Recovery Plans

[rz1]

Hello,

I'm working with SRM 5.1 using array based replication.  I have a question concerning recovery plans.  We have a very basic setup.  We have a single datastore that is being replicated to our failover site.  There are two vm's on that datastore, say VM1, and VM2.  Is it possible to create 3 Recovery Plans for this scenario:

1. Recovery plan A just for VM1

2. Recovery plan B just for VM2

3. Recovery plan C for both VM1 and VM2.

I thought this was possible in version 4.1, but it seems like the recovery plan for 5.1 has to include all the vm's on the datastore.  I saw the options for leaving a vm powered on or off in a recovery plan, but that setting is then set globally for the vm in all recovery plans.

I realize I'm probably missing something here so any help or advice would be appreciated.

Thanks!

[vMario156]

If you use array replication the failover happens on the LUN / datastore layer --> You can´t just failover a single VM form a datastore with multiple VMs.

Check out my SRM guide for more details: http://vknowledge.net/2012/06/24/srm-tutorial-part-1-lab-setup/

Cheers,

Mario

[mal_michael]

As Mario sais, this is not possible.

This was not possible with any version of SRM.

Michael.

[rz1]

Thank you both for your responses.  I understand that when the replicated LUN is brought on-line on the recovery side it will contain both VM's.  I just thought you could create different recovery plans for which vm's would either be registered or powered on on the recovery side.

[mal_michael · Accepted solution]

This will not work:failover / planned migration will always shutdown both VMs at the protected site.

Even that you set VM as poweroff in RP, it is still protected and will be shutdown.

Michael.

[rz1]

Thank you!