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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
Table 13‑2. Protection Group Replication Events (Continued)
Event Description Cause
Catego
ry
ProtectedVmReconfiguredR
ecoveryLocationSettingsE
vent
Reconfigured recovery
location settings for virtual
machine.
Posted on the protected site vCenter Server
only on the successful completion of
reconfiguring the recovery location settings
for a protected virtual machine.
Info
PlaceholderVmCreatedEven
t
The placeholder virtual
machine was created in the
vCenter Server inventory.
Posted on the recovery site vCenter Server
placeholder virtual machine is created as a
result of protection, repair operation.
Info
PlaceholderVmCreatedFrom
OldProductionVmEvent
The placeholder virtual
machine was created in the
vCenter Server inventory
using the identity of the old
protected virtual machine.
Posted on the recovery site vCenter Server
placeholder virtual machine is created as a
result of swapping the old protected virtual
machine with a placeholder virtual machine
during or after reprotect operation .
Info
VmFullyProtectedEvent
Virtual machine in group:
Unresolved devices have
all been resolved.
A protected virtual machine's previously
unresolved devices have all been resolved.
Warnin
g
VmNotFullyProtectedEvent
Virtual machine in group:
One or more devices need
to be configured for
protection.
Posted on the protected site vCenter Server
only upon device handling updating the
recovery location settings with a non-empty
unresolvedDevices set. This can be triggered
by changes to the protected virtual machine or
during reprotect of a virtual machine.
Warnin
g
PlaceholderVmUnexpectedl
yDeletedEvent
Virtual machine in group:
The placeholder virtual
machine was removed
from the vCenter Server
inventory.
Posted on the recovery site vCenter Server
when Site Recovery Manager detects that the
placeholder virtual machine was
unexpectedly deleted or removed from the
vCenter Server inventory.
Warnin
g
ProductionVmDeletedEvent
Virtual machine in group:
The protected virtual
machine has been removed
from the virtual machine
vCenter Server inventory.
Posted when a protected virtual machine is
deleted or removed from the vCenter Server
inventory.
Error
ProductionVmInvalidEvent
Virtual machine in group:
Cannot resolve the file
locations of the protected
virtual machine for
replication.
Posted when the replication provider cannot
find the protected virtual machine files in
order to replicate them.
Error
Recovery Events
Recovery events provide information about actions and status related to the Site Recovery Manager
recovery processes.
Table 13‑3. Recovery Events
Event Name Event Type Event Description Category
Recovery plan has
begun recovering the
specified virtual
machine.
RecoveryVmBegin
Signaled when the recovery virtual machine
was successfully created. If some error occurred
before the virtual machine ID is known the
event is not fired.
Info
Recovery plan has
completed recovering
the virtual machine.
RecoveryVmEnd
Signaled after the last post-power on script has
completed, or after a recovery-stopping error
has occurred for the virtual machine.
Info
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