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
Table 10‑14. vSphere Replication Events (Continued)
Event Name Event Description Event Type
Cate
gory Event Target
Failed to resolve
storage policy
Failed to resolve a
specific storage
policy for the
provided storage
profile ID <profile
ID> and datastore
with managed
object ID <Moid>
com.vmware.vcHm
s.failedResolvingSto
ragePolicyEvent
Error Datastore
vSphere Replication
paused
vSphere Replication
was paused as a
result of a
configuration
change, such as a
disk being added or
reverting to a
snapshot where
disk states are
different
hbr.primary.System
PausedReplication
Error Virtual Machine
Invalid vSphere
Replication
configuration
Invalid
vSphere Replication
configuration
hbr.primary.Invalid
VmReplicationConf
igurationEvent
Error Virtual Machine
Sync started Sync started hbr.primary.DeltaSt
artedEvent
Info Virtual Machine
Application
consistent sync
completed
Application
consistent sync
completed
hbr.primary.AppQ
uiescedDeltaCompl
etedEvent
Info Virtual Machine
File-system
consistent sync
completed
File-system
consistent sync
completed
hbr.primary.FSQuie
scedDeltaComplete
dEvent
Warn
ing
Virtual Machine
Unquiesced crash
consistent sync
completed
Unquiesced crash
consistent sync
completed.
Quiescing failed or
virtual machine is
powered off.
hbr.primary.Unquie
scedDeltaComplete
dEvent
Warn
ing
Virtual Machine
Crash consistent sync
completed
Crash consistent
sync completed
hbr.primary.DeltaC
ompletedEvent
Info Virtual Machine
Sync failed to start Sync failed to start hbr.primary.FailedT
oStartDeltaEvent
Error Virtual Machine
Full-sync started Full-sync started hbr.primary.SyncSt
artedEvent
Info Virtual Machine
Full-sync completed Full-sync completed hbr.primary.SyncCo
mpletedEvent
Info Virtual Machine
Full-sync failed to
start
Full-sync failed to
start
hbr.primary.FailedT
oStartSyncEvent
Error Virtual Machine
Sync aborted Sync aborted hbr.primary.DeltaA
bortedEvent
Warn
ing
Virtual Machine
No connection to VR
Server
No connection to
vSphere Replication
Server
hbr.primary.NoCon
nectionToHbrServe
rEvent
Warn
ing
Virtual Machine
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