SRM Failover

[esnmb]

Hi all,

I am pretty sure I know this answer, but I have some questions/concerns.

I have several protection groups that have a several VM's assigned to them.  Each protection group contains VM's that are on a single datastore (one datastore per protection group).  We've run multiple tests with no issues at all, so now I want to run an actual recovery, at least on one protection group that has a couple test VM's on them.

The reason, I would like to know that reprotect works and verify that it changes the ip address back to what I have assigned in the Protected site address settings field for each VM.

My fear is, once I to a Recovery, more than one LUN will failover causing a disaster.  I know SRM is supposed to only fail over the LUN that is in the Protection Group, or else there is no point to the Protection Group...

Do I have any reason to be concerned?  No other LUN will failover or at least it isn't supposed to....

Thanks for the assistance.

[GreatWhiteTec]

You have no reason to be concerned. SRM will only failover the VMs of the protection group that you have selected. It is almost the same as the test with a few differences of course. By default SRM renames the datastore that was failed over at the recovery site, so don't freak out when you see a different datastore name. You can change that setting if you want.

[esnmb]

Great, thanks for the reply!  I was stressing out about it even though logically I knew it didn't work that way... Better safe than sorry I suppose.