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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
Because Site Recovery Manager applies inventory mappings for storage policy protection groups when you
run a recovery plan, you cannot configure individual mappings on virtual machines in storage policy
protection groups. Site Recovery Manager always uses the site-wide inventory mappings when you run a
recovery with storage policy protection. Test recovery, planned migration, and disaster recovery of recovery
plans that contain storage policy protection groups fail if inventory mappings are missing.
NOTE If the network mapping is missing but the other mappings are present and you run a test recovery,
Site Recovery Manager uses the auto-generated test network and the test succeeds with a warning. If a test
recovery succeeds with a warning about the missing network mapping, configure the network mapping and
run the test again. Planned migration and disaster recovery do not use the test network and fail if the
network mapping is missing.
If a recovery plan fails due to missing mappings and the protected site is available, configure the missing
mappings and run the plan again. For information about how to configure site-wide inventory mappings,
see “Configure Inventory Mappings,” on page 37.
Temporary Placeholder Mappings for Storage Policy Protection
Site Recovery Manager applies inventory mappings for storage policy protection at the moment that you
run a recovery plan. If you run a recovery plan that contains storage policy protection groups and you have
not configured inventory mappings, or if the objects that you mapped are missing, test recovery, planned
migration, and disaster recovery fail.
You can usually only configure inventory mappings when both the protected site and the recovery site are
available. If a recovery plan with storage policy protection groups fails due to missing mappings and the
protected site is not available, you cannot configure the missing mappings in the normal way. To mitigate
this situation, when a recovery fails due to missing mappings and the protected site is not available,
Site Recovery Manager creates temporary placeholder mappings. Temporary placeholder mappings allow
you to configure the missing mappings so that you can run the recovery successfully when the protected site
is offline. Temporary placeholder mappings are incomplete mappings that identify inventory objects on the
protected site that contain virtual machines that are included in the recovery plan. The temporary
placeholder mappings do not include target objects on the recovery site. When a recovery fails due to
missing mappings, the protected site is unavailable, and Site Recovery Manager creates temporary
placeholder mappings, you can complete the temporary placeholder mappings and rerun the recovery
successfully.
For information about how to configure temporary placeholder mappings, see “Configure Temporary
Placeholder Mappings,” on page 35.
Configure Temporary Placeholder Mappings
If a recovery plan that contains a storage policy protection group fails due to missing mappings and the
protected site is unavailable, Site Recovery Manager creates temporary placeholder mappings. You
complete these temporary placeholder mappings so that the recovery can succeed.
Because Site Recovery Manager applies inventory mappings to virtual machines in storage policy protection
groups at the moment that you run a recovery plan, storage policy protection groups require site-wide
inventory mappings. If site-wide inventory mappings are missing, recovery tests, planned migrations, and
disaster recovery of recovery plans that contain storage policy protection groups fail.
If a recovery plan that contains a storage policy protection group fails due to missing mappings and the
protected site is available, configure the missing mappings in the normal way and run the recovery again.
For information about how to configure site-wide inventory mappings, see “Configure Inventory
Mappings,” on page 37.
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