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Procedure
1 Open a vSphere Client and connect to the vCenter server at the protected site.
Log in as a vSphere administrator.
2 On the vSphere Client Home page, click the Site Recovery
icon.
3 Right-click Site Recovery in the vSphere Client navigation pane and click Advanced Settings.
4 In the navigation pane of the Advanced Settings window, click a setting category.
5 In the category window, make your changes.
6 Click OK to save your changes and close the Advanced Settings window.
7 Repeat the procedure as needed at the recovery site.
Guest Customization Settings
Change this setting only if instructed to do so by VMware Support.
Change Recovery Site Settings
Use the Advanced Settings Recovery page to adjust default values for time-outs that occur when you test or
run a recovery plan.
Several kinds of time-outs can occur during the execution of recovery plan steps. These time-outs cause the
plan to pause for a specified interval to give the step time to complete.
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Command line timeout – By default, SRM allows 300 seconds for a command step to complete. If a
command step takes longer than 300 seconds, the step terminates and the recovery plan fails with an error.
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Power state change timeout – By default, SRM allows 120 seconds for a virtual machine at the protected
site to respond to a power-down request when testing or running a recovery plan. If the request does not
complete in this interval, the plan skips to the next virtual machine in the list (or to the next step) and
reports a recovery plan error.
Procedure
1 Right-click Site Recovery in the vSphere Client navigation pane and click Advanced Settings.
2 In the navigation pane of the Advanced Settings window, click Recovery.
3 Modify recovery site settings as needed.
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To change the command-line timeout, enter a new value in the
Recovery.calloutCommandLineTimeout field. The new value applies to all command steps.
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To change the power state change timeout, enter a new value in the
Recovery.powerStateChangeTimeout field. The new time-out value applies to all power state
changes to virtual machines at the protected site.
4 Click OK to save your changes and close the Advanced Settings window.
Change SAN Provider Settings
The SAN provider is the interface between SRM and your storage replication adapter (SRA). Some SRAs require
you to make changes to default SAN provider values. You can change the default timeout values and other
behaviors of the SRM SAN provider.
For more information about these values, see the SRA documentation from your array vendor.
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