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Limitations on Recovery of Snapshots and Linked Clones 37
Create a Recovery Plan 37
Edit a Recovery Plan 38
Remove a Recovery Plan
39
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Test Recovery, Recovery, and Failback 41
Test a Recovery Plan 41
Pause, Resume, or Cancel a Test 42
Run a Recovery Plan 42
Configuring and Executing Failback 43
Review and Execute Post-Failover Cleanup Tasks 44
Reconfigure Replication 44
Reconfigure SRM to Enable Failback to the Protected Site 45
Restore the Original Configuration 45
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Customizing Site Recovery Manager 47
Assign Roles and Permissions 47
Customizing a Recovery Plan 48
Recovery Plan Steps 48
Customize Recovery Plan Steps 51
Customize the Recovery of an Individual Virtual Machine 53
Report IP Address Mappings for a Protection Group 54
Customize IP Properties for a Group of Virtual Machines 54
Configure Protection for a Virtual Machine or Template 57
Repair Placeholder Virtual Machines After a Failed Test Recovery 58
Configure SRM Alarms 59
Working with Advanced Settings 59
Guest Customization Settings 60
Change Recovery Site Settings 60
Change SAN Provider Settings 60
Change Local Site Settings 61
Change Remote Site Settings 62
Avoiding Replication of Paging Files and Other Transient Data 62
Specify a Nonreplicated Datastore for Swapfiles 62
Create a Nonreplicated Virtual Disk for Paging File Storage 63
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Troubleshooting SRM 65
No Replicated Datastores Listed 65
Inconsistent Mount Points Warning When Configuring NFS Arrays 66
Array Script Files Not Found 66
Expected Virtual Machine File Path Cannot Be Found 66
Recovery Plan Time-Out During the Change Network Settings Step 67
Collecting SRM Log Files 68
Collect SRM Server Log Files 68
Collect an SRM Client Log Bundle 68
Index 69
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