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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
Inventory Mappings for Array-Based Replication Protection Groups
and vSphere Replication Protection Groups
For array-based protection and vSphere Replication protection, Site Recovery Manager applies inventory
mappings to all virtual machines in a protection group when you create that group.
Site Recovery Manager creates a placeholder virtual machine when you create an array-based or
vSphere Replication protection group. Site Recovery Manager derives the resource assignments for the
placeholder from the site-wide inventory mappings.
If you configure site-wide inventory mappings, you can reapply the inventory mappings to a protection
group whenever necessary, for example if you add new virtual machines to an existing protection group.
If you change the site-wide inventory mappings for a site, the changes do not affect virtual machines that
Site Recovery Manager already protects in an existing protection group. Site Recovery Manager only applies
the new mappings to previously protected virtual machines if you reconfigure protection on them.
Site Recovery Manager cannot protect a virtual machine unless it has valid inventory mappings. However,
configuring site-wide inventory mappings is not mandatory for array-based replication protection groups
and vSphere Replication protection groups. If you create an array-based replication protection group or
vSphere Replication protection group without having defined site-wide inventory mappings, you can
configure each virtual machine in the group individually. You can override site-wide inventory mappings
by configuring the protection of the virtual machines in a protection group. You can also create site-wide
inventory mappings after you create a protection group, and then apply those site-wide mappings to that
protection group.
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For information about configuring site-wide inventory mappings, see “Configure Inventory
Mappings,” on page 37.
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For information about configuring mappings on virtual machines individually, see “Configure
Inventory Mappings for an Individual Virtual Machine in a Protection Group,” on page 58.
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For information about applying site-wide inventory mappings to an existing protection group, see
“Apply Inventory Mappings to All Members of a Protection Group,” on page 57.
Because placeholder virtual machines do not support NICs, you cannot change the network configurations
of placeholder virtual machines. You can only change the network for a placeholder virtual machine in the
inventory mappings. If no mapping for a network exists, you can specify a network when you configure
protection for an individual virtual machine. Changes that you make to the placeholder virtual machine
override the settings that you establish when you configure the protection of the virtual machine.
Site Recovery Manager preserves these changes at the recovery site during the test and recovery.
Inventory Mappings for Storage Policy Protection Groups
For storage policy protection, Site Recovery Manager applies inventory mappings to virtual machines when
you run a recovery plan that contains a storage policy protection group.
With array-based and vSphere Replication protection groups, Site Recovery Manager applies inventory
mappings at the moment that you configure protection on a virtual machine. With storage policy protection
groups, because storage policy protection is dynamic, Site Recovery Manager only applies the inventory
mappings at the moment that you run a recovery plan. Virtual machine placement decisions are made
according to the inventory mappings when a recovery plan runs, so Site Recovery Manager does not create
placeholder virtual machines on the recovery site.
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