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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
Contents
About VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Administration 7
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SRM Privileges, Roles, and Permissions 9
How SRM Handles Permissions 10
SRM and the vCenter Server Administrator Role 10
SRM and vSphere Replication Roles 11
Managing Permissions in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration 11
Assign SRM Roles and Permissions 13
SRM Roles Reference 14
vSphere Replication Roles Reference 17
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Replicating Virtual Machines 21
How the Recovery Point Objective Affects Replication Scheduling 21
Replicating a Virtual Machine and Enabling Multiple Point in Time Instances 22
Configure Replication for a Single Virtual Machine 22
Configure Replication for Multiple Virtual Machines 24
Replicate Virtual Machines By Using Replication Seeds 25
Reconfigure Replications 26
Stop Replicating a Virtual Machine 27
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Creating Protection Groups 29
About Array-Based Protection Groups and Datastore Groups 29
How SRM Computes Datastore Groups 30
Create Array-Based Protection Groups 31
Edit Array-Based Protection Groups 32
Create vSphere Replication Protection Groups 32
Edit vSphere Replication Protection Groups 33
Apply Inventory Mappings to All Members of a Protection Group 33
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Creating, Testing, and Running Recovery Plans 35
Testing a Recovery Plan 36
Test Networks and Datacenter Networks 37
Performing a Planned Migration or Disaster Recovery By Running a Recovery Plan 37
Running a Recovery with Forced Recovery 38
Differences Between Testing and Running a Recovery Plan 38
How SRM Interacts with DPM and DRS During Recovery 39
How SRM Interacts with Storage DRS or Storage vMotion 39
Using SRM with Array-Based Replication on Sites with Storage DRS or Storage vMotion 39
Using SRM with vSphere Replication on Sites with Storage DRS or Storage vMotion 40
How SRM Interacts with vSphere High Availability 41
Protecting Microsoft Cluster Server and Fault Tolerant Virtual Machines 41
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