5.0

8 Click the WINS tab to enter primary and secondary WINS addresses.
The WINS tab is available only when configuring DHCP or IPv4 addresses for Windows virtual machines.
9 Repeat Step 5 through Step 8 to configure recovery or protection settings, if required.
For example, if you configured IP settings for the protected site, you might want to configure settings for
the recovery site.
10 Repeat the configuration process for other NICs, as required, beginning by choosing another NIC as
described in step Step 3.
Report IP Address Mappings for a Protection Group
The IP address map reporter generates an XML document describing the IP properties of protected virtual
machines and their placeholders, grouped by site and recovery plan. This information can help you understand
the network requirements of a recovery plan.
Because the IP address mapping reporter must connect to both sites, you can run the command at either site.
You are prompted to supply the vCenter login credentials for each site when the command runs.
Procedure
1 Open a command shell on the SRM server host at either the protected or recovery site.
2 Change to the C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager\bin directory.
3 Run the dr-ip-reporter.exe command, as shown in this example.
dr-ip-reporter.exe -cfg ..\config\vmware-dr.xml -out c:\tmp\report.xml
To restrict the list of networks to just the ones required by a specific recovery plan, include the -plan
option on the command line, as shown in this example.
dr-ip-reporter.exe -cfg ..\config\vmware-dr.xml -out c:\tmp\report.xml -plan Plan-B
NOTE The command normally asks you to verify the thumbprints presented by the certificates at each
site. You can suppress the verification request by including the -I option.
Understanding Customizing IP Properties for Multiple Virtual Machines
Manually configuring IP settings for many virtual machines at a recovery site can be time consuming and
errors in configuration might occur. To facilitate the configuration process, SRM includes dr-ip-
customizer.exe, which is installed in the bin subdirectory of the SRM installation directory. Use this tool to
create or apply comma separated value (CSV) files containing information about networking configurations.
A challenge of representing virtual machine network configurations in a CSV file is that virtual machine
configurations include hierarchical information. For example, a single virtual machine may contain multiple
adapters, and each adapter may have multiple listings for elements such as gateways. The CSV format does
not provide a system for hierarchical representations. As a result, each row in the CSV file that the DR IP
Customizer generates may provide some or all pertinent information for a virtual machine.
For a virtual machine with a simple network configuration, all information can be included in a single row. In
the case of a more complicated virtual machine, multiple rows might be required. In the example of virtual
machines with multiple network cards or multiple gateways require multiple rows, each row in the CSV file
includes identification information describing which virtual machine and adapter the information applies to.
Information is aggregated together to be applied to the appropriate virtual machine.
To apply IPv6 customizations to virtual machines, the machine running dr-ip-customizer must have IPv6
enabled. IPv6 is not enabled by default on Windows XP or Windows 2003. Attempts to apply IPv6 address
customizations from a machine without IPv6 enabled fail when the DR IP Customizer validates the CSV input.
Site Recovery Manager Administration Guide
82 VMware, Inc.