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
Table 13‑1. Site Status Events (Continued)
Event Name Event Type Event Description
Categor
y
The connection to the
local inventory service
is restored
LocalQsConnectionUpEven
t
Connection to the local inventory server is
successful. You can specify the interval between
pings from Site Recovery Manager to the
inventory service by adding
<connections><qsPingInterval>number of
seconds</qsPingInterval></connections> in
the vmware-dr.xml configuration file.
Info
The local inventory
service is not
responding
LocalQsPingFailedEvent
Connection attempt to the local inventory service
fails. You can specify the number of internal pings
to skip before Site Recovery Manager throws
LocalQsPingFailedEvent by modifying the
qsPingFailedDelay value in Site Recovery > Sites
> Site > Manage > Advanced Settings >
Connections.
Warning
Low disk space
LowDiskSpaceEvent
Free disk space on the local site is low. Warning
Low memory
LowMemoryEvent
Available memory on the local site is low. Warning
SRM Server certificate
not yet valid
SrmCertificateNotValidE
vent
The SSL/TLS certificate for the specified SRM
Server is in the future.
Error
SRM Server certificate
expiring
SrmCertificateExpiringE
vent
The SSL/TLS certificate for the specified SRM
Server expires in the specified number of days.
Info
SRM Server certificate
has expired
SrmCertificateExpiredEv
ent
The SSL/TLS certificate for the specified SRM
Server has expired.
Error
Protection Group Events
Protection Group events provide information about actions and status related to protection groups.
Table 13‑2. Protection Group Replication Events
Event Description Cause
Catego
ry
CreatedEvent
Created protection group. Posted on both vCenter Servers in the
completion of the Commit phase of creating a
protection group.
Info
RemovedEvent
Removed protection group. Posted on both vCenter Servers in the
completion of the Commit phase of removing
a protection group.
Info
ReconfiguredEvent
Reconfigured protection
group.
Posted on both vCenter Servers in the
completion of the Commit phase of
reconfiguring a protection group.
Info
ProtectedVmCreatedEvent
Virtual machine in group is
configured for protection.
Posted on both vCenter Servers in the
completion of the Commit phase of the
protection of a virtual machine.
Info
ProtectedVmRemovedEvent
Virtual machine in group is
no longer configured for
protection.
Posted on both vCenter Servers in the
completion of the Commit phase of
unprotecting a virtual machine.
Info
ProtectedVmReconfiguredP
rotectionSettingsEvent
Reconfigured protection
settings for virtual
machine.
Posted on both vCenter Servers in the
completion of the Commit phase of
reconfiguring virtual machine protection
settings.
Info
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