6.1

Apply Recovery Settings to Virtual Machines in a Protection Group
If you change advanced recovery settings for protected virtual machines, the new settings do not take effect
until the virtual machines are reconfigured.
You can more conveniently update recovery settings by using the Protection Groups feature when you
apply settings to multiple virtual machines, although it can be used for a single virtual machine. You can
select all of the virtual machines in a protection group and update the settings all at once.
Procedure
1 In the vSphere Web Client, click Site Recovery > Protection Groups.
2 Select the protection group to which the virtual machines belong.
3 On the Related Objects tab, click Virtual Machines.
4 Select the virtual machine and click Remove Protection.
The virtual machine status changes to Not Configured.
5 Click Configure All to reconfigure all virtual machines in the protection group, or select a virtual
machine and click Configure Protection to reconfigure only that virtual machine.
What to do next
To apply recovery settings to a virtual machine in a recovery plan, see “Apply Recovery Settings to Virtual
Machines in a Recovery Plan,” on page 139.
Change Remote Manager Settings
If you run tasks that take a long time to complete, the default timeout period on the remote site might elapse
before the task completes. You can configure additional timeouts to allow long-running tasks to finish.
A long-running task might be the test recovery or cleanup of a large virtual machine. If a virtual machine
has large disks, it can take a long time to perform a test recovery or to perform a full recovery. The default
timeout period monitors the connectivity between the sites, so if a task takes a longer time to complete than
the default timeout period and does not send notifications to the other site while it is running, timeouts can
result. In this case, you can change the remote manager settings so that Site Recovery Manager does not time
out before a long-running task finishes.
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 Remote Manager.
4 Click Edit to modify the remote manager settings.
Option Action
Configure the maximum time to wait
for a remote operation to complete.
The default value is 900 seconds.
Enter a value for remoteManager.defaultTimeout.
Mark a virtual machine as protected
by Site Recovery Manager. The
default value is true.
Select the checkbox to enable the value
remoteManager.enableCustomFields.
Set a time period to wait for
requests to aggregate at the remote
site. The default value is 2000
milliseconds.
Enter a value for remoteManager.powerOnAggregationInterval.
Site Recovery Manager Administration
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