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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 vRealize Orchestrator
The vRealize Orchestrator plug-in for Site Recovery Manager allows you to automate certain
Site Recovery Manager operations by including them in vRealize Orchestrator workflows.
The vRealize Orchestrator plug-in for Site Recovery Manager includes actions and workflows that run
Site Recovery Manager operations. If you are a vRealize Orchestrator administrator, you can create
workflows that include the actions and workflows from the Site Recovery Manager plug-in. By including
Site Recovery Manager actions and workflows in vRealize Orchestrator workflows, you can combine
Site Recovery Manager operations with the automated operations that other vRealize Orchestrator plug-ins
provide.
For example, you can create a workflow that uses the actions and workflows of the vRealize Orchestrator
plug-in for vCenter Server to create and configure virtual machines and register them with vCenter Server.
In the same workflow, you can use the actions and workflows from the Site Recovery Manager plug-in to
create protection groups and protect the virtual machines as soon as they are created. You can also use
Site Recovery Manager actions and workflows to configure some of the recovery settings for the protected
virtual machines. Combining the vCenter Server and Site Recovery Manager actions and workflows in a
vRealize Orchestrator workflow thus allows you to automate the process of creating and protecting virtual
machines.
You can use the vRealize Orchestrator plug-in for Site Recovery Manager in a shared recovery site
configuration, in which you connect multiple Site Recovery Manager instances to a single vCenter Server
instance. You can also use the vRealize Orchestrator plug-in for Site Recovery Manager with multiple
Site Recovery Manager instances on multiple vCenter Server instances that are connected to the same
vCenter Single Sign-On server.
For information about creating workflows by using vRealize Orchestrator, see the vRealize Orchestrator
documentation.
For information about how to use the vRealize Orchestrator plug-in for Site Recovery Manager, see the
vRealize Orchestrator Plug-Ins Documentation.
Automated Operations That the vRealize Orchestrator Plug-In for
Site Recovery Manager Provides
With the vRealize Orchestrator plug-in for Site Recovery Manager, you can automate the creation of your
Site Recovery Manager infrastructure to add virtual machines to protection groups and configure recovery
settings of virtual machines.
With the vRealize Orchestrator plug-in for Site Recovery Manager you can protect virtual machines by
adding them to array-based replication or to vSphere Replication protection groups. The plug-in does not
automate the configuration of vSphere Replication on virtual machines. You can use the
vRealize Orchestrator Plug-In for vSphere Replication to configure vSphere Replication on virtual machines,
or configure vSphere Replication manually. For information about the vRealize Orchestrator Plug-In for
vSphere Replication, see the vRealize Orchestrator Plug-In for vSphere Replication 6.0 Release Notes.
The vRealize Orchestrator plug-in for Site Recovery Manager includes vRealize Orchestrator actions,
workflows, policy templates to trigger actions when certain events occur, and scripting objects to expose
selected elements of the Site Recovery Manager API to workflows.
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The plug-in provides actions and workflows that create a Site Recovery Manager infrastructure:
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Create array-based protection groups and vSphere Replication protection groups
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Create inventory mappings between matching objects
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Add protection groups to existing recovery plans
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