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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
4 Click Yes to confirm that you want to apply inventory mappings to all unconfigured virtual machines.
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If Site Recovery Manager successfully applied inventory mappings to the virtual machines, the
status of the protection group is OK.
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If Site Recovery Manager was unable to apply some or all of the inventory mappings, the status of
the virtual machines is Not Configured or Mapping Missing.
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If Site Recovery Manager applied the inventory mappings, but was unable to create placeholders
for virtual machines, the status of the virtual machines is Placeholder VM creation error.
5 (Optional) If the status of the virtual machines is Not Configured or Mapping Missing, check the
inventory mappings and click Configure All again.
6 (Optional) If the status of the virtual machines is Placeholder VM creation error, check the placeholder
datastore mapping and try to recreate the placeholder virtual machines.
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To recreate the placeholder for an individual virtual machine, right-click a virtual machine and
select Recreate Placeholder.
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To recreate the placeholder for several virtual machines, right-click the protection group and select
Restore Placeholder VMs.
Configure Inventory Mappings for an Individual Virtual Machine in a
Protection Group
You can configure the mappings for the virtual machines in an array-based or vSphere Replication
protection group individually. This ability allows you to use different resources on the recovery site for
different virtual machines.
NOTE Site Recovery Manager applies site-wide inventory mappings to virtual machines in storage policy
protection groups when you run a recovery plan. You cannot configure individual mappings on virtual
machines in storage policy protection groups. This information only applies to array-based replication and
vSphere Replication protection groups.
You can configure individual inventory mappings on virtual machines in an array-based or
vSphere Replication protection group even if you configured site-wide inventory mappings. If you did
configure site-wide inventory mappings, you can remove protection from an individual virtual machine and
configure the folder and resource mappings to override the site-wide mappings. You can change the
network mapping for an individual virtual machine without removing protection.
You cannot specify placeholder datastores for individual virtual machines. You must map datastores on the
protected site to placeholder datastores on the recovery site at the site level. To configure a placeholder
datastore, see Configure a Placeholder Datastore .
Prerequisites
You created an array-based or vSphere Replication protection group.
Procedure
1 In the vSphere Web Client, click Site Recovery > Protection Groups.
2 Select the protection group that includes the virtual machine to configure.
3 On the Related Objects tab, click the Virtual Machines tab.
4 Right-click the virtual machine and select Configure Protection.
5 Configure inventory mappings by expanding the resources whose status is Not Configured and
selecting resources on the recovery site.
You can only change the folder, resource pool, and network mappings.
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