problem to Reprotect VMs in SRM 6.1

[ok7827125]

I have configured VMware SRM 6.1.1.2 with RecoverPoint SRA 2.2.0.3. All tests include the following steps have done successfully.

Test recovery mode was donec correctly and I am capability of return to main site by Cleanup button.

Meanwhile, Fail over recovery in Planned migration is done and after that I could be able to Reprotect and fail back in Planned migration to the production site.

My only problem is when I'm going to do fail over and fail back in Disaster recovery mode! first, I shutdown all the hosts suddenly and then run the recovery plan in Disaster recovery mode. It will be done successfully and therefore, all VMs will be power on in the disaster site. On the contrary, Reprotect button is not able and it would be grayed If I wanna to fail back to production site.

Should it be reversed and returned to main sites from EMC RecoverPoint?

what are your opinions about this circumstance?

[jameseydoyle]

Hi ok7827125,

When you run a recovery plan in 'Disaster Recovery' mode, all the same workflow will be attempted as with the 'Planned Migration', with the exception that the plan will not halt when errors are encountered. Therefore we cannot be sure that all steps that would be prerequisite to a successful Reprotect have been completed. Therefore, if you want to perform a reprotect operation following a 'Disaster Recovery', you should perform a 'Planned Migration' on the same recovery plan once you have all the relevant components (vCenter/PSC, hosts, storage etc.) back online in the original Protected site. Any steps that are already complete will be skipped, but any tasks that failed during the 'Disaster Recovery' will be re-attempted until they succeed. Only then will you be able to perform a clean 'Reprotect'. Otherwise, you will have to reverse the replication manually and possibly reconfigure the recovery plans.