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 1‑1. Site Recovery Manager Roles
Role
Actions that this
Role Permits Privileges that this Role Includes
Objects in
vCenter
Server
Inventory
that this
Role Can
Access
Site Recovery
Manager
Administrator
The
Site Recovery
Manager
Administrator grants
permission to perform
all
Site Recovery
Manager
configuration and
administration
operations.
n
Configure
advanced settings.
n
Configure
connections.
n
Configure
inventory
preferences.
n
Configure
placeholder
datastores.
n
Configure array
managers.
n
Manage
protection groups.
n
Manage recovery
plans.
n
Perform reprotect
operations.
n
Configure
protection on
virtual machines.
n
Edit protection
groups.
n
Remove
protection groups.
n
View storage
policy objects.
Users with this role
cannot run recoveries.
Only users with the
Site Recovery
Manager Recovery
Administrator role can
perform recoveries.
Site Recovery Manager.Advanced Settings.Modify
Site Recovery Manager.Array Manager.Configure
Site Recovery Manager.Diagnostics.Export
Site Recovery Manager.Inventory Preferences.Modify
Site Recovery Manager.Placeholder
Datastores.Configure
Site Recovery Manager.Protection Group.Assign to
Plan
Site Recovery Manager.Protection Group.Create
Site Recovery Manager.Protection Group.Modify
Site Recovery Manager.Protection Group.Remove
Site Recovery Manager.Protection Group.Remove from
Plan
Site Recovery Manager.Recovery History .View
Deleted Plans
Site Recovery Manager.Recovery Plan.Configure
Site Recovery Manager.Recovery Plan.Create
Site Recovery Manager.Recovery Plan.Modify
Site Recovery Manager.Recovery Plan.Remove
Site Recovery Manager.Recovery Plan.Reprotect
Site Recovery Manager.Recovery Plan.Test
Site Recovery Manager.Remote Site.Modify
Datastore.Replication.Protect
Datastore.Replication.Unprotect.Stop
Resource.Recovery Use
Virtual Machine. SRM Protection.Protect
Virtual Machine. SRM Protection.Stop
Site Recovery Manager.Profile-driven storage.Profile-
driven storage view
n
Virtual
machin
es
n
Datasto
res
n
vCenter
Server
folders
n
Resourc
e pools
n
Site
Recover
y
Manage
r
service
instance
s
n
Networ
ks
n
Site
Recover
y
Manage
r
folders
n
Protecti
on
groups
n
Recover
y plans
n
Array
manage
rs
Site Recovery
Manager Protection
Groups
Administrator
The
Site Recovery
Manager Protection
Groups Administrator
role allows users to
manage protection
groups.
Site Recovery Manager.Protection Group.Create
Site Recovery Manager.Protection Group.Modify
Site Recovery Manager.Protection Group.Remove
Datastore.Replication.Protect
Datastore.Replication.Unprotect.Stop
Resource.Recovery Use
n
Site
Recover
y
Manage
r
folders
Site Recovery Manager Administration
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