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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
2 Change to the C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager\bin directory.
3 Run the dr-ip-reporter.exe command.
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If you have a Platform Services Controller with a single vCenter Server instance, run the following
command:
dr-ip-reporter.exe --cfg ..\config\vmware-dr.xml
--out path_to_report_file.xml
--uri https://Platform_Services_Controller_address[:port]/lookupservice/sdk
This example points dr-ip-reporter.exe to the vmware-dr.xml file of the
Site Recovery Manager Server and generates the report file for the vCenter Server instance that is
associated with the Platform Services Controller at https://Platform_Services_Controller_address.
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If you have a Platform Services Controller that includes multiple vCenter Server instances, you
must specify the vCenter Server ID in the --vcid parameter.
dr-ip-reporter.exe --cfg ..\config\vmware-dr.xml
--out path_to_report_file.xml
--uri https://Platform_Services_Controller_address[:port]/lookupservice/sdk
--vcid vCenter_Server_ID
This example points dr-ip-reporter.exe to the vmware-dr.xml file of the
Site Recovery Manager Server and generates the report file for the vCenter Server instance with the
ID vCenter_Server_ID.
NOTE The vCenter Server ID is not the same as the vCenter Server name.
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To restrict the list of networks to just the ones that a specific recovery plan requires, include the
-plan option on the command line:
dr-ip-reporter.exe --cfg ..\config\vmware-dr.xml
--out path_to_report_file.xml
--uri https://Platform_Services_Controller_address[:port]/lookupservice/sdk
--plan recovery_plan_name
Syntax of the DR IP Customizer Tool
The DR IP Customizer tool includes options that you can use to gather networking information about the
virtual machines that Site Recovery Manager protects. You can also use the options to apply customizations
to virtual machines when they start up on the recovery site.
NOTE This release of Site Recovery Manager allows you to define subnet-level IP mapping rules to
customize IP settings on virtual machines, as well as by using the DR IP Customizer tool. You can use
subnet-level IP mapping rules in combination with DR IP Customizer. For information about how you can
use subnet-level IP mapping rules and DR IP Customizer together, see “Customizing IP Properties for
Multiple Virtual Machines,” on page 95.
You find the dr-ip-customizer.exe executable file in C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vCenter Site
Recovery Manager\bin on the Site Recovery Manager Server host machine. When you run dr-ip-
customizer.exe, you specify different options depending on whether you are generating or applying a
comma-separated value (CSV) file.
dr-ip-customizer.exe
--cfg SRM Server configuration XML
--cmd apply/drop/generate
[--csv Name of existing CSV File]
[--out Name of new CSV file to generate]
--uri https://host[:port]/lookupservice/sdk
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