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
I
inventory mappings
to apply 33
to override 79, 80
IP address mappings, to report 67
IP customization, multiple virtual machines 67
IP customization,OSP Tools 65, 66
IP properties, customizing 65, 66
L
licensing, events 104
limits, limits on recovery 93
linked clones, limitations on recovery of 93
log files, collecting 109
logging, set levels 83
logs, downloading 109
LVM.enableResignature flag setting after
failover 114
M
many-to-one configuration 11
monitoring connection 96
MPIT 46, 88
MSCS
and vMotion 41
DRS requirements 41
ESXi host requirements 41
protection 41
reprotect 41
N
N:1 configuration 11
network
datacenter 37
test 37
P
per-virtual machine command steps, create 61
per-virtual machine message prompts, create 62
permissions
events 104
to assign 13
permissions, how SRM handles permissions 10
physical couriering 25
PIT recovery 22, 46
planned migration, host in maintenance
mode 116
point in time snapshots 88
point-in-time recovery 46
privileges 9
protection group
create 31
unresolved devices error 115
protection groups
array-based 29
events 98
relation to recovery plan 29
vSphere Replication 32
R
RDM, support 93
recovering virtual machines at specific point in
time 22
recovery
and VMware Tools 117, 123
customize for a virtual machine 63
events 100
multiple recovery site hosts 81
of datastores in APD state 45
steps 58
unavailable hardware error 117
recovery plan
APD state 37
cleanup 44, 45
command steps 62
create 42
customizing 57
deleting 48
differences between testing and running 38
disaster recovery 37
export history 47
export steps 47
force cleanup 44
forced recovery 38, 45
planned migration 37
privileges 38
run 35, 42
running 37, 38, 45
steps 57
suspend virtual machines 44
test, create 35
testing 36, 38, 44
time-outs 57
to change properties of 43
to report IP address mappings used by 67
view history 47
virtual machine recovery priority 57
recovery priority, virtual machine 57, 58
recovery step commands
per-virtual machine 59
top-level 59
recovery test, to cancel 48
replicate virtual machines using vSphere
Replication 22
replicating multiple virtual machines, datastore
mapping not configured 120
replicating virtual machines 21
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