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
vSphere Replication Events and Alarms
vSphere Replication supports event logging. You can define alarms for each event that can trigger if the
event occurs. This feature provides a way to monitor the health of your system and to resolve potential
problems, ensuring reliable virtual machine replication.
Configure vSphere Replication Alarms
You can define and edit alarms to alert you when a specific vSphere Replication event occurs.
You can create an alarm that triggers when a specific event occurs, such as after you configure a virtual
machine for replication. See View and Edit Alarm Settings in the vSphere Web Client in the vSphere Web Client
documentation.
List of vSphere Replication Events
vSphere Replication Replication monitors replications and the underlying replication infrastructure, and
generates different types of events.
Table 10‑14. vSphere Replication Events
Event Name Event Description Event Type
Cate
gory Event Target
vSphere Replication
configured
Virtual machine is
configured for
vSphere Replication
com.vmware.vcHm
s.replicationConfig
uredEvent
Info Virtual Machine
vSphere Replication
unconfigured
Virtual machine
was unconfigured
for
vSphere Replication
com.vmware.vcHm
s.replicationUnconfi
guredEvent
Info Virtual Machine
Host configured for
vSphere Replication
Host is configured
for
vSphere Replication
com.vmware.vcHm
s.hostConfiguredFo
rHbrEvent
Info Host System
Host unconfigured
for vSphere
Replication
Host with managed
object id <Host
Moid> was
unconfigured for
vSphere Replication
com.vmware.vcHm
s.hostUnconfigured
ForHbrEvent
Info Folder
Virtual machine is
not configured for
vSphere Replication
Virtual machine is
experiencing
problems with
vSphere Replication
and must be
reconfigured
com.vmware.vcHm
s.vmMissingReplica
tionConfigurationE
vent
Error Virtual Machine
VM cleaned up from
vSphere Replication
Virtual machine
cleaned up from
vSphere Replication
configuration
com.vmware.vcHm
s.vmReplicationCon
figurationRemoved
Event
Info Virtual Machine
RPO violated Virtual machine
vSphere Replication
RPO is violated by
<x> minutes
com.vmware.vcHm
s.rpoViolatedEvent
Error Virtual Machine
RPO restored Virtual machine
vSphere Replication
RPO is not longer
violated
com.vmware.vcHm
s.rpoRestoredEvent
Info Virtual Machine
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