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VM's at Recovery takes longer times to power on after recovery

Funtoosh — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:06:21 GMT

We had performed DR failover this weekend using SRM1.0.1 /NetAPP ISCIS LUN/41VM/4 ESX host running 3.5 1999xx at the recovery site. Everything came backonline as I have defined but here is my trouble began.

We had 4 ESX host into cluster and I power off all the VM. When I tried to power on it was taking huge time than normal. I then remove all the cluster and tried to power on individual VM on each of the esx host and still it was talking longer time. Not sure nothing changed. Enough resources but this process was talking longer time. Is it normal when you try to power on VM on snapped lun takes longer time?
I found following error message in the vmkernal ,not sure how much it was relevant though

Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.728 cpu0:1301)FSS: 378: Failed with status I/O error for f530 28 2 4ad6e5d9 6b885ba3 1f003e01 a0dc5829 4 1 0 0 0 0 0
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.745 cpu0:1024)StorageMonitor: 196: vmhba2:0:17:0 status = 2/0 0x3 0x27 0x0
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.745 cpu3:1301)FS3: 4702: Writing HB addr 3ede00: I/O error
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.745 cpu3:1301)WARNING: FS3: 3406: Failed with bad000a
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.745 cpu3:1301)FSS: 378: Failed with status I/O error for f530 28 1 4ad6e5b2 11252b 1f00e7b1 a0dc5829 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.745 cpu3:1301)WARNING: Fil3: 1787: Failed to reserve volume f530 28 1 4ad6e5b2 11252b 1f00e7b1 a0dc5829 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.745 cpu3:1301)FSS: 378: Failed with status I/O error for f530 28 2 4ad6e5b2 11252b 1f00e7b1 a0dc5829 4 1 0 0 0 0 0
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.764 cpu0:1024)StorageMonitor: 196: vmhba2:0:19:0 status = 2/0 0x3 0x27 0x0
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.764 cpu2:1301)FS3: 4702: Writing HB addr 3ede00: I/O error
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.764 cpu2:1301)WARNING: FS3: 3406: Failed with bad000a
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.764 cpu2:1301)FSS: 378: Failed with status I/O error for f530 28 1 4ad6e625 782c12f6 1f00630a a0dc5829 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.764 cpu2:1301)WARNING: Fil3: 1787: Failed to reserve volume f530 28 1 4ad6e625 782c12f6 1f00630a a0dc5829 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nov 21 12:52:55 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:36.764 cpu2:1301)FSS: 378: Failed with status I/O error for f530 28 2 4ad6e625 782c12f6 1f00630a a0dc5829 4 1 0 0 0 0 0
Nov 21 12:52:57 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:38.230 cpu2:1301)VSCSI: 4060: Creating Virtual Device for world 1302 vscsi0:0 (handle 8222)
Nov 21 12:52:57 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:38.362 cpu0:1301)World: vm 1304: 901: Starting world vmware-vmx with flags 44
Nov 21 12:52:57 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:38.363 cpu0:1304)World: vm 1305: 901: Starting world vmware-vmx with flags 44
Nov 21 12:52:57 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:38.363 cpu0:1304)World: vm 1306: 901: Starting world vmware-vmx with flags 44
Nov 21 12:52:57 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:38.364 cpu2:1302)Init: 1057: Received INIT from world 1302
Nov 21 12:52:57 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:38.468 cpu1:1304)World: vm 1307: 901: Starting world vmware-vmx with flags 44
Nov 21 12:52:57 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 2:00:54:38.471 cpu1:1303)Init: 1057: Received INIT from world 1303

I was still able to power on VM

VMware SRM 1.0 : failed to configure Array managers in SRM in secure mode.

justyouguess — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:39:41 GMT

In My VMware SRM setup. We are trying to do bidirectional SRM. Like Site I and SIte II will act as Protected and recovery site vice versa in failover. But it seems to me that when I keep my ESX Host which has solution enabler installed & windows SRM host which also has ENMC solution enabler installed ( Symclient). When I use non-secure mode to configure arraymanagers, I am able to add/configure array managers but when I chose secure mode it gives me error that Management system error while configuring array manager ( pls. see attached screenshot for details).

To change secure mode on ESX solution enabler host as well as windows Solution enbaler ( which I eventually installed on SRM host itself), I do as below.

On ESX solution enabler host: /var/symapi/config/options...changing secure mode to nonsecure and vice varsa.

On windows solution enabler host: C:\Program Files\EMC\SYMAPI\config\netcnfg ...changing secure mode to nonsecure and vice varsa.

But when I chose secure mode to configure array manager, it is giving me error as specified in screenshot, with non-secure mode. Array managers get configured.

Now I am confused what is wrong with secure mode in my setup ?

VMware Site Recovery Manager Service will not start Error 1067

WAMTech — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:54:18 GMT

We have ESX 3.5 Update 4 and we are using SRM 1.01 Update 3.

For some reason after completly configuring SRM including the DR IP customizer I went on to create my Recovery plan and after that my SRM Service in the DR site does not want to start. There were a few things I noticed while finishing up the configuration. After running the DR IP Customizer script I checked the customization of some of the VMs and I noticed the customization for each VM was inserted correctly. After that I went ahead and ran through creating my recovery plan and after it finished I checked the customization section again and the customizations were gone. I can see them in the DR site VC but they are not associated with the correct VM as they were right after I ran the customizer script. Now I can't even start the SRM Service in the DR site.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

SRM 4.0 versus Symantec Pure Disk w/ VCB (or vSphere DR)

wallabyfan2 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:54:53 GMT

Hello Community

Can anyone point me in the direction of resources which compare the advantages and disadvantages of VMware SRM 1.0/4.0 versus Symantec Pure Disk w/ VCB (or vSphere DR)?

I have a customer who is thinking of doing Symantec Pure Disk but I am encouraging not do based on the fact that SRM is an automated fail-over solution with granularity and ability to Test Recovery Plan.

What are the pros of Pure Disk? I'm not so sure Pure Disk will even scrape the surface of the functionality found in SRM.

Issue with DNS_Update.cmd not deleting the A record

damianpb — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:33:53 GMT

I have configured the servers with the necessary tools. I have written a batch file with call to the cmd and all the necessary switches. When you run the batch file it executes the dns_update command. As you watch it the syntax reports that the A record is deleted and then added and the command completes successfully. However, when you go check the forward lookup zone in DNS the old A record remains while the new a record has been added as well as the reverse lookup. Not sure why it tells me the old record has been deleted when it hasn't. Has anyone seen this issue?

what's TCP port for SRM connect to EMC Celerra ?

chaoyuan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:05:04 GMT

Dear All,

Could you help to point out which ports need to open throught firewall?

I guest following direction need to define:

1. (VC+SRM) ---> local site Celeraa

2. (VC+SRM) ---> local ESX

3. remote (VC+SRM) --> remote ESX

4. remote (VC+SRM) --> local ESX

note: VC and SRM are the same computer

Thank you for any input

SRM 4 WSDL

dmedvitz — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:26:19 GMT

I've been attempting to use the WSDL that came with SRM4 to create some powershell scripts to automate recovery plan testing. When I use the standard MS tools to compile the .NET class, everything appears to work as expected. When I attempt to create an instance of the SrmBinding, however, it hangs forever. I've also attempted to import the wsdl file into a workflow app that I have with no success (it throws an invalid index error).

I created a .Net class with the old SRM WSDL file, and it works great, so far.

Has anyone had any luck with the WSDL from SRM4?

Thanks

Dave

SRM Batch-IP Script is not populating the Custom Specification, suggestions.

CrisRobinson — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:41:53 GMT

All -

We have encountered an interesting issue with the custom ip batch program. Essentially we run the process, and the customer specification CSV looks good and when we browse the custom specifications they are there. We notice however when we look at the protection group and the specific VM the custom specification is empty. The enclosed screenshot shows the empty custom spec. If we Browse we see all the custom specs for all the VM's.

we have done this numerous times before at other customers without issue.

We are on SRM UPdate 1 patch 3 ( 1.0.1.2587)

Thanks

Cris

VMs with snapshots "not supported"?

jftwp — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:13:51 GMT

I've been sifting through my piles of product documentation, whitepapers, release notes and so forth to find exactly where I could have sworn I read something to this effect, but cannot. Is anyone aware of any limitation of VMs (on protected site) that have 1 or 2 snapshots within them, and having those snapshots within the recovery site as well?

We don't keep snapshots for more than a day or so as a good-little-admin best practice (delta files left alone for a while never a good thing). Just wondering about this----I SWEAR I read something, somewhere, about VMs (protected site) that have snapshots within, NOT being supported with SRM 1.x.

(We're about to configured the array managers, and before our first 'test' I wanted to tie up a few loose ends/questions and this is one of them --- my remaining questions are array vendor specific... thanks!)

Celerra replicator adapter version 1

zenariga — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:20:33 GMT

Hello,

I try to create a test environment using VMWare SRM but I have a VI3 environment. I can download the SRM 1.0.1 but I can't download the Celerra Replicator Adapter version 1. I try to use the version 4 but return a error.

Anyone have a Celerra Replicator Adapter version 1 to send me?

Thanks,

"Message exceeds database maximum string length."

adublin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:22:36 GMT

We're trying to run a test but keep running into this issue. The support person we spoke to said that there is something in our configuration/naming convention that is too long.

However; I found posts saying this error is harmless and not really the cause.

Any insight we be much appreciated.

SRM fails to delete Snapshots at the conclusion of Testing a recovery plan

houghtonj — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:38:01 GMT

Environment is as follows:

HP EVA 4400 replicated to HP EVA 6100
ESX 3.5 U4
SRM 4.0

The production ESX environment is housed on the EVA4400 which is replicated to the 6100 via continuous access. All recovery plans (testing and execution) function as expected when moving from the 4400 to the 6100.

After performing the failover via SRM to the EVA6100, and all steps noted in the SRM Admin Guide were performed to prep for a failback using SRM to the EVA4400. The recovery plan tests executed without any problems, however if run a second time would fail. After looking at the EVA, it was apparent that SRM did not delete the snapshots which it created during the first test. The SRM logs indicated that it was successful however when looking at the EVA adapter log, and at the EVA itself, it was noted that the snapshot could not be deleted as the LUN was presented to a host.

As I mentioned, there were no issues with running the test plans going the other way and snapshots were created, presented, unpresented, and deleted without any problems by SRM. There isn't much to configuring the EVA adapter or SRM down to this detail so I'm not sure of where to go from here. I'm not an EVA expert but would assume that there may be a problem on the 4400 that is preventing the SRM XML scripts from completing, or perhaps there are are some incompatibilities between the scripts that SRM is using with the 4400?

Any ideas would be appreciated. Below is the excerpt from the hpsrmeva.log.

~~10/06/09 - 15:00:02~~ CHsvElementManager::GetApi:GetAPI indicates support for CV
~~10/06/09 - 15:00:02~~ CHsvElementManager::GetApi:In GetApi m_pCVApi is00858290
~~10/06/09 - 15:00:02~~ CHsvCVClientAPI::SendCommand:The retry count is set to 20
~~10/06/09 - 15:00:02~~ CHsvCVClientAPI::SendAPICommand:CVCReturnCode OF CVAPI_CommandEx is[0]
~~10/06/09 - 15:00:02~~ CHsvCVClientAPI::SendAPICommand:CVAPI_CommandEx returns success and response is valid
~~10/06/09 - 15:00:02~~ CHsvCVClientAPI::SendAPICommand:Response buffer received from CV: START
~~10/06/09 - 15:00:02~~ CHsvCVClientAPI::SendAPICommand:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><Envelope><Header><embuild>090413</embuild><emversion>9.00.01</emversion><platform>HBM</platform><version>8.00</version></Header><Body><NsaServerOperationResponse><object><objectid>08000710B4080560B7840E000060000000000300</objectid><objectname>EVA4400</objectname><objecttype>storagecell</objecttype><objectwwn>5001-4380-04C5-D600</objectwwn><objecthexuid>6005-08b4-000e-84b7-0000-6000-0003-0000</objecthexuid><uid>08000710B4080560B7840E000060000000000300</u
~~10/06/09 - 15:00:02~~ CHsvCVClientAPI::SendAPICommand:d><operationalstate>good</operationalstate><operationalstatedetail>initialized_ok</operationalstatedetail><licensestate>good</licensestate><comments/><hexuid>6005-08b4-000e-84b7-0000-6000-0003-0000</hexuid><objectparentuid>0000000000000000000000000000000000000000</objectparentuid><objectparenthexuid>0000-0000-0000-0000-0000-0000-0000-0000</objectparenthexuid><objectparentid>0000000000000000000000000000000000000000</objectparentid><controllertime><day>06</day><month>10</month><year>2009</year><ho
~~10/06/09 - 15:00:02~~ CHsvCVClientAPI::SendAPICommand:r>15</hour><minute>00</minute><second>01</second></controllertime><systemtype>HSV300</systemtype><totalstoragespace>18089.37</totalstoragespace><usedstoragespace>7769.28</usedstoragespace><availablestoragespace>10320.09</availablestoragespace><osunitid>0</osunitid><deviceadditionpolicy>manual</deviceadditionpolicy><volumereplacementdelay>60</volumereplacementdelay><firmwareversion>09501200</firmwareversion><nscfwversion>CR13DFlep-09501200</nscfwversion><basiclicensed>true</basiclicensed><drmlice
~~10/06/09 - 15:00:02~~ CHsvCVClientAPI::SendAPICommand:sed>true</drmlicensed><snaplicensed>true</snaplicensed><statestring>0,27,0,41,26,0,0,21,8,5,10,8</statestring><managementhostname>SMA</managementhostname><managementhostip>10.1.1.75</managementhostip><storagesystemcontrollercachememory>1787</storagesystemcontrollercachememory><storagesystemcontrollermemory>4096</storagesystemcontrollermemory><storagecellconnections><storagecell><objectid>08000710B40805604194060000C0000000000200</objectid><connectionstatus>good</connectionstatus><objecthex
~~10/06/09 - 15:00:02~~ CHsvCVClientAPI::SendAPICommand:id>6005-08b4-0006-9441-0000-c000-0002-0000</objecthexuid></storagecell></storagecellconnections></object><status><statuscode>0</statuscode><statusdescription>Command completed successfully.</statusdescription><nsatrace/><trace><entry>XMLInterfaceTransaction::Initialize(string) - XML string set.</entry><entry>NsaXMLInterface::ExecuteXMLCommand - XML validated.</entry><entry>NsaXMLInterface::ExecuteXMLCommand - Command built.</entry><entry>NsaXMLInterface::GetProperties - Object Properties fetched
~~10/06/09 - 15:00:02~~ CHsvCVClientAPI::SendAPICommand:</entry><entry>NsaXMLInterface::ExecuteXMLCommand - Bridge command executed.</entry></trace><statistics><totaltime>156</totaltime><parsetime>0</parsetime><bridgecommand>110</bridgecommand><buildresponse>0</buildresponse><commandmap>0</commandmap></statistics></status></NsaServerOperationResponse></Body></Envelope>
~~10/06/09 - 15:00:02~~ CHsvCVClientAPI::SendAPICommand:Response buffer received from CV: END
~~10/06/09 - 15:00:02~~ CHsvCVClientAPI::SendCommand:returned with statusCodehttp://0 - Command completed successfully.
~~10/06/09 - 15:00:02~~ CHsvStorageCell::UpdateStateRefreshTable:EVA4400: Current State 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
~~10/06/09 - 15:00:02~~ CHsvStorageCell::UpdateStateRefreshTable:EVA4400: New State 0,27,0,41,26,0,0,21,8,5,10,8
~~10/06/09 - 15:00:02~~ SrmTestFailoverStop::deleteOldSnapshots:Info: previously created SRM snapshot found
~~10/06/09 - 15:00:02~~ SrmTestFailoverStop::deleteOldSnapshots:Info: Snapshot belongs to input LUN \Virtual Disks\1\VMFS\ESX02
~~10/06/09 - 15:00:02~~ SrmTestFailoverStop::deleteOldSnapshots:Info: Deleting \Virtual Disks\1\VMFS\ESX02\HP_SRM_SNAP-LUN-06Oct09 14.55.56
~~10/06/09 - 15:00:02~~ CHsvElementManager::GetApi:GetAPI indicates support for CV
~~10/06/09 - 15:00:02~~ CHsvElementManager::GetApi:In GetApi m_pCVApi is00858290
~~10/06/09 - 15:00:02~~ CHsvCVClientAPI::SendCommand:The retry count is set to 20
~~10/06/09 - 15:00:02~~ CHsvCVClientAPI::SendAPICommand:CVCReturnCode OF CVAPI_CommandEx is[0]
~~10/06/09 - 15:00:02~~ CHsvCVClientAPI::SendAPICommand:CVAPI_CommandEx returns success and response is valid
~~10/06/09 - 15:00:02~~ CHsvCVClientAPI::SendAPICommand:Response buffer received from CV: START
~~10/06/09 - 15:00:02~~ CHsvCVClientAPI::SendAPICommand:<Envelope><Header><embuild>090413</embuild><emversion>9.00.01</emversion><platform>HBM</platform><version>8.00</version></Header><Body><NsaServerOperationResponse><status><statuscode>600019</statuscode><statusdescription>Error cannot delete object.</statusdescription><nsatrace><entry><statuscode>42</statuscode><statusdescription>Logical disk Presented</statusdescription></entry></nsatrace><trace><entry>XMLInterfaceTransaction::Initialize(string) - XML string set.</entry><entry>NsaXMLInterface::E
~~10/06/09 - 15:00:02~~ CHsvCVClientAPI::SendAPICommand:ecuteXMLCommand - XML validated.</entry><entry>NsaXMLInterface::ExecuteXMLCommand - Command built.</entry><entry>NsaXMLInterface::DeleteObject - Storage Object Broker delete object failed.</entry></trace><statistics><totaltime>31</totaltime><parsetime>0</parsetime><bridgecommand>31</bridgecommand><buildresponse>0</buildresponse><commandmap>0</commandmap></statistics></status></NsaServerOperationResponse></Body></Envelope>
~~10/06/09 - 15:00:02~~ CHsvCVClientAPI::SendAPICommand:Response buffer received from CV: END
~~10/06/09 - 15:00:02~~ CHsvVirtualDisk::Delete:returned StatusCodehttp://600019 - Error cannot delete object. -- NsaStatus42 - Logical disk Presented
~~10/06/09 - 15:00:02~~ SrmTestFailoverStop::deleteOldSnapshots:Error: Could not delete \Virtual Disks\1\VMFS\ESX02\HP_SRM_SNAP-LUN-06Oct09 14.55.56. Aborting testFailover operation

SRA adapter for EMC recoverpoint SRM 4.0

sunvmman — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:12:55 GMT

I do not see the EMC recoverpoint SRA release for srm 4.0

anybody know when that will be released ?

SRM 4.0 Available for Download

hkrishnan — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:26:42 GMT

We are excited to announce general availability of SRM 4.0 today which includes vSphere 4.0 as well as NFS support. Thanks for your patience and support.

You can download SRM 4.0 from http://www.vmware.com/download/srm/

More information on release is available at

http://www.vmware.com/products/srm/resource.html

http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/srm_pubs.html

Here are links to VMware blog posts on SRM 4.0 general availability, quick tour of new features as well as upgrading to SRM 4.0.

http://blogs.vmware.com/uptime/2009/10/srm-40-get-it-now.html

http://blogs.vmware.com/uptime/2009/10/a-quick-tour-of-srm-40.html

http://blogs.vmware.com/uptime/2009/10/srm-40-is-here-the-wait-for-vsphere-and-nfs-support-is-over.html

Clariion Consistency Group name - length limitations bug - See here for info

steve31783 — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:15:25 GMT

Test failover ran fine.. actual failover "failover of luns failed"..

Noticed in the logs that the name of the CG assigned seems to be cutoff...

1 002828 003828--10/05 10:48:10 327----Failover.cpp @000070 PromoteConsistancyGroups-- CG_for_LUN235_VM_SATA_30B_Mirro(Array:APM000) normal promote failed. Error Details: The Mirror Group name specified cannot be found

1 002828 003828--10/05 10:48:10 327----Failover.cpp @000075 PromoteConsistancyGroups-- Waiting for 50734 ms before another normal promote

1 002828 003828--10/05 10:49:01 063----Failover.cpp @000077 PromoteConsistancyGroups-- Trying another normal promote for Consistancy Group CG_for_LUN235_VM_SATA_30B_Mirro

Is this a function of logging, or is there a maximum # of characters for the name of the CG?

SRA Adapter HP is compatible with SRM 4

PetervandenBosch — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:53:30 GMT

Hallo,

it is always a long search to find the right software in the HP site. I found the SRM 4.0 SRA Adapter withsome nice updates! Support for Command View EVA 9.1 so also the LUN shrinking possibility is available!

http://bit.ly/21uZdf

regards, Peter van den Bosch

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IPv6 and SRM

Timothy@Corismo — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:02:53 GMT

Hi all,

One of our customers is asking about ipv6 support in SRM. I couldn't find anything in the official guide nor unofficially (giyf). It also seems a problem in changing the ip on the fly cause you can add them in the customization specifications. So what are your thoughts?

Thanks in advance,

Timothy

Problem creating protection group

ocheeslice — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:00:36 GMT

Problem Location:
Site Recovery --> Protection Group --> Create --> Named Group EQL6 --> Select Datastore Group <PROBLEM HERE>

*Possible reason/What I did: *Probably not related**
A VM was on EQL6 --> cold migrated it to VRANGEROS while it was still protected in EQL6 -- Chose Move to new Volume.

When I noticed a problem and what I've tried:
I tried to set up a protection group for EQL8 and found that it was on the same line as EQL6. So I deleted the EQL6 protection group and tried to recreate it but EQL6 and EQL8 are still tied together. <SEE SCREEN SHOT> I was able to set up a protection group for VRanger as the collection between the data and the OS.

EQL6 and EQL8 were created months apart, are not a collection and should not be showing up like this. How do I get EQL 6 and EQL8 separate? They are separate in the Datastore list.

Any Suggestions?

Not enough SRM Datastore groups

brianroehm — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:36:10 GMT

I have an issue with SRM where I am trying to create protection groups for individual servers but all of my servers are getting lumped into two datasource groups.

Here's a Screenshot : http://imgur.com/yBCDN.jpg , http://imgur.com/TIuAy.jpg

The two drives that I have red arrows pointed at are test volumes. They are both directly mapped to the ESX servers and have no other associations to any other virtual machine or volumes. ONe is VMFS and the other is to test SRM + RDM, not currently mapped. My understanding and what I've seen in the past is that these volumes should be in their own datastore group unless they have something shared with the other VM's. I checked swapfiles but they are set to stay with the virtual machine on its datastore. Any ideas?

SRM - NETAPP - Problem with Process FailBack

AndreasKunz — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:18:44 GMT

Hi,

I have two storage NETAPP environnement FAS3020 and FAS2050 with DATA ONTAPP 7.3 and 7.3.1.

Storage source is FAS3020 with 3 ESX VI3.5U4
Storage recovery is FAS2050 with 2 ESX VI3.5U4

When I take the "Recovery Test" and "Recovery Plan (RUN)", All is correct ! Perfect Solution !

But when I want take a FAILBACK process, I have a problem with the SRA. In Fact, I my NETAPP environnement, my ESX server have 2 groupe Initiator (One for BootSan and One for present LUN-DATASTORE).

the error process is a SRA BUG !

Error: Non-fatal error information reported during execution of array integration script: testFailover Output: Starting script Test-Failover-start Collecting igroup information igroup ESX17 has initiator 2100001b321b2573 and type FC igroup ESX17 has initiator 2100001b321bd86e and type FC igroup ESX16 has initiator 2100001b321b957d and type FC igroup ESX16 has initiator 2100001b321b5172 and type FC igroup ESX15 has initiator 2100001b321b2571 and type FC igroup ESX15 has initiator 2100001b321b537c and type FC igroup VMMWARE_Cluster has initiator 2100001b321b2571 and type FC igroup VMMWARE_Cluster has initiator 2100001b321b957d and type FC igroup VMMWARE_Cluster has initiator 2100001b321b2573 and type FC igroup VMMWARE_Cluster has initiator 2100001b321b537c and type FC igroup VMMWARE_Cluster has initiator 2100001b321b5172 and type FC igroup VMMWARE_Cluster has initiator 2100001b321bd86e and type FC skipping igroup VMMWARE_Cluster since its ostype is not vmware Checking existence of Lun /vol/VOLPROD_PRA1/LUNTESTPRA1 Lun /vol/VOLPROD_PRA1/LUNTESTPRA1 exists Creating test Clone volume testfailoverClone_nss_v10745371_VOLPROD_PRA1 Mapping Lun /vol/testfailoverClone_nss_v10745371_VOLPROD_PRA1/LUNTESTPRA1 Mapped Lun /vol/testfailoverClone_nss_v10745371_VOLPROD_PRA1/LUNTESTPRA1 to ESX16 Mapped Lun /vol/testfailoverClone_nss_v10745371_VOLPROD_PRA1/LUNTESTPRA1 to VMMWARE_Cluster Mapped Lun /vol/testfailoverClone_nss_v10745371_VOLPROD_PRA1/LUNTESTPRA1 to ESX15 Mapped Lun /vol/testfailoverClone_nss_v10745371_VOLPROD_PRA1/LUNTESTPRA1 to ESX17 Onlining Lun /vol/testfailoverClone_nss_v10745371_VOLPROD_PRA1/LUNTESTPRA1 LUN already mapped to initiator(s) in this group Onlining Lun /vol/testfailoverClone_nss_v10745371_VOLPROD_PRA1/LUNTESTPRA1 failed Test-Failover-start completed with errors Generate EMS event in filer Generating EMS event in filer succeeded Error: .

But I don't change my presentation, i have 50 LUN !

Please Help me for this problem.

thank's, Andréas (VCP with significant experience SRM).

I have see two post with the similar problem :

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/225803
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/197159

thank's

Setup 'Test' SRM on shared ESX box

NYSDHCR — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:12:26 GMT

Here is my scenerio. I would like to setup an eval SRM in a remote location to test product. I currently have two ESX 3.5 U2 host at that location. One has 4 vms on it, the other ESX host has two on it. They are not part of an ESX cluster. I would migrate all vms from one ESX host to the other. Could I use one of the ESX hosts as a 'Protected' host for SRM eval, but I would need to migrate the vms from the other ESX host to the SRM ESX host in case of an ESX host failure. Is that possible to do that?

Thanks

SRM TEST Domain Controller Time Issue

DAbowitt — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:44:50 GMT

Background, we have 2 DC's and 6 other primary servers in our SRM plan. When we test our SRM plan we bring online our first DC as a priority server before any other server loads. When we console into the DC that is inside the DR bubble its time service is off and is throwing off the proper loading of AD. Its time is showing as the last replica that we completed by the SAN. I run the net stop/start W32time service on DC1 and approximately 2 minutes later the time service syncronizes with an external time source as it should. I then bring online as a normal server the second DC. When DC2 comes online and I console into it its time service is not correct and not syncronized with DC1. Lots of AD issues because of the time service disconnect. I run the net stop/start w32time command on DC2 and it does not syncronize. Event log indicates not getting valid time from DC1. I go back to DC1 and again reissue W32time commands and event logs shows syncronizing correctly. I then go back to DC2 and run the w32time command and it works but time doesn't update for about 5 minutes. Our DC's are Windows Server 2003 R2 VM's.

As time service on DC1 and 2 are showing and reporting correctly I then start the loading of the remaining six servers. After they have loaded all except my Exchange server load with proper time. The other servers are File/SQL 2005, Web etc... The Exchange 2003 server shows the time of the last replica. I use the Net stop/start 32time and it resets its time after about 3-5 minutes and then I have to manually start the Exchange services.

SRM is supposed to be an automated DR process but I am having to go through manual hoops to get our environment to sync properly as indicated above.

Any scripts or other recommendations that can be recommended to address this issue.

One possible solution is to change our production environment DC's to use Time from the ESX server via the VMWare tools but then I will have to change our ESX environment around to get valid time from some time source. Not optimal and from what I understand not recommended.

Different Replication Methods for Same Array

Lofty — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:36:52 GMT

Hey all,

Is it possible to utilise different replication techniques from a single array in Prod to a single array in DR and get SRM to handle it?

Scenario -

I've got a EMC CX3-80 in Prod and a CX3-80 in DR.

Classified LUNs into Gold and Silver class.

Gold LUNs are currently being replicated using RecoverPoint and are successfully failing back-and-forth with SRM.

The Silver LUNs are currently replicating using EMC MirrorView/S.

The issue is, when I go to configure the Array Manager at the Protected side for the MirrorView SRA, it gives me the following error -

"Could not add array "50:06:01:60:B9:A0:1D:47:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00".
Identical storage array with port '50:06:01:60:B9:A0:1D:47' already exists"

Now, I can find plenty of stuff that states you can install multiple SRAs to handle different types of replication, but can SRM manage different replicaiton methods from the same array?

Any help with this one would be appreciated.

Thanks

Lofty

SRM & Nexus 1000v (Your thoughts)

thomps01 — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:15:50 GMT

I know SRM doesn't work with vSphere yet & I know we need vSphere to use the Nexus 1000v, but I'm working through a future deployment plan and can't get my head around something so thought I'd share what I know with the community to see if I'm right.

When a virtual machine is plugged into the Nexus 1k switch, the port assignment is automatic and it's not possible to predict where a VM will land . Because you don't know which port the VM will be connected through, you can't pre-prepare by assigning a profile or enabling the port in advance.

My question is how this will work with SRM? If you imagine you have a Nexus 1k distributed switch running at site A with 100 virtual machines connected, when I protect these VM's using SRM do the Nexus 1k ports at site B get assigned at this stage or only when the VM's are actually powered up? Either way, I'll need a network administrator to enable each port as its assigned and apply profiles. If the port assignment is aligned during the initial protection stage, then brilliant. It adds another admin layer, but it's perfectly manageable. If however, the ports aren't assigned until a failover is actually invoked then bang goes my automated recovery as I'll be sitting around waiting for network admins to enable ports.

If you're familiar with the Nexus 1000v, maybe you'll be able to add some value here.

SRM 4 will be out soon and we can actually test this, but until then I'm at the mercy of theory!

Message/Command before any of the pre-canned Steps in SRM

jcarrieri — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:16:46 GMT

Can I put a Message/Command before any of the pre-canned Steps in SRM -- I would like to add a message after all the Low/Normal VMs have been shut down so the user can verify the associeted physicals have ben shutdown as well ---

I know I can add it to a VM be protected -- jjust wasn't sure I could modify the actual pre-canned steps to add a Message to

Thanks

SRM "cannot execute scripts" "RSVmGuestShutdown"

Rockapot — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:39:37 GMT

Hi all,

I am hoping someone here will be able to help with this one..
Basically I am using SRM to do a Site Failover. All is working fine with the exception of a few VM's which give the following error message during the Test Recovery Process (as shown in the attached screenshot).

The SRM log output for this error is also shown below:

~~2009-08-27 12:02:51.180 'RSVmGuestShutdown-194238-Task' 5672 warning~~ YieldableRecoveryTask::DoRun: Unexpected MethodFault (vmodl.fault.SystemError) {
2 dynamicType = <unset>,
2 reason = "Cannot execute scripts",
2 msg = "A general system error occurred: Cannot execute scripts"
2 }
~~2009-08-27 12:02:51.180 'RSVmGuestShutdown-194238-Task' 5672 error~~ HandleThrow RSVmGuestShutdown-194238-101 fault (vmodl.fault.SystemError) {
2 dynamicType = <unset>,
2 reason = "Cannot execute scripts",
2 msg = "A general system error occurred: Cannot execute scripts"

The VM's with the issues are Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition x32 SP2. These are running on ESX 3.5.0 153875 and have VMware Tools 3.5.0 build-153875 installed.
I have not been able to find any extensive information on the web in regards to this issue so any help is appreciated.

Carl

snaps generate I/O errors in COS

pfuhli — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:39:01 GMT

Hi there,

we are on the way implementing SRM in our infrastructure. There are some problems with alarms etc. but it seems that we have also a problem with two snap sessions from our primary storage system.
These snaps are presented to the ESX hosts by the storage system nevertheless we did not switch to failover mode.
Because these snaps are presented to the host both of them are recognized as a datastore named "snap-...."

Our storage:
primary: EMC CX3-80
secondary: EMC CX3-40

Version:
ESX 3.5U4
VC 2.5 U4/U5
SRM 1.0.1.2587

Does anyone has an idea what we made wrong?

Thanks in advance!

daniel

Does SRM need to be SAN attached

Hypnotoad — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:02:14 GMT

I'm totaly new to SRM. I'm setting up a server now and was wondering if it needs to have a FC HBA connected to my SAN? The server will have a local RAID1 array for locating the OS and application files.

Edit: Nevermind. I found the answer here.

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/221673?tstart=0

--Patrick

SRM and timeout for shutdown VMs

krles1 — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:21:37 GMT

Hello, is there any way to change this timeout when we run recovery plan ? Some VMs did not power off in timeout so they are powered off in hard way. Can i change this timeout ? I found sometihng in documentation, but in file i didnt found section either parametr.

Thanks

Michal Krlin

documentation:

By default, SRM reports an error if a request to change the power state of a virtual

machine (power down, for example) does not complete within 120 seconds. To change

the power state time‐out, edit the vmware-dr.xml configuration file and change the

value of the powerStateChangeTimeout parameter to specify a new time‐out value in

seconds.

*

Issue with guest customization - No IP change

SkyC — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:23:32 GMT

Using the customization wizard to configure the IP addresses on a particular host, and getting the error below in the logs. It is working successfully on 15 other VM's, but just having the issue with one host in particular. I've validated that the MACAddress' below match what is showing in the VIC, as well as within the OS.

Any ideas?

Creating object for MAC: 00:50:56:ac:21:38
SELECT * FROM Win32_NetworkAdapter WHERE MACAddress = '00:50:56:ac:21:38' and Manufacturer != 'Microsoft'
Found 1 objects. Pointer e82c28. return code 0(0x0)
Found 0 objects. Pointer 0. return code 1(0x1)
Returning value \\HOSAPP5\ROOT\CIMV2:Win32_NetworkAdapter.DeviceID="9" for system property
ASSOCIATORS OF {\\HOSAPP5\ROOT\CIMV2:Win32_NetworkAdapter.DeviceID="9"} where ResultClass = Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration
Found 0 objects. Pointer 0. return code 1(0x1)
Rpci: Sending request='deployPkg.update.state 4 101 C:\WINNT\TEMP\vmware-imc\guestcust.log@No nic configuration found.'

Rpci: Sent request='deployPkg.update.state 4 101 C:\WINNT\TEMP\vmware-imc\guestcust.log@No nic configuration found.', reply='', len=0, status=1

error number 80004005, No nic configuration found.
Creating object for MAC: 00:50:56:ac:35:3f
SELECT * FROM Win32_NetworkAdapter WHERE MACAddress = '00:50:56:ac:35:3f' and Manufacturer != 'Microsoft'
Found 1 objects. Pointer e82c28. return code 0(0x0)
Found 0 objects. Pointer 0. return code 1(0x1)
Returning value \\HOSAPP5\ROOT\CIMV2:Win32_NetworkAdapter.DeviceID="10" for system property
ASSOCIATORS OF {\\HOSAPP5\ROOT\CIMV2:Win32_NetworkAdapter.DeviceID="10"} where ResultClass = Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration
Found 0 objects. Pointer 0. return code 1(0x1)
Rpci: Sending request='deployPkg.update.state 4 101 C:\WINNT\TEMP\vmware-imc\guestcust.log@No nic configuration found.'

Rpci: Sent request='deployPkg.update.state 4 101 C:\WINNT\TEMP\vmware-imc\guestcust.log@No nic configuration found.', reply='', len=0, status=1

error number 80004005, No nic configuration found.

Anyone using XP20000 with SRM?

thomps01 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:57:55 GMT

Am in the process of planning an SRM implementation using ESX 3.5 and SRM 1.01 (Although want vsphere with SRM 2!!!).

Anyway, I want to know if anyone is running this configuration and can share their experiences, issues and special setup considerations.

Thanks

Stuart

Failed to authenticate with the Array management server while executing discoverArrays command

RahulMM — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:21:13 GMT

Hi Folks,

I am not finding any luck getting my vCenter Site Recovery Manager to work with SRA 1.3.0.8 along with Solution enabler version 7000.

When I am trying to add primary array details and click on 'Connect' button, it gives me error pop up "Failed to authenticate with the Array management server while executing discoverArrays command"

I tried re-installing SRA, restarting SRM service, but nothing seems to do the job.

Any idea whether this is due to any compatibility issue??

Microsoft NLB and SRM

ejdaly66 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:45:52 GMT

Hi,

We currently use NLB within our VM's for alot of our reporting services and web for increased availability at our Primary site. We will be implementing SRM in the very near future and would like to know what potential issues there will be failing over these servers via srm to our DR site. Specifically with changing IP addresses.

Does anyone have this implemented as yet

Currently have ESX 3.5 and Virtual Centre 2.5.0.64237

Any advice would be great

Thanks

SRM - Should it recover Physical Servers too??

LGATL — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:18:44 GMT

Hello,

Looking for community feedback regarding Site Recovery Manager covering more than just VMs. What if SRM could capture, secure and recover all the Windows/Linux/Unix physical server images as well as the vms?

If SRM could also support all Physical server images, how valueable would this feature be?

As a SRM user now, would you want this solution in the next 12 months, 24 months, etc?
As a SRM user now, what kind of priority would you put on this feature - High, Med, or Low?
As a SRM user now, how would this increase your overall SRM statisfaction - minor increase, or major increase?

Thanks so much. Feedback will help us determine when and how to provide the solution.

Lawrence

SRM test with IBM SVC problem

jobl — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:56:00 GMT

I am currently setting up SRM with IBM svd and when I try to test my recovery plan I get this error in the logs

~~2009-06-25 13:04:51.172 'SecondarySanProvider' 2652 trivia~~ 'testFailover' returned <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> 2 <Response> 2 <ReturnCode>0</ReturnCode> 2 </Response>
~~2009-06-25 13:04:51.172 'SecondarySanProvider' 2652 info~~ Return code for testFailover: 0 ~~2009-06-25 13:04:51.172 'SecondarySanProvider' 2652 trivia~~ 'Prepare storage for group 'shadow-group-3092' for recovery' took 13.369 seconds
~~2009-06-25 13:04:51.188 'BeginImageTest-Task' 2652 verbose~~ Error set to (dr.fault.InternalError) { 2 dynamicType = <unset>, 2 reason = "Failed to create group image: unknown exception", 2 msg = "" 2 } --

And natrually the test failes Anyone have a idea what can cause it? I have enabled flashcopy at the protection side

Regards

Johan

"low ressources on paired site" and "low memory" error messages

jame — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:35:18 GMT

Hi,

I get the message "low ressources on paired site" since I have configured the connection to the remote VirtualCenter even before and after configuring the SRA & the protection groups.

I've read that I can change the ressource level in the file "c:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Site Recovery Manager\config\vmware-dr.xml"

But when I take a look at the log files "vmware-dr.log", I find the following lines every 5 minutes:

~~2009-06-17 11:32:03.539 'LocalSiteStatus' 2860 verbose~~ Free disk space: 10447 Mb
~~2009-06-17 11:32:03.539 'LocalSiteStatus' 2860 error~~ Can't collect counter value: Unknown error -2147481643 (0x800007d5).
~~2009-06-17 11:32:03.539 'LocalSiteStatus' 2860 verbose~~ CPU usage: 0 %
~~2009-06-17 11:32:03.539 'LocalSiteStatus' 2860 verbose~~ Available memory: 0 Mb
*~~2009-06-17 11:32:03.539 'LocalSiteStatus' 2860 warning~~ Low memory: 0 Mb *

And something I have to give again the credentials of the remote VirtualCenter.

Does someone could help me?

Any Real Reference Case for Dizaster Recovery with VMware SRM and DS4000/5000 ERM?

smellyxavi — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:50:59 GMT

I'm looking for some reference cases for dizaster recovery solution with SRM and IBM DS4000/5000 ERM.

Is there any one can share the real case with me?

Thanks.

A different SRM request...

steve31783 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:14:37 GMT

I am involved in a data center move that will utilize SRM to move VMs from one site to another. Rather than have a portion of the VMs actually "failover" to the protected site, I have a requirement to bring up the protected/mirrored copies of the VMs at the replica site (change hostname, IP, DNS, etc.) all while the original VMs are still powered on at the production site.

Is it possible to accomplish something like this using SRM? It would be a lot easier for us to utilize SRM for these VMs, rather than to do the entire process manually. I realize the biggest piece to accomplishing this would be figuring out what needs to happen on the storage/mirroring side of things. I'm trying to avoid manually registering all of these VMs, and then manually change hostname, IP, DNS, etc.

Any help/suggestions would be appreciated.

SRM Permissions

paradox — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:22:16 GMT

Hi All,
I am trying to remove an Administrator role in permissions via the SRM plugin. I received the error
"The requested change could leave the system without full administrative privileges for any user or group"
There are 2 other groups with Administrator. I am removing a user who is a member of one of the groups with Administrator.

Any idea how I can do this? I could do this on the recovery site, just not on the protection site.

Dan

Running custom scripts - time zone change, dns update, etc

steve31783 — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:06:51 GMT

Hello-

I was wondering if anyone has any experience in running a custom script againt virtual machines once they are powered on?

I need to do the following 3 things:

1. Change timezone

2. Run ipconfig /registerdns

3. Run nbtstat -RR

I know I can change the machines IP,DNS, and WINS servers using dr-ip-customizer, but was looking for some guidance on these other items...

Should I be manually balancing the placeholder VM's across multiple hosts?

thomps01 — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:28:04 GMT

A busy posting day for me on SRM.

I have noticed that when I protect my virtual machines, even though I'm selecting the cluster object in my DR site, all the placeholder VM's appear to be registered on the first host.

What does this mean?

It means that when I run my recovery plan, the virtual machines are started serially because they're all on the same host.

If I migrate the placeholder VM's between the other hosts in the cluster, I get a quicker recovery because the VM's start in a parallel fashion.

I need to understand the behaviour of SRM and what the best practice is regarding placeholder registration.

Ideally I'd like to really push this and create 50 new virtual machines to see what happens.

How does SRM decide which ESX host to restart VM's on?

thomps01 — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:36:08 GMT

Simple question, how does SRM decide which ESX host to use when running a test plan or real failover?

I've noticed the same host seems to get picked each time. Is this an alphabetical thing?

At the moment I'm only failing over 15 VM's, so a single host is fine, but the eventual plan will be 300 machines so a single host just won't cut it.

Update: Think I've answered my own question. It depends where the placeholder VM's are registered during the initial protection. You can move these if you want afterwards.

Cannot Install OS on New VM on a Replicated SRM Datastore (from ISO)

hhgdl — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:25:37 GMT

Status:

I have a VI setup with SRM. I have three Datastore (LUN's) replicated to the Recover site.
I create 3 new VM's (Win2003), one on each of the proteced datastore's.
I connect a Datastore ISO file to one of these VM's (with 'Connect at power on' checked), to get the OS installed.
I power the VM up - nothing happens on the console.

If I do the same with a VM on a non-replicated Datastore, the Win2003 install start fine on the console.

Anyone, any ideas?

Thanks, hhgdl

SRM and Limited physical mode RDM presentation to hosts

paradox — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:10:58 GMT

Hi All,
3.5 u4.
I have an MS exchange cluster in a VC Cluster protected with SRM.
As it uses physical mode disks the re-scans are very slow, to fix this we moved exchange onto dedicated hosts.
Now we don't want to mirror this config in the recovery site, i.e. have two hosts idling waiting for a fail over. We want one large cluster running dev/test but don't want to impact it in the situation we fail over the exchange system (or simulate) and then try to fail over systems with very high re-scan times.

So, is it possible to get SRM to use a VC cluster, but only use several hosts and only present the RDM's to the selected hosts (where the VMFS may be presented to a number of other hosts, i.e. other protected VM's on same VMFS). This will limit re-scan penalty but not require a dedicated set of hosts.

Thanks all, I appreciate your time.
Dan

SRM Test failover with EMC Snapview

clarges — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:46:29 GMT

Folks

have a query on an issue I am seeing and just lookign for some information, have SRM deployed with 3 EMC CX420 SAN's all has been working fine and dandy with test and real failovers always 100% successful, however the customer I am dealing with did a test recovery last week and decided to do a full exchange database restore on the test exchange server, after an hour all the virtual amchines were displaygn error message about vmx file missing and the half the placeholder mahcines were deleted.

I know the the test phase of the SRM with EMC SAN's just bring online a snapview snapshot, my query is woudl this type of test cause the snap to fail\fillup etc, datbase was 80gb, or what else could have caused this issue

Auto-Synchronize Storage Array Failed

AWahlert — Tue, 26 May 2009 09:49:57 GMT

Hi List,

after changing the password for the storage Array Manager on the SAN i get this Error continuesly. (seems to be a task on the datacenter, but i can't see this Task in my infrastructure client under "Scheduled Tasks") I have deleted and recreated all the Array Manager Configs, the RP's and the PG's.

All the configs running fine but i get this error. Is the old Password anywhere hardcoded??

kind regrads

Andreas

Using SRA for EMC Recoverpoint , can't get the snapshots to delete after test

MR-T — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:21:11 GMT

I've attached the vmware-dr.log file to show what's happening but basically I've given the user all administrative permissions to create bookmarks (snapshots) of the LUNS and delete them but the SRA doesn't seem to complete the tasks.

What's annoying is that the SRM test recovery plan reports a success even though I'm left with a bunch of SNAP-datastores hanging around.

If we use the Recoverpoint ID created specifically for SRM and manually delete the snapshot LUNS it works fine.

I've downloaded the very latest SRA from the vmware site and am using SRM 1.0.1

If someone doesn't have anything else to do, take a quick look at my log file to see if you can understand where it's all going wrong.

Cheers

Stuart

Is there a way to update the recovery plan when I decide I don't want a machine powering on?

thomps01 — Wed, 13 May 2009 10:16:53 GMT

I edited my protection group on the protected site to prevent a couple of VM's powering up during a failover, but the recovery plan does not reflect this.

Even if I edit the recovery plan and re-walk through the wizard it doesn't pick up the change.

The only way I've seen this work is by creating a completely new Recovery Plan.

This is a real pain since my first recovery plan was set just right with messages, scripts etc and I don't want to start from scratch each time I make a change to the protection group.

Am I doing this correctley?

Need help understanding the relationship between vCenter and SRM Permissions.

cswaters1 — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:27:27 GMT

There is an SRM Permissions section on page 37 of the SRM Administrators guide, this section details the permissions that should be set "...To obtain the full ability of an administrator fo the protected site and the recovery site..."

Can some explain how these permissions should be set and what their relationships are with VirtualCenter?

My only real requirement is to provide management with the ability to initiate a test or run, what permissions in SRM and VirtualCenter are required to do this? I have tried using the SRM Recvoery Plans Administrator user (modified to include ability to run a recovery - as per release notes for update 1), but this setup only covers SRM permissions and not VirtualCenter.

What VC permissions do I need to set for this account to work?

Look forward to your response.

Thanks,

Craig.

Edit Guest Place Holder VMs

jjackson@ascendfcu.org — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:00:38 GMT

Is it ok to modify the VM settings of the place holder vm at the recovery site? For instance, i would like to reduce the amount of processors or memory of a guest when it is brought online at the DR site due to fewer resources being available there. If this is not correct what is the correct method to help reduce resource usage in a recovery scenario?

Testing failover for mix of physical and virtual machines

SkyC — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:04:39 GMT

Trying to wrap my head around the best way to test a DR failover when there is a mixture of physical servers and virtual machines that are part of the failover. Here is the scenario, app / web servers all run in VM's that will be protected via SRM, they run on a mix of 3 VLANs then there are 4 database servers that are running on a database VLAN. The plan is to use native replication within the database programs for data replication, and keep 2 virtual domain controllers in a separate site but part of the same domain.

If I put all traffic on some isolated network segment so everything in the failover site can talk to each other but not talk to the production network, I would think that would work but I have concerns about how my two AD servers will respond that are part of the protected site, should I just put them as a protected VM so the test recovery can just throwaway any changes that are made within AD at the time of the test?

Guess I'm just looking for some real-world this is how we did it in a mixed (physical / virtual) environment.

vSRM VLAN consideration ?

Funtoosh — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:06:56 GMT

I am planning to start POC for vSRM using ESX3.5 U2. I have done demo and it went through but could not show all the functionality. Currently for POC purpose I need to design VLAN.

My question what kind of approach should I take for VLAN. Shall I use "streached VLAN's" as few/NetApp says or shall I re-ip those machine?

If someone can point me to understand from pros/cons as well as "How To" that would be great help.

Thanks

Funtoosh

SRM, Equallogic and iSCSI Discovery Panel

cdickerson — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:44:09 GMT

So, got SRM and Equallogic SANs replicating and working good. I heard from Equallogic that one way to speed up the LUN discovery process is to go into the Configuration of the SAN, under Group Configuration-iSCSI tab and check "prevent unauthrozied hosts from discoverg targets". When you check this, only CHAP can be used to authorize LUNs to initiators. This does greatly speed up the storage rescan process, goes from about 4 minutes to 45 seconds. What I am finding is that when I do a Test Recovery in SRM, that the Equallogic SRA maps the temporary snapped volume that it presents to the ESX host with access setup to the initiator address of the ESX host. but since I have the "prevent unauthrozied hosts from discoverg targets" checked which only allows CHAP access, the ESX server is being denied access to the volume. Has anyone else tried this or seen this? Did I explaing good enough? I think this is a "feature" of the SRA and will have to take up with Equallogic but just wanted to get other thoughts first.

thanks.

-Craig

Help with SRM layout

Pagefaulted — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:47:52 GMT

So here's the story; We're replacing our ESX environment and starting from scratch with SRM

Site A (protected); (9) ESX hosts, but only 4 will be SRM protectet + (1) vCenter Server

Site B (recovery); (4) ESX hosts + (1) vCenter Server.

My question; Given the fact that not all servers on Site A will have SRM licensed; do I need to have two vCenter Servers at site A? or can I split them up logically somehow in vCenter Server? Thanks.

Create new Data source for SRM installation

habman — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:39:49 GMT

Can anyone guide me on how to create a new data source requested by the SRM installation. I have virtual center on the same host. VC is using SQL native client as a driver. I am installing on windows Enetrprise Server 2003.....what type of authentication should SQL server use to verify the login id. Windows NT authentication or SQL server authentication? Can SRM use the SQL server that was created during the VC installation or do I need to create a new server and if so How do I do that with the SQL 2005 express that was installed with VC? I tried looking for help on this site but haven't found any yet. I have never played much with SQL so I am having a bit of trouble. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

SRM - Netapp - igroup

squawky — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:25:55 GMT

I am having some issues with testing SRM recovery plan.

I am using Netapp FAS storage. FAS2050 - FAS250

I have a Snapmirror replication with iSCSI luns. The recovery Netapp filer has a snapmirror volume with a lun but there is no igroup setup on it.

How do you configure the igroup for SRM on DR Recovery Netapp Storage?

SRM + View 3

knudt — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:19:01 GMT

Has anyone dealt with using SRM to protect a View 3 infrastructure? Are there any best practices available?

SRM with EVA4x00 - Test recovery plan Correct - Real Failer Over Recovery Plan FAILED

AndreasKunz — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:43:43 GMT

Hi,

We have an Active/Active environment and replication is setup and working OK.

We have installed all modules SRM and HP preconize :

- EVA41000 with XCS 6.11, Eva Command View 8.0.1
- Licences BC and CA (All Correct), RSM 4.0 (We have both BC and CA licences for both sites.)
- HP_StorageWorks_EVA_Virtualization_Adapter_v1_00
- Virtual Center, SRM 1.0.1, ESX 3.5U1

We have 2 sites with 3 ESX server.
We can successfully create a snapshot on the EVA of the replicated/masked LUN.
We have installed SRM and the EVA VA (SRA) and this has completed successfully on both sites..... and have set up all the required elements.

We have created a "Recovery Plan" with 2 ESX Server and 3 Virtaul Machine...
All is correct...

the test recevory plan (attach files) is correct, but the real Recovery Failed (attach files)....

I have change the value in the xml file " <hostRescanRepeatCnt>2</hostRescanRepeatCnt>", but is not sufficent...

After search and see the log file, you can see : All Datasotre presented is "empty"....but is not empty...

the log file is attach.

thank's for your help.....

ERROR : Operation timed out during Test

76dragon — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:12:11 GMT

I found the work around below in the Vmware support forums and found this helped stop the timeout errors when running a SRM test plan. Now ive implimented the ip address mapping im getting the same error as before and the only way to stop it is to extend the timeout values back to 300/300 but this makes the test run alot slower, the additional time for the heart beat response seems to be due to the need for the reboot after the re configuration is done to set IP address settings. The strange this is though that before IP mapping was enabled, the timeout was just a warning and the VM would still start, now the vm powers off.

Does anyone else have any experience with IP mapping, it would be nice if you could disable this check all together for tests... although i do see why they are needed.

Im using VC 2.5 U3, ESX 3.5 update 2, SRM 1.1

Anyone have any thoughts ?

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/185949?tstart=15

if the errors really are annonying then you can if you wish (insert disclaimer here for stating this is just my suggestion and not a VMware suggestion) simply edit your ESX hostd config.xml (/etc/vmware/hostd/config.xml) on your recovery site ESX hosts so that the vmsvc section looks like this:

object reference not set to an instance of an object

Marcel1967 — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:34:25 GMT

During the creation of the first Protection Group I get an error: object reference not set to an instance of an object

This error pops up just after selecting the "datastore for placeholder VM' . It does not matter which datastore is selected.

Connection, array managers and inventory mapping have been setup without a problem.

I am using SRM 1.0.1.

Any idea how to solve this issue? Reinstall of both SRM's did not solve this.

Steps To Create a 2-Site SRM Demo Environment on a Laptop on VIOPS

yorkie — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:13:14 GMT

Desmond Chan has posted a cool and popular document on VIOPS called Steps To Create a 2-Site SRM Demo Environment on a Laptop

There are other availability related documents covering other products, such as VCB, on VIOPS. Check out the VIOPS Availability zone.

License manager (lmgrd.exe) doesn't restart

bonvib9 — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:14:59 GMT

I usually see two instances of lmgrd.exe running. But for some reason, on one of my hosts, it stopped running and I don't see even a single instance running. I tried rebooting the host. But it still didn't start. Under what circumstances can this happen? It was running fine before it stopped. There are no logs to look in to understand the reason.

I have two .lic files from VMware. One for PROD_SRM and the other for SRM_PROTECTED_HOST. Both of these license files are brand new and are valid until July.

The other interesting thing is that everything works fine on my other host (recovery site). Any help is greatly appreciated.

DS4800: Non-fatal error information reported during execution of array integration script

waynei — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:50:12 GMT

Hi All,

I'm testing SRM and I'm having an issue with testing a recovery plan. I fails with "Error: Non-fatal error information reported during execution of array
integration script: Failed to create lun snapshots." in the step Prepare Storage step.

I'm running ESX 3.5U3, SRM 1.0U1, SRA for the DS4800 (SMSRAInstaller-WS32-01.00.35.07.exe) and 7.10.23 firmware on theDs4800.

The Manifest.xml file has been changed to add the <PasswordAuth/> option as per the readme. One thing I note is you need to type a username in the array configuration dialog, but any username appears to work. (Storage Manager only has a password, no username...)

When configuring the arrays with SRM, the mirrored luns are found correctly, and we have the default enabled FlashCopy feature enabled thats comes with the 7+ firmware.

Anyone got any ideas? Are there any logs I can check? I've check around and there appears to be a lack of logs....

Wayne.

Extending the Protected Site Network to the Recovery site?

VMotional — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:47:18 GMT

Hi All.

Our IT Dept have been tasked to develop DR plans. Our current setup has two locations that are 200 miles away and connected through 3rd party ISPs. Reading up on SRM, it looks like the easiest way to implement DR is if the the Recovery site network is simply an extension of the Primary site network - meaning that both sites are of the same subnet... i.e. able to communicate over Layer 2... kinda like two network switches directly connected with a really long eithernet switch.

So, other than laying down a really long fiber cable... how are people accomplishing this?

From my limited reading, VPLS may be a possible solution... but I am little blurry on the concept while our network engineers are reluctant to provide a definitive answer. So, if anyone could answer some pointed questions based on their first hand experience, then I would feel more confident that I am on the right track.

1) Will VPLS allow the two sites to appear as one subnet? Example: a server 192.168.1.15 with subnet mask of /24 can be dropped in either site readily and function.

2) What are the concerns of broadcast traffic between the sites?

3) Would it be best to configure a default gate on each site to alleviate traffic over the tunnel, and just set the primary gateway based on location?

4) Is there a more viable and cost effective solution other the VPLS (maybe VLL?)

Thanks!

SRM in Production - Any one want to talk?

Eddy — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:55:35 GMT

If anyone has this in production and wants to chat, please contact me. caballeroe@gtlaw.com

thanks, Eddy

Go Virtual!

Video Tutorials for VMware Site Recovery Manager (Completed!)

HyperViZor — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:41:21 GMT

Hi all,

This is my very first contribution in here! its the first video tutorial in a series to come for VMware SRM, please leave your comments in my blog and let me know your opinion. Don't forget to subscribe to my RSS feed to be notified in time for future videos.

01 - SRM Installation
02 - SAN Setup Using the Lefthand VSA
03 - Configuring SAN Replication
04 - Configuring the SRA and completing the SRM setup

Hany Michael
HyperViZor.com | Virtualization, and everything around it

LeftHand Network SRA 8.0

jbsengineer — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:05:01 GMT

Can someone help me out and contact me via private message. I'd need to get the SRA 8.0 adapter and it's not available on the VMware website yet. It's only available to LeftHand customers or partners as of now. I'm currently in the evaluation period with the LeftHand product but not having the SRM adapter is crippling the testings. Thanks.

MD3000i

vprefware — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:36:41 GMT

Hello,

MD3000i is not on the compatibility matrix of storage replication adapters. However, do you think it could work and will be supported someday ?

Thanks in advance.

SRMU1 Upgrade - Protection Group Permissions?

RRock — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:10:50 GMT

I just upgraded our SRM environment to SRMU1 and am having problems creating a new protection group. I understand that there were some permission changes on the recovery plan side, but didn't think anything changed on the protection group side. I was able to create protection groups under the default "Administrator" role before the upgrade but now it's grayed out. I just have the "Administrator" role defined at the root and have even tried logging into VC/SRM locally and get the same results. Is there something I am missing?

TIA

SRM Reip Servers during failover question

vedeht — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:18:31 GMT

I understand that SRM can and will reip servers during a failover. My question to those of you who have done this more often that I have is... Has anyone been able to reconfigure specific applications such as sharepoint or similar applications that have ip addresses bound to specific functions on the vm?

Example: Server1 is sharepoint it hosts several web applications. 10.1.1.1 is app1 10.1.1.2 is app2, etc. How can I get SRM to reip those applications and not just change the ip address on the server?

Any ideas??

How Change IP: ESX + VC + SRM in Site Secundary

jguerrero — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:41:44 GMT

Hello

How change the network configuration for ESX + VC + SRM?? I need change de network configuration in the Site Secundary.

What impact has this change in the functioning of the solution?

Exist documentation for this changes??

Please I need help with this change.

customization file for TEST recovery plan

Itzikr — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:45:49 GMT

im asking in regards to the test network customization..

1. i created a test vlan vswitch to overcome the testbubble network problem on all of my recovery site esx servers

2. i created DR vswitches

3. created a customization file for all my protected VM's

4. using the recovery plan TEST scenario, i booted up the VM's attached to the test vswitch with the DR customization file.

.. how can i create a customization file to be used for the testing scenario with a testing vswitch (a customization file that wil be different than the DR customization file) ?

Itzik

SRM test network issues - SRM not setting the VM's to reside in a defined "Test Network" during testing.

CrisRobinson — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:05:57 GMT

Has anyone seen an issue with SRm not successfully changing a VM's network during a test? We see the network change reporting back as successful in the test summary but in fact the VM is still in it's original network. We have also tried to set the VM's to come up in the "bubble" network(s) but that has also failed.

We are running 3.5 update 1 98103 ( update 2 still shows as not being SRM validated/supported). SRM is at version 1.0.0.866

SRM and VDI (VDM)

dagterberg — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:15:25 GMT

Hi,

I'm looking into ways for disaster recovery for a VDI environment using SRM. Anybody any suggestions on this subject? Would be very appreciated.

Regards,

Dennis

srm refused connection of port 8753

sunvmman — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:44:06 GMT

my virtual center is running on port 8753 when i try installing SRM and enter the virtualCenter port it tells me

"refused connection on port 8753. Perhaps the VirtualCenter Server is not running."

i obviously know it's running since I use the VI client all day long.

Administering VMware Site Recovery Manager Book Released

Mike_Laverick — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:38:38 GMT

I hope nobody feels I am shameless advertising my commerical warez via the community forum! :-P

Er, because I guess I am...

Hopefully, my 6 years of free material contributed to the VMware Community will ofset any criticism :-p

I thought people here would be interested to know - that my book on SRM is now public available on lulu.com...

Buy a copy today, you might be surprised what you learn...

Anyway, carsalesman pitch over - here's the link

http://www.lulu.com/content/4343147

Regards
Mike Laverick
RTFM Education

Which replicator Adapter for EMC AX4-5

ascheale — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:03:07 GMT

Installed ESX U1 and SRM 1.0.

Read in CompatMatrix I need
EMC CLARiiON MirrorView Storage Replication Adapters but I cannot find it.

I´m currently testing SRM

Alex

SRM Book Reviewers

Mike_Laverick — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:52:44 GMT

Would you like to review (technically not for typos) my SRM book.

I'm very close to finishing - but haven't much feedback from my existing group of reviewers... mainly because they are so busy with other work - not least VMware.

I'm really looking for people who know the product pretty well, and so read my book for clarity and accuracy...

Regards
Mike

A Bunch of Useful SRM Links

Mike_Laverick — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:54:11 GMT

Like me you have probably found finding the storage vendors docs on SRM sometimes tricky to find. So I have been collecting and collating them...

Thanks to Lee Dilworth (Smoggy?) on the forums for handing me the EMC ones:

IF anyone here finds a doc which have found useful, please post it here:

LeftHand Networks SRA for VMware Site Recovery Manager
http://resources.lefthandnetworks.com/forms/VMware-LeftHand-SRA-Download

HP disaster tolerant solutions using Continuous Access for HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array in a VMware Infrastructure 3 environment
Document ID: 4AA1-0820ENW
http://h71028.www7.hp.com/ERC/downloads/4AA1-0820ENW.pdf

VMware Site Recovery Manager in a NetApp Environment
Document ID: TR-3671
http://media.netapp.com/documents/tr-3671.pdf

Disaster Recovery Using Dell Equallogic Ps Series Storage And VMware Site Recovery Manager
Document ID: TR1039
http://www.equallogic.com/uploadedFiles/Resources/Tech_Reports/TR1039-Dell-EqualLogic-PS-Series-SAN-and-VMware-SRM.pdf

Improving VMware Disaster Recovery with EMC RecoveryPoint
Document ID: H5582
http://powerlink.emc.com/km/live1/en_US/Offering_Technical/Technical_Documentation/H5582-VMware_Site_Recovery_Manager_with_EMC_RecoverPoint_Implementation_Guide.pdf

Using EMC SRDF Adapter VMware Site Recovery Manager
Document ID: H5511
http://powerlink.emc.com/km/live1/en_US/Offering_Technical/White_Paper/H5511-using-emc-srdf-adapter-vmware-site-rcvry-mgr-wp.pdf

VMware Site Recovery Manager with EMC Celerra NS Series and Celerra Replicator Implementation Guide
Document ID: H5581
http://powerlink.emc.com/km/live1/en_US/Offering_Technical/Technical_Documentation/H5581-VMware_Site_Recovery_Manager_with_EMC_Celerra_NS_Series_and_Celerra_Replicator_Implementation_Guide.pdf

VMware Site Recovery Manager with EMC CLARiiON CX3 and MirrorView Implementation Guide
http://powerlink.emc.com/km/live1/en_US/Offering_Technical/Technical_Documentation/H5583-VMware_Site_Recovery_Manager_with_EMC_CLARiiON_CX3_and_MirrorViewS_Implementation_Guide.pdf
Document ID: H5583

Regards
Mike Laverick
RTFM Education
http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk
Co-Author of the vi3book.com and author of a shortly to be released book on VMware's SRM

SRM Blog?

Mike_Laverick — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:58:11 GMT

I would really like someone in the SRM Team to start VMTM blog about SRM...

It would be really helpful to the community to have some insider giving us tips and tricks along the way...

Regards
Mike

Admin Guide Permissions Example - and feature request - "Delegation Wizard"

Mike_Laverick — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:50:45 GMT

I'm working through the offical admin guides example of setting permissions - phew its doosy!

Firstly, I would like some clarification on some of the terms used...

Protection Virtual Machine Administrator role at the VirtualCenter host level
(propagate).

If I had a cluster of 32 servers for HA/DRS - does "host" level mean either folder or cluster of ESX hosts - if you didn't have one your would have to make one otherwise be forced to set the permissions manually for each ESX host...?

Secondly,

Recovery Virtual Machine Administrator at the VirtualCenter resource pool and
VirtualCenter folder levels (propagate).

Could this privilege be set at a cluster level or would have have to create a parent resouce pool and set the privilege there?
I take the second one would require me to switch views and set the privilege in the Virtual MAchines and Template View?

Thirdly, I was little concerned at the inclusion of Virtual Machine Administrator on a cluster or folder of ESX hosts - this would allow for a SRM Administrator to add and remove ESX hosts. Is it not enough to give them Virtual Machine User or Power User....

Lastly... the feature request... I think SRM badly needs a delegation wizard to handle this process... there 7 do not propagates... There are 10 different roles set in different parts of the inventory. I followed the instructions to the letter that made my brain ache, I made mistakes - and in the real world I would be worried about the rights I'd allocated...

Oh, also when I got to login to the recovery sites SRM i get a error message "exception of type "vmomi.Fault.NoPermission" was thrown".... Not sure what this - except perms... going to double check on the recovery site that I got it right...

Regards
Mike

OT? - global application failover

td3201 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:55:16 GMT

Hello,

I need a hint to go down the right path here. In the scenario that we use SRM to stand up VMs in a remote datacenter, and the VMs are public http servers, what must be done to ensure that they are still accessible on the Internet? What technology is utilized to meet this requirement?

Links to Storage Vendor Documents

Mike_Laverick — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:40:04 GMT

I'm working on a series of links to various storage vendors documentation - the more slanted around specific requirements for SRM the better... but general "how to setup replication" documents would be helpful also...

This is what I have so far

HP disaster tolerant solutions using Continuous Access for HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array in a VMware Infrastructure 3 environment
Document ID: 4AA1-0820ENW
http://h71028.www7.hp.com/ERC/downloads/4AA1-0820ENW.pdf

VMware Site Recovery Manager in a NetApp Environment
Document ID: TR-3671
http://media.netapp.com/documents/tr-3671.pdf

Disaster Recovery Using Dell Equallogic Ps Series Storage And VMware Site Recovery Manager
Document ID: TR1039
http://www.equallogic.com/uploadedFiles/Resources/Tech_Reports/TR1039-Dell-EqualLogic-PS-Series-SAN-and-VMware-SRM.pdf

If you have good links to good PDF's please share them here. These are going to be referrenced in my book, and I will blog about what I find this week

Regards
Mike

SRM/SQL2005 - Authentication & Permissions

Mike_Laverick — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:07:16 GMT

I've recently aquired a copy of SQL2005. Previously I've used SQL2000. I'm no SQL guy - and i'm confused by the authentication/permissions requirements for it an SRM.

Firstly, my SQL box is on a separate windows instance. Can I use Windows Authentication with SRM OR, like VirtualCenter MUST I used SQL Authentication?

Secondly, If it is SQL Authentication do i need a LOCAL account on the SQL box for this to work. In the past i've used SQL Authenication with SQL2000 and domain accounts have worked - but SQL2005 hates this and throws up an error message

Thirdly, apart from permissions to the SRM DB itself - does the installer need and rights to the other databases such as the MSDB or Master. I understand VirtualCenter does, but does SRM?

Lastly, what DB rights are specifically needed for the install - DB_OWNER as in a VirtualCenter installation?

Regards
Mike

Licensing Help

Mike_Laverick — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:59:32 GMT

Well, the book is the hands of some reviewers. Meanwhile I sped read the GA version of the SRM guide, and found some juicy nuggets of information...

I'm on to the next step going through my own book and validating all i've said against the GA. However, I've hit a road block.

A couple of weeks ago I must have signed up to eval - I've got the source code. I didn't generate a lic file at the time - because I knew I'd be busy and it would expire before I would get this stage. Somehow I can't locate the email that would have come through telling me how to pick up my lic file. Now when I got to evaluate page again - I just get a blank page on the vmware.com website. That's with IE7 and Mozilla...

With out a valid LIC file - I can't continue my work

Regards
Mike

How to backup and recover a recovery plan?

pfuhli — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:42:30 GMT

Hi there,

our company is going to implement SRM in a landscape of approx. 200 VMs @ 10 ESX boxes.
We did a Jump Start workshop on SRM to discuss which things have to be in the concept before starting to implement it.

While discussing test scenarios we get the information that it is possible to export recovery plans once they have been created. But it seems at this time that there is no import procedure to get this recovery plan back after you deleted it. BUT deletion of the existing recovery plan is mandatory before creating a fail back plan.

How did you folks solve this problem. Do you recreate the recovery plan each time you failed over and failed back?
In a testing environment this can be a lot of work to do by hand :-/

Any suggestions welcome!!

Regards,

daniel

FYI on EMC RecoverPoint Array Manager configuration

pizaro — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:25:14 GMT

Before configuring array manager for EMC RecoverPoint - ensure

1) ports 1099 & 4401 are open

2) test connectivity to RP mgmt server by launching the RP GUI from the SRM server