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SRM can tolerate certain changes at the recovery site without disruption.
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Moving placeholder virtual machines to a different folder or resource pool.
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Deleting an object for which an inventory map exists.
SRM and the vCenter Server Database
If you update the vCenter Server installation that SRM extends, do not reinitialize the vCenter Server
database during the update. SRM stores identification information about all vCenter Server objects in the
SRM database. If you reinitialize the vCenter Server database, the identification data that SRM has stored no
longer matches identification information in the new vCenter Server instance and objects are not found.
SRM and Other vCenter Server Solutions
You can run other VMware solutions such as vCenter Update Manager, vCenter Server Heartbeat, VMware
Fault Tolerance, vSphere Storage vMotion, vSphere Storage DRS, and vCenter CapacityIQ in deployments
that you protect using SRM. However, use caution before connecting other VMware solutions to the
vCenter Server instance to which the SRM Server is connected. Connecting other VMware solutions to the
same vCenter Server instance as SRM might cause problems when you upgrade SRM or vSphere. Check the
compatibility and interoperability of these solutions with SRM before by consulting the VMware Product
Interoperability Matrixes at http://partnerweb.vmware.com/comp_guide2/sim/interop_matrix.php?.
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