Find "stale" SRM Placeholder servers

[JDMils_Interact]

One of our customers was using a really old version of SRM in their Prod & DR vCenters and we found that SRM had stopped working and was unfixable, so we recreated the SRM environment by installing a new version of SRM ( 8.2.1, 17078491).

I noticed that the placeholder servers from the previous SRM installation are still in the DR vCenter and was wondering, how can i identify those and delete them without deleting the placeholder servers created by the new SRM installation?

vCenter is V6.7u3n

[ashilkrishnan · Accepted solution]

Hi @JDMils_Interact ,

All these placeholder VMs(from previous and current installation) will have a 'com.vmware.vcDr' extension for them and if we try to list the VMs with that extension, it'll list the old and new placeholder VMs.

Locating SRM Placeholder VMs using the vSphere API 

Placeholder VMs are usually created in dedicated one or more placeholder datastore's. If the previous SRM installation was using a different placeholder datastore, it would be easier to locate and cleanup placeholder VMs from it.

If the new installation does not contain a lot of VMs, you can cleanup all placeholder VMs and re-create them from SRM UI.

Hope that helps

[JDMils_Interact]

Thanks Ashilkrishnan,

The previous & new SRM installations use the same placeholder datastore, but your idea of deleting all placeholder servers in the DR site then recreating from SRM GUI sounds like the better idea.

Thanks.