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settings for site B. When recovering from site B to site A Site Recovery Manager applies the local recovery
settings for site A. This condition exists until you explicitly edit and save individual virtual machine
recovery settings from the recovery plan Virtual Machines tab. Recovery settings for the affected virtual
machine synchronize and become identical on both Site Recovery Manager sites.
Procedure
1 In the vSphere Web Client, click Site Recovery > Sites, and select a site.
2 On the Manage tab, click Advanced Settings.
3 Click Recovery.
4 Click Edit to modify the recovery site settings.
Option Action
Change the virtual machine power
off timeout in IP customization. The
default value is 300 seconds.
Enter a new value in the recovery.customizationShutdownTimeout text
box. This value is the minimal virtual machine power off timeout in
seconds used in IP customization workflow only. If you specify power off
timeout in virtual machine recovery settings, the greater value of the two
takes precedence.
Change the IP customization
timeout. The default value is 600
seconds.
Enter a new value in the recovery.customizationTimeout text box. This
value is the timeout used in preparation of IP customization scripts on the
Site Recovery Manager Server. You rarely need to change this value.
Change the default priority for
recovering a virtual machine. The
default value is 3.
Enter a new value in the recovery.defaultPriority text box.
Enable or disable forced recovery.
The default value is false.
Select or deselect the recovery.forceRecovery check box. Activate forced
recovery in cases where a lack of connectivity to the protected site severely
affects RTO. This setting only removes the restriction to select forced
recovery when running a recovery plan. To actually enable forced
recovery, select it when you run a plan.
Change the timeout for hosts in a
cluster to power on. The default
value is 1200 seconds.
Enter a new value in the recovery.hostPowerOnTimeout text box.
Change the default timeout value to
wait for guest shutdown to
complete before powering off VMs.
The default value is 300 seconds.
Enter a new value in the recovery.powerOffTimeout text box. This value
defines the guest operating system timeout before power-off is attempted
as a last resort to shutting down the virtual machines.
NOTE The virtual machines power off when the timeout expires. If the OS
of the virtual machine has not completed its shutdown tasks when the
timeout expires, data loss might result. For a large virtual machine that
requires a longer time to shut down gracefully, set the guest OS power-off
timeout individually for that virtual machine as described in “Configure
Virtual Machine Startup and Shutdown Options,” on page 90.
Change the delay after powering on
a virtual machine before starting
dependent tasks. The default value
is 0.
Enter a new value in the recovery.powerOnDelay text box. The new value
applies to power-on tasks for virtual machines at the recovery site.
Change the timeout to wait for
VMware Tools when powering on
virtual machines. The default value
is 300 seconds.
Enter a new value in the recovery.powerOnTimeout text box. The new
power-on value applies to power-on tasks for virtual machines at the
recovery site. If protected virtual machines do not have VMware Tools
installed, set this value to 0 to skip waiting for VMware Tools when
powering on those VMs and avoid a timeout error in SRM.
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