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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
Reprotect Fails with a vSphere Replication Timeout Error
When you run reprotect on a recovery plan that contains vSphere Replication protection groups, the
operation times out with an error.
Problem
Reprotect operations on recovery plans that contain vSphere Replication protection groups fail with the
error
Operation timed out: 7200 seconds VR synchronization failed for VRM
group <Unavailable>. Operation timed out: 7200 seconds
.
Cause
When you run reprotect, Site Recovery Manager performs an online sync for the vSphere Replication
protection group, which might cause the operation to timeout. The default timeout value is 2 hours.
Solution
Increase the synchronizationTimeout timeout value in Advanced Settings. See “Change vSphere Replication
Settings,” on page 146.
Recovery Plan Times Out While Waiting for VMware Tools
Running a recovery plan fails with a timeout error while waiting for VMware Tools to start.
Problem
Recovery operations fail at the Shutdown VMs step or Waiting for VMware Tools step of a recovery plan.
Cause
Site Recovery Manager uses VMware Tools heartbeat to discover when recovered virtual machines are
running on the recovery site. Recovery operations require that you install VMware Tools on the protected
virtual machines. Recovery fails if you did not install VMware Tools on the protected virtual machines, or if
you did not configure Site Recovery Manager to start without waiting for VMware Tools to start.
Solution
Install VMware Tools on the protected virtual machines. If you do not or cannot install VMware Tools on
the protected virtual machines, you must configure Site Recovery Manager not to wait for VMware Tools to
start in the recovered virtual machines and to skip the guest operating system shutdown step. See “Change
Recovery Settings,” on page 137.
Synchronization Fails for vSphere Replication Protection Groups
During test recovery, planned migration, and reprotect of recovery plans that contain vSphere Replication
protection groups, the virtual machine synchronization step fails with an error.
Problem
Synchronization of virtual machines in a vSphere Replication protection group fails with the error message
Error - VR synchronization failed for VRM group <Unavailable>. The object has already been
deleted or has not been completely created.
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