonreplicated Datastore for Swap Files
- Recovering Virtual Machines Across Multiple Hosts on the Recovery Site
- Resize Virtual Machine Disk Files During Replication Using Replication Seeds
- Resize Virtual Machine Disk Files During Replication Without Using Replication Seeds
- Reconfigure SRM Settings
- Change Local Site Settings
- Change Logging Settings
- Change Recovery Settings
- Change Remote Site Settings
- Change the Timeout for the Creation of Placeholder Virtual Machines
- Change Storage Settings
- Change Storage Provider Settings
- Change vSphere Replication Settings
- Modify Settings to Run Large SRM Environments
- Troubleshooting SRM Administration
- Limitations to Protection and Recovery of Virtual Machines
- SRM Events and Alarms
- vSphere Replication Events and Alarms
- Collecting SRM Log Files
- Access the vSphere Replication Logs
- Resolve SRM Operational Issues
- SRM Doubles the Number of Backslashes in the Command Line When Running Callouts
- Powering on Many Virtual Machines Simultaneously on the Recovery Site Can Lead to Errors
- LVM.enableResignature=1 Remains Set After a SRM Test Failover
- Adding Virtual Machines to a Protection Group Fails with an Unresolved Devices Error
- Configuring Protection fails with Placeholder Creation Error
- Planned Migration Fails Because Host is in an Incorrect State
- Recovery Fails with a Timeout Error During Network Customization for Some Virtual Machines
- Recovery Fails with Unavailable Host and Datastore Error
- Reprotect Fails with a vSphere Replication Timeout Error
- Recovery Plan Times Out While Waiting for VMware Tools
- Reprotect Fails After Restarting vCenter Server
- Rescanning Datastores Fails Because Storage Devices are Not Ready
- Scalability Problems when Replicating Many Virtual Machines with a Short RPO to a Shared VMFS Datastore on ESXi Server 5.0
- Application Quiescing Changes to File System Quiescing During vMotion to an Older Host
- Reconfigure Replication on Virtual Machines with No Datastore Mapping
- Configuring Replication Fails for Virtual Machines with Two Disks on Different Datastores
- vSphere Replication RPO Violations
- vSphere Replication Does Not Start After Moving the Host
- Unexpected vSphere Replication Failure Results in a Generic Error
- Generating Support Bundles Disrupts vSphere Replication Recovery
- Recovery Plan Times Out While Waiting for VMware Tools
- Index
Recovery Events
Recovery events provide information about actions and status related to the SRM recovery processes.
Table 10‑5. Recovery Events
Event Key Event Description Cause
RecoveryVmBegin
Recovery Plan has begun recovering
the specified virtual machine.
Signaled when the recovery virtual
machine was successfully created. If
some error occurred before the virtual
machine ID is known the event is not
fired.
RecoveryVmEnd
Recovery Plan has completed
recovering the virtual machine.
Signaled after the last post-power on
script has completed, or after a
recovery-stopping error has occurred
for the virtual machine.
RecoveryPlanCreate
Recovery Plan has been created. Signaled when a new plan is created or
cloned. It will be sent to each
vCenter Server instance where the
plan is hosted.
RecoveryPlanDestroy
Recovery Plan has been destroyed. Signaled when a plan has been deleted
from the site. Note that on the site
where the plan has been requested to
deleted there can be a significant
delay, while it waits for the plan to be
deleted at the other site. It will be sent
to each vCenter Server instance where
the plan is hosted.
RecoveryPlanEdit
Recovery Plan was changed. Signaled when an existing plan is
edited.
RecoveryPlanExecuteTestBegin
Recovery Plan has begun a test. Signaled on the recovery site when a
recovery test is initiated.
RecoveryPlanExecuteTestEnd
Recovery Plan has completed a test. Signaled on the recovery site when a
recovery test has completed. If an error
occurred it is available as described.
RecoveryPlanExecuteCleanupBegin
Recovery Plan has begun a test
cleanup.
Signaled on the recovery site when a
test cleanup is initiated.
RecoveryPlanExecuteCleanupEnd
Recovery Plan has completed a test
cleanup.
Signaled on the recovery site when a
test cleanup has completed. If an error
occurred it is available as described.
RecoveryPlanExecuteBegin
Recovery Plan has begun a recovery. Signaled on the recovery site when a
recovery is initiated.
RecoveryPlanExecuteEnd
Recovery Plan has completed a
recovery.
Signaled on the recovery site when a
recovery has completed. If an error
occurred it is available as described.
RecoveryPlanExecuteReprotectBeg
in
Recovery Plan has begun a reprotect
operation.
Signaled on the recovery site when a
reprotect is initiated.
RecoveryPlanExecuteReprotectEnd
Recovery Plan has completed a
reprotect operation.
Signaled on the recovery site when a
reprotect has completed. If an error
occurred it is available as described.
RecoveryPlanPromptDisplay
Recovery Plan is displaying a prompt
and is waiting for user input.
Signaled on the recovery site when a
prompt step is encountered. The key is
a unique identifier for the prompt.
RecoveryPlanPromptResponse
Recovery Plan has received an
answer to its prompt.
Signaled on the recovery site when a
prompt step is closed.
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