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Table Of Contents
- Site Recovery Manager Administration Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Administering VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
- Installing and Updating Site Recovery Manager
- Configuring the SRM Database
- About the vSphere Replication Management Database
- Install the SRM Server
- Upgrading SRM
- Install Storage Replication Adapters
- Install the SRM Client Plug-In
- Connect the Sites
- Revert to a Previous Release
- Repair or Modify the Installation of a Site Recovery Manager Server
- Install the SRM License Key
- Establishing Inventory Mappings and Placeholder Datastores
- Configuring Array-Based Protection
- Installing vSphere Replication Servers
- Creating Protection Groups and Replicating Virtual Machines
- Limitations to Protection and Recovery of Virtual Machines
- Create Array-Based Protection Groups
- Create vSphere Replication Protection Groups
- Configure Replication for a Single Virtual Machine
- Configure Replication for Multiple Virtual Machines
- Replicate Virtual Machines Using Physical Couriering
- Move a Virtual Machine to a New vSphere Replication Server
- Apply Inventory Mappings to All Members of a Protection Group
- Recovery Plans and Reprotection
- Customizing Site Recovery Manager
- Customizing a Recovery Plan
- Configure Protection for a Virtual Machine or Template
- Configure Resource Mappings for a Virtual Machine
- Configure SRM Alarms
- Working with Advanced Settings
- Troubleshooting SRM
- Index
Guidelines
Follow these guidelines.
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You can export protected virtual machine information to use as a template, rather than author a new CSV
file manually. The generated file can provide a structure that you can modify to suit the needs of your
environment.
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Some restrictions exist on the ways in which DNS settings are applied.
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In Windows
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DNS Suffix : Global settings for all adapters
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DNS Server : per-adapter setting (If user entered it in 'Adapter ID' 0 row, it will be treated as a
global setting)
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In Linux
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DNS Suffix : Global settings for all adapters
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DNS Server : Global settings for all adapters
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The DR IP Customizer validates that WINS settings are applied only to Windows virtual machines, but it
does not validate NetBIOS settings.
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Use the minimum number of rows possible for each adapter.
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Use either 1 IPv4 or 1 IPv6 per NIC. Virtual machines may support multiple addresses.
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The IPv4 field cannot be left blank. In the IPv4 field you can specify DHCP if a static IPv6 address is to be
used.
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Commas are not allowed in any field.
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The only fields that you can modify for a row where Adapter ID is 0 are DNS Server(s) and DNS Suffix(es).
These values, if specified, are inherited by all other adapters for that VM ID.
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To define properties for a specific adapter on a placeholder virtual machine, create a new row that contains
that virtual machine’s ID in the VM ID column and the adapter ID (the virtual PCI slot in which the adapter
is installed on the placeholder virtual machine) in the Adapter ID column, then specify values for the other
columns.
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To specify more than one value for a column, create an additional row for that adapter and include the
value in the column in that row. To ensure the additional row is associated with the intended virtual
machine, copy the VM ID, VM Name, vCenter Server, Adapter ID column values.
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The NetBIOS column, if not left empty, must contain one of the following strings: disableNetBIOS,
enableNetBIOS, or enableNetBIOSViaDhcp.
Example
In an SRM recovery plan that defines a placeholder virtual machines, the generated file might look like this:
VM ID,VM Name,VC Name,Adapter ID,Primary WINS,Secondary WINS,IP Address,Subnet
Mask,Gateway(s),DNS Server(s),DNS Suffix(es)
protected-vm-10301,example-vm-3-win,vc04.eng.example.com,0,,,,,,,
The file consists of a header row that defines the meaning of each column, and a single row for each placeholder
virtual machine found in the recovery plan. All the other columns are empty.
After creating the csv file, the contents can be modified to configure settings for three network adapters for the
virtual machine protected-vm-10301.
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