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3 Select a virtual machine and click Configure.
4 Select Pre-Power On Steps or Post Power On Steps in the left pane, and click Add, Edit, or Remove.
5 If you click Add or Edit, configure the step.
a Select the type of Step to be completed: a step on the SRM server, a step on the virtual machine, or a
prompt.
Complete pre-power on steps on the SRM server.
b In the Name field, type a name for the step.
c In the Content field, enter the commands to be executed.
d (Optional) For steps that are not prompts, modify the Timeout information.
Customize the Recovery of an Individual Virtual Machine
You can configure a virtual machine in a recovery plan to use a prescribed customization specification, or to
execute message or command steps when it is recovered.
Procedure
1 Click Recovery Plans in the left pane, and click the plan that you want to customize.
2 Click the Recovery Steps tab.
3 Click the Virtual Machines tab.
4 Right-click a virtual machine in the list, and click Configure.
5 Click IP Settings.
You can also enter a description of the specification you apply. Only the IP properties from the selected
specification are applied. If you used the dr-ip-customizer.exe command to customize virtual machines
in the recovery plan, you do not need to specify that customization here.
6 Select the appropriate entry to add a message or command step that executes before the machine is
powered on.
7 Select the appropriate entry to add a message or command step that executes after the machine is powered
on.
Message and command steps added to the recovery steps for a virtual machine operate like message and
command steps added to a recovery plan. See “Guidelines for Writing Command Steps,” on page 76.
The customizations that you specify become associated with the protected virtual machine. As a result, the
settings are shared between all recovery plans that apply to this virtual machine.
NOTE If you remove the protection of a virtual machine, all recovery customizations are lost.
Customize IP Properties For an Individual Virtual Machine
You can customize IP settings for individual virtual machines for both the protected site and the recovery site.
IP settings for the recovery site are used during the recovery or test from the protection site to the recovery
site. IP settings for the protection site are used after reprotect during the recovery or test from the original
recovery site to the original protection site. Customization settings are associated with protected virtual
machines. As a result, if the same protected virtual machine is a part of multiple recovery plans, then all
recovery plans will use a single copy of the customization settings.
IP customization in SRM 5.0 supports:
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IPv4 and IPv6 addressing.
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