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 13‑3. Recovery Events (Continued)
Event Name Event Type Event Description Category
Recovery Plan
[data.Plan] failed
registering virtual
machine [data.Vm].
RecoveryVmRegisterFa
iled
Signaled in the case of SPPGs after a recovered
VM has failed registration with the recovery site
VC. If the plan is run against the local VC, then
[data.local] will be true.
Info
Recovery plan
hostnamehas been
created.
PlanCreated
Signaled when a new plan is created. It is sent to
each vCenter Server instance where the plan is
hosted.
Info
Recovery plan has
been destroyed.
PlanDestroy
Signaled when a plan has been deleted from the
site. Note that on the site where the plan has
been requested to be deleted there can be a
significant delay, while it waits for the plan to
be deleted at the other site. It will be sent to each
vCenter Server instance where the plan is
hosted.
Info
Recovery plan was
changed.
PlanEdit
Signaled when an existing plan is edited. Info
Recovery plan has
begun a test.
PlanExecTestBegin
Signaled on the recovery site when a recovery
test is initiated.
Info
Recovery plan has
completed a test.
PlanExecTestEnd
Signaled on the recovery site when a recovery
test has completed.
Info
Recovery plan has
begun a test cleanup.
PlanExecCleanupBegin
Signaled on the recovery site when a test
cleanup is initiated.
Info
Recovery plan has
completed a test
cleanup.
PlanExecCleanupEnd
Signaled on the recovery site when a test
cleanup has completed.
Info
Recovery plan has
begun a recovery.
PlanExecBegin
Signaled on the recovery site when a recovery is
initiated.
Info
Recovery plan has
completed a recovery.
PlanExecEnd
Signaled on the recovery site when a recovery
has completed.
Info
Recovery plan has
begun a reprotect
operation.
PlanExecReprotectBeg
in
Signaled on the recovery site when a reprotect is
initiated.
Info
Recovery plan has
completed a reprotect
operation.
PlanExecReprotectEnd
Signaled on the recovery site when a reprotect
has completed.
Info
Recovery plan is
displaying a prompt
and is waiting for user
input.
PlanPromptDisplay
Signaled on the recovery site when a prompt
step is encountered. The key is a unique
identifier for the prompt.
Info
Recovery plan has
received an answer to
its prompt.
PlanPromptResponse
Signaled on the recovery site when a prompt
step is closed.
Info
Recovery plan has
started to run a
command on the
Site Recovery
Manager Server
machine.
PlanServerCommandBeg
in
Signaled on the recovery site when
Site Recovery Manager has started to run a
callout command on the
Site Recovery Manager Server machine.
Info
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