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
How Site Recovery Manager Interacts with DPM and DRS During
Recovery
Distributed Power Management (DPM) and Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) are not mandatory, but
Site Recovery Manager supports both services and enabling them provides certain benefits when you use
Site Recovery Manager.
DPM is a VMware feature that manages power consumption by ESX hosts. DRS is a VMware facility that
manages the assignment of virtual machines to ESX hosts.
Site Recovery Manager temporarily disables DPM for the clusters on the recovery site and ensures that all
hosts in the cluster are powered on when recovery or test recovery starts. This allows for sufficient host
capacity while recovering virtual machines. After the recovery or test is finished, Site Recovery Manager
restores the DPM settings on the cluster on the recovery site to their original values.
For planned migration and reprotect operations, Site Recovery Manager also disables DPM on the affected
clusters on the protected site and ensures that all of the hosts in the cluster are powered on. This allows
Site Recovery Manager to complete host level operations, for example unmounting datastores or cleaning
up storage after a reprotect operation. After the planned migration or reprotect operation has finished,
Site Recovery Manager restores the DPM settings on the cluster on the protected site to their original values.
The hosts in the cluster are left in the running state so that DPM can power them down as needed.
Site Recovery Manager registers virtual machines across the available ESX hosts in a round-robin order, to
distribute the potential load as evenly as possible. Site Recovery Manager always uses DRS placement to
balance the load intelligently across hosts before it powers on recovered virtual machines on the recovery
site, even if DRS is disabled on the cluster.
If DRS is enabled and in fully automatic mode, DRS might move other virtual machines to further balance
the load across the cluster while Site Recovery Manager is powering on the recovered virtual machines. DRS
continues to balance all virtual machines across the cluster after Site Recovery Manager has powered on the
recovered virtual machines.
How Site Recovery Manager Interacts with Storage DRS or Storage
vMotion
You can use Site Recovery Manager when protecting virtual machines on sites that are configured for
Storage DRS or Storage vMotion if you follow certain guidelines.
The behavior of Storage DRS or Storage vMotion depends on whether you use Site Recovery Manager with
array-based replication or with vSphere Replication.
For information about how Site Recovery Manager handles datastore tagging for Storage DRS, see
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2108196.
Using Site Recovery Manager with Array-Based Replication on Sites with
Storage DRS or Storage vMotion
You must follow the guidelines if you use array-based replication to protect virtual machines on sites that
use Storage DRS or Storage vMotion.
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Storage DRS considers the protection and the replication status of datastores while calculating
placement recommendations to perform automatic or manual migration. Storage DRS checks if the
datastore is replicated or not, part of a consistency group or protection group, then tags the datastore
accordingly. For more information on how Site Recovery Manager handles datastore tagging, see
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2108196.
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