SRM work with dvs? (support says no)

[gdesmo]

I have one way replication using vsphere esxi 4.0.0 208167 U1 with srm 4.0.0 236215 and an ibm svc sra 1.1.91029

Vmware support is telling me there is an internal bug that prevents me for protecting any vm that is using a distributed virtual switch. They also said do not go to update 2 this will make it worse.

Is anyone using distributed switches and SRM?

[dquintana]

Very interesting, i would like to know too.

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[woodwarp]

We have a customer using vDS and SRM, they are using a hybrid model so the vDS is only for VM Port Groups, not for Management or VMkernel.

I configured the protection and was able to select the VM port groups in the inventory mapping. This was 4 or so months ago so I'm not entirely sure it was update 1.

[Michelle_Laveri]

I have one way replication using vsphere esxi 4.0.0 208167 U1 with srm 4.0.0 236215 and an ibm svc sra 1.1.91029

Vmware support is telling me there is an internal bug that prevents me for protecting any vm that is using a distributed virtual switch. They also said do not go to update 2 this will make it worse.

Is anyone using distributed switches and SRM?

There was indeed a bug where the inventory mappings of the place holders would randomly lost if they were pointing to portgroup on a DvSwitch. I'm not sure if it has been fixed yet. I think it has. Let me ping the guys I know in the SRM team to check it out...

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Mike Laverick

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[Michelle_Laveri]

SRM re-release of will fix this issue - and there release is date is VERY soon, but I'm not at liberty to to say when...

There is an internal (upon request I think) hot-fix for this issue for the current build, but it requires a re-install of an existing SRM environment so its not horribly popular...

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Mike Laverick

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[mal_michael]

Read the following forum thread:

Error: Network device needed by recovered virtual machine couldn't be found at recovery or test time

[Michelle_Laveri · Accepted solution]

I think this is what you will be looking for:

http://www.vmware.com/support/srm/srm_releasenotes_4_1.htm

Odd phrase "Full support for networks backed by a VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch (vDS) at the protected and recovery sites."

Should be fixed random bug in DvSwitches, they always were supported... AFAIK...

Regards

Mike Laverick

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Author of the SRM Book:http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/2010/03/22/new-administrating-vmware-site-recovery-manager-4-0/

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[MauroBonder]

laverick, say RTFM man!

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