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
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settings for large environments 147, 148
shared recovery site
events 14
isolate user resources 14
permissions 14
share user resources 14
tasks 14
SIOC
disaster recovery 131
planned migration 131
reprotect 131
site status, events 153
Site Recovery Manager, and other vCenter
Server Solutions 122
Site Recovery Manager History Reports 134
snapshots, limitations on recovery of 91
SNMP traps 161
SRA, See storage replication adapter
SRM administrator 13
SRM administration 7
SRM architecture diagram
array-based replication, storage policy
protection 23
array-based replication and vSphere
Replication 30
vSphere Replication 28
SRM core dump parameters 166
SRM roles 17
SRM Server 164, 166
SSO 142
steps, recovery 82
storage, events 157
storage provider, events 157
storage DRS, and array-based replication 123
Storage DRS, with array-based replication 23,
46
storage policies
and array-based replication 23
mappings 39
storage policy protection groups
inventory mappings 34, 37
limitations 50
nonprotected virtual machines 52
piggyback virtual machines 52
prerequisites 49
RDM disks 50
temporary placeholder mappings 35
virtual machine templates 50
storage replication adapter
and array managers 25
to download 24
to install 24
storage vMotion, and array-based
replication 123
Storage vMotion, with array-based replication
23, 46
stretched storage, stretched storage 125
suspended virtual machines, limitations on
recovery oflimitations on recovery of 91
swap files, prevent replication 27
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temporary placeholder mappings, configure 35
test recovery plan, Auto option 67
top-level command steps, create 84
top-level message prompt steps, create 84
troubleshooting
recovery 174
recovery times out 174
Troubleshooting 177
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updated information 9
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vCenter, and Site Recovery Manager 122
vCenter Orchestrator
list of operations 128
SRM plug-in 128
vCenter Server, administrator role 13
vCenter Server administrator 13
vCenter Server Appliance, and SRM 122
vCO
list of operations 128
SRM plug-in 128
virtual machines
dependency 88
vMotion 89
Virtual SAN 28, 72, 122
virtual machine
customize IP properties 107
recovery priority 81, 88
suspend during recovery 87
virtual machine protection status 62
VMware NSX 127
VMware Tools
and recovery 67, 137, 139
and virtual machine priority 88
recovery fails 175
VMware Virtual SAN 122
vmware-dr.xml file 147, 148
VSAN 28, 72
vSphere Replication
administrator role 13
and array-based replication 30
introduction 28
roles 13
Site Recovery Manager Administration
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