I have a functioning SRM v5 environment that was setup a year ago. Failovers and test failovers work well. However, now I've been told that I need to reverse the primary and recovery sites as the roles of our datacenters have changed (GRRRRRRRR!!!!!)
I'm running ESXi and vCenter v5. I have a vCenter server and SRM server in each datacenter. I have multiple 500GB luns with protected VMs. How can I go about swapping this SRM infrastructure such that SiteA (primary) / SiteB (recovery) becomes SiteA (recovery) / SiteB (primary)? Do I need to completely rebuild everything? Or can I maintain the existing installation on the SRM servers and modify the SRM configuration in vCenter?
Thanks!
Why to not simply perform a planned migration from A to B and then re-protect?
Miichael.
Hi,
You dont have to rebuild.
First break the site pairing from SRM. ( optional )
Then delete recovery plan, from original Site B ( take screen shot each recovery plan to have reference about protection group in it )
Then delete protection group from Original Site A ( take screen shot each protection to have reference for placing virtual machine back to it )
Then re-create the site pairing from other Site ( Optional )
Delete place holder VM from Original Site B.
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Reverse replication on Storage Array from New Site A to New Site B
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Create protection group from new Site A
Create Recovery plan from Site B.
Note : Take backup of SRM DB
Regards
Mohammed
Why to not simply perform a planned migration from A to B and then re-protect?
Miichael.
Michael M. wrote:
Why to not simply perform a planned migration from A to B and then re-protect?
Miichael.
Good question. I wasn't sure of the repercussions of performing this simple step. Does SRM have an expectation that site A still remains the primary? Would this cause any confusion within SRM failovers?
Mohammed,
I assume this includes unprotecting and migrating those VMs off the lun correct?
Hi,
Unprotecting yes and the manually reprotecting it.
When you said changing Sites , does it include changing location of production virtual machine from site A to B ? If this yes , As mal_michael said , go ahead with planned migration and reprotect..
Regards
Mohammed Emaad
Yes, it includes changing the VM location. I'll move forward with the planned migration and reprotect. Thanks!