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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
Table 10‑13. SNMP Traps
Type Description Content
RecoveryPlanExecuteTestBeginTra
p
This trap is sent when a Recovery
Plan starts a test.
SRM site name, recovery plan name,
recovery type, execution state.
RecoveryPlanExecuteTestEndTrap
This trap is sent when a Recovery
Plan ends a test.
SRM site name, recovery plan name,
recovery type, execution state, result
status.
RecoveryPlanExecuteCleanupBegin
Trap
This trap is sent when a Recovery
Plan starts a test cleanup.
SRM site name, recovery plan name,
recovery type, execution state.
RecoveryPlanExecuteCleanupEndTr
ap
This trap is sent a Recovery Plan ends
a test cleanup.
SRM site name, recovery plan name,
recovery type, execution state, result
status.
RecoveryPlanExecuteBeginTrap
This trap is sent when a Recovery
Plan starts a recovery.
SRM site name, recovery plan name,
recovery type, execution state.
RecoveryPlanExecuteEndTrap
This trap is sent when a Recovery
Plan ends a recovery.
SRM site name, recovery plan name,
recovery type, execution state, result
status.
RecoveryPlanExecuteReprotectBeg
inTrap
This trap is sent when SRM starts the
reprotect workflow for a Recovery
Plan.
SRM site name, recovery plan name,
recovery type, execution state.
RecoveryPlanExecuteReprotectEnd
Trap
This trap is sent when SRM has
finished the reprotect workflow for a
Recovery Plan.
SRM site name, recovery plan name,
recovery type, execution state, result
status.
RecoveryVmBeginTrap
This trap is sent when a Recovery
Plan starts recovering a virtual
machine.
SRM site name, recovery plan name,
recovery type, execution state, virtual
machine name, virtual machine UUID.
RecoveryVmEndTrap
This trap is sent when a Recovery
Plan has finished recovering a virtual
machine.
SRM site name, recovery plan name,
recovery type, execution state, virtual
machine name, virtual machine UUID,
result status.
RecoveryPlanServerCommandBeginT
rap
This trap is sent when a Recovery
Plan starts the execution of a
command callout on SRM Server
machine.
SRM site name, recovery plan name,
recovery type, execution state,
command name.
RecoveryPlanServerCommandEndTra
p
This trap is sent when a Recovery
Plan has finished the execution of a
command callout on SRM Server
machine.
SRM site name, recovery plan name,
recovery type, execution state,
command name, result status.
RecoveryPlanVmCommandBeginTrap
This trap is sent when a Recovery
Plan starts the execution of a
command callout on a recovered
virtual machine.
SRM site name, recovery plan name,
recovery type, execution state,
command name, virtual machine
name, virtual machine UUID.
RecoveryPlanVmCommandEndTrap
This trap is sent when a Recovery
Plan has finished the execution of a
command callout on a recovered
virtual machine.
SRM site name, recovery plan name,
recovery type, execution state,
command name, virtual machine
name, virtual machine UUID, result
status.
RecoveryPlanPromptDisplayTrap
This trap is sent when a Recovery
Plan requires user input before
continuing.
SRM site name, recovery plan name,
recovery type, execution state, prompt
string.
RecoveryPlanPromptResponseTrap
This trap is sent when a Recovery
Plan no longer requires user input
before continuing.
SRM site name, recovery plan name,
recovery type, and execution state.
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