6.1
Table Of Contents
- Site Recovery Manager Administration
- Contents
- About VMware Site Recovery Manager Administration
- Updated Information
- Site Recovery Manager Privileges, Roles, and Permissions
- How Site Recovery Manager Handles Permissions
- Site Recovery Manager and the vCenter Server Administrator Role
- Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication Roles
- Managing Permissions in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Assign Site Recovery Manager Roles and Permissions
- Site Recovery Manager Roles Reference
- Replicating Virtual Machines
- Configuring Mappings
- About Placeholder Virtual Machines
- Creating and Managing Protection Groups
- About Array-Based Replication Protection Groups and Datastore Groups
- About vSphere Replication Protection Groups
- About Storage Policy Protection Groups
- Create Protection Groups
- Organize Protection Groups in Folders
- Add or Remove Datastore Groups or Virtual Machines to or from a Protection Group
- Apply Inventory Mappings to All Members of a Protection Group
- Configure Inventory Mappings for an Individual Virtual Machine in a Protection Group
- Modifying the Settings of a Protected Virtual Machine
- Remove Protection from a Virtual Machine
- Protection Group Status Reference
- Virtual Machine Protection Status Reference
- Creating, Testing, and Running Site Recovery Manager 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
- Performing Test Recovery of Virtual Machines Across Multiple Hosts on the Recovery Site
- Create, Test, and Run a Recovery Plan
- Export Recovery Plan Steps
- View and Export a Recovery Plan History
- Delete a Recovery Plan
- Recovery Plan Status Reference
- Configuring a Recovery Plan
- Recovery Plan Steps
- Creating Custom Recovery Steps
- Suspend Virtual Machines When a Recovery Plan Runs
- Specify the Recovery Priority of a Virtual Machine
- Configure Virtual Machine Dependencies
- Enable vSphere vMotion for Planned Migration
- Configure Virtual Machine Startup and Shutdown Options
- Limitations to Protection and Recovery of Virtual Machines
- Customizing IP Properties for Virtual Machines
- Reprotecting Virtual Machines After a Recovery
- How Site Recovery Manager Reprotects Virtual Machines with Array Based Replication
- How Site Recovery Manager Reprotects Virtual Machines with vSphere Replication
- How Site Recovery Manager Reprotects Virtual Machines with Storage Policy Protection
- Preconditions for Performing Reprotect
- Reprotect Virtual Machines
- Reprotect States
- Restoring the Pre-Recovery Site Configuration By Performing Failback
- Interoperability of Site Recovery Manager with Other Software
- Site Recovery Manager and vCenter Server
- Using Site Recovery Manager with VMware Virtual SAN Storage and vSphere Replication
- How Site Recovery Manager Interacts with DPM and DRS During Recovery
- How Site Recovery Manager Interacts with Storage DRS or Storage vMotion
- How Site Recovery Manager Interacts with vSphere High Availability
- How Site Recovery Manager Interacts with Stretched Storage
- Using Site Recovery Manager with VMware NSX
- Site Recovery Manager and vSphere PowerCLI
- Site Recovery Manager and vRealize Orchestrator
- Protecting Microsoft Cluster Server and Fault Tolerant Virtual Machines
- Using Site Recovery Manager with SIOC Datastores
- Using Site Recovery Manager with Admission Control Clusters
- Site Recovery Manager and Virtual Machines Attached to RDM Disk Devices
- Site Recovery Manager and Active Directory Domain Controllers
- Advanced Site Recovery Manager Configuration
- Reconfigure Site Recovery Manager Settings
- Change Connections Settings
- Change Site Recovery Manager History Report Collection Setting
- Change Local Site Settings
- Change Logging Settings
- Change Recovery Settings
- Change Remote Manager Settings
- Change Remote Site Settings
- Change Replication Settings
- Change SSO Setting
- Change Storage Settings
- Change ABR Storage Policy Setting
- Change Storage Provider Settings
- Change vSphere Replication Settings
- Modify Settings to Run Large Site Recovery Manager Environments
- Reconfigure Site Recovery Manager Settings
- Site Recovery Manager Events and Alarms
- Collecting Site Recovery Manager Log Files
- Troubleshooting Site Recovery Manager
- Site Recovery Manager 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 Site Recovery Manager Test Recovery
- Adding Virtual Machines to a Protection Group Fails with an Unresolved Devices Error
- Configuring Protection fails with Placeholder Creation Error
- Rapid Deletion and Recreation of Placeholders Fails
- 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
- Synchronization Fails for vSphere Replication Protection Groups
- Rescanning Datastores Fails Because Storage Devices are Not Ready
- Recovery Sticks at 36% During Planned Migration
- Operations Fail with Error About a Nonreplicated Configuration File
- Index
Site Recovery Manager and vCenter Server
Site Recovery Manager takes advantage of vCenter Server services, such as storage management,
authentication, authorization, and guest customization. Site Recovery Manager also uses the standard set of
vSphere administrative tools to manage these services.
Because the Site Recovery Manager Server depends on vCenter Server for some services, you must install
and configure vCenter Server at a site before you install Site Recovery Manager.
You can use Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication with the vCenter Server Appliance or with a
standard vCenter Server installation. You can have vCenter Server Appliance on one site and a standard
vCenter Server installation on the other.
How Changes to vCenter Server Inventory Affect Site Recovery Manager
Because Site Recovery Manager protection groups apply to a subset of the vCenter Server inventory,
changes to the protected inventory made by vCenter Server administrators and users can affect the integrity
of Site Recovery Manager protection and recovery. Site Recovery Manager depends on the availability of
certain objects, such as virtual machines, folders, resource pools, and networks, in the vCenter Server
inventory at the protected and recovery sites. Deletion of resources such as folders or networks that are
referenced by recovery plans can invalidate the plan. Renaming or relocating objects in the vCenter Server
inventory does not affect Site Recovery Manager, unless it causes resources to become inaccessible during
test or recovery.
In the case of ABR and VR, Site Recovery Manager can tolerate certain changes at the protected site without
disruption.
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Deleting protected virtual machines.
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Deleting an object for which an inventory mapping exists.
Site Recovery Manager can tolerate certain changes at the recovery site without disruption.
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Moving placeholder virtual machines to a different folder or resource pool.
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Deleting an object for which an inventory map exists.
NOTE Storage Policy Protection Groups handle changes differently. See “Inventory Mappings for Storage
Policy Protection Groups,” on page 34.
Site Recovery Manager and the vCenter Server Database
If you update the vCenter Server installation that Site Recovery Manager extends, do not reinitialize the
vCenter Server database during the update. Site Recovery Manager stores identification information about
all vCenter Server objects in the Site Recovery Manager database. If you reinitialize the vCenter Server
database, the identification data that Site Recovery Manager has stored no longer matches identification
information in the new vCenter Server instance and objects are not found.
Using Site Recovery Manager with VMware Virtual SAN Storage and
vSphere Replication
You can use VMware Virtual SAN storage with Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication.
Site Recovery Manager 6.1 supports vSphere Replication 6.1 with Virtual SAN 6.1. You cannot use Virtual
SAN storage with array-based replication.
For information about using vSphere Replication with Virtual SAN, see Using vSphere Replication with
Virtual SAN Storage in vSphere Replication Administration.
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