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
replication
configuration fails 121
missed RPO target 119
reconfigure 26
scalability issue with VMFS 119
sneakernet 25
troubleshooting 119, 121
virtual machines with two disks 121
replication seeds 25
reprotect
diagram 49
error after restarting vCenter Server 118
overview 49
preconditions 51
process 50
remediate 52
run 51
states 52
timeout error 117
reservations, limits on recovery 93
Resize VMDK file, with replication seeds 82
Resize VMDK file, without replication seeds 82
reverse recovery 88
roles
administrator 10, 11
assigning 13
combining 13
RPO, default 88
RPO and replication scheduling 21
S
settings for large environments 89, 90
shared recovery site
events 11
isolate customer resources 11
permissions 11
share customer resources 11
tasks 11
SIOC
disaster recovery 93
planned migration 93
reprotect 93
site status, events 97
snapshots, limitations on recovery of 93
sneakernet, replication 25
SNMP traps 104
SRA 87
SRM administrator 10, 11
SRM administration 7
SRM roles 14
steps, recovery 58
storage, events 101
storage DRS, and array-based replication 39
Storage DRS, with array-based replication 29
storage provider, events 101
storage vMotion, and array-based replication 39
Storage vMotion, with array-based replication 29
suspended virtual machines, limitations on
recovery oflimitations on recovery of 93
swap files, prevent replication 80
system logs, replication logs 112
T
test recovery plan, Auto option 37
top-level command steps, create 60
top-level message prompts, create 61
troubleshooting
failover 113
guest customization 113
recovery 113, 116
recovery times out 116
V
vCenter Server, administrator role 10
vCenter Server administrator 10
virtual machine
customize IP properties 77
customize recovery of 63
recovery priority 57, 58
suspend during recovery 44
VMware Tools
and recovery 37, 85
and virtual machine priority 58
recovery fails 117, 123
vmware-dr.xml file 89, 90
vSphere Replication
administrator role 11
generic error 122
host moved 122
log bundles 123
remove replication 27
replicate virtual machines 24
roles 11
stop replication 27
synchronization 88
vSphere Replication administrator 11
vSphere Replication roles 17
vSphere Replication limitations, replicating large
volumes, shared disk support 96
vSphere Replication protection group
edit 33
remove protection 33
Index
VMware, Inc. 127