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9 Repeat Step 5 through Step 8 to configure recovery or protection settings, if required.
For example, if you configured IP settings for the protected site, you might want to configure settings
for the recovery site.
10 Repeat the configuration process for other NICs, as required, beginning by choosing another NIC as
described in Step 3.
Report IP Address Mappings for Recovery Plans
The IP address map reporter generates an XML document describing the IP properties of protected virtual
machines and their placeholders, grouped by site and recovery plan. This information can help you
understand the network requirements of a recovery plan.
Because the IP address mapping reporter must connect to both sites, you can run the command at either site.
You are prompted to supply the vCenter login credentials for each site when the command runs.
Procedure
1 Open a command shell on the SRM Server host at either the protected or recovery site.
2 Change to the C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager\bin directory.
3 Run the dr-ip-reporter.exe command, as shown in this example.
dr-ip-reporter.exe --cfg ..\config\vmware-dr.xml --out c:\tmp\report.xml
To restrict the list of networks to just the ones required by a specific recovery plan, include the -plan
option on the command line, as shown in this example.
dr-ip-reporter.exe --cfg ..\config\vmware-dr.xml --out c:\tmp\report.xml -plan Plan-B
NOTE The command normally asks you to verify the thumbprints presented by the certificates at each
site. You can suppress the verification request by including the -I option.
Customizing IP Properties for Multiple Virtual Machines
Manually configuring IP settings for many virtual machines at a recovery site can be time consuming and
can lead to errors in configuration. To facilitate the configuration process for multiple virtual machines, SRM
includes the DR IP Customizer tool.
You use the DR IP Customizer tool to apply customized networking settings to virtual machines when they
start on the recovery site. You provide the customized settings to the DR IP Customizer tool in a comma-
separated value (CSV) file.
Rather than manually creating a CSV file, you can use the DR IP Customizer tool to export a CSV file that
contains information about the networking configurations of the protected virtual machines. You can use
this file as a template for the CSV file to apply on the recovery site by customizing the values in the file.
1 Run DR IP Customizer to generate a CSV file that contains the networking information for the
protected virtual machines.
2 Modify the generated CSV file with networking information that is relevant to the recovery site.
3 Run DR IP Customizer again to apply the CSV with the modified networking configurations to apply
when the virtual machines start up on the recovery site.
You can run the DR IP Customizer tool on either the protected site or on the recovery site. Virtual machine
IDs for protected virtual machines are different at each site, so whichever site you use when you run the DR
IP Customizer tool to generate the CSV file, you must use the same site when you run DR IP Customizer
again to apply the settings.
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