how best to undo disaster recovery

[ejacobs]

Earlier this week, our PA location lost total power. One of our clients paniced and wanted a disaster recovery to be done. It worked, kinda (I had to clean up  recovered vms because recovery never totally finished for many of the vms because of a timeout waiting for vmware tools). Later that day power  was restored and the PA ESXI servers came back up, and with them the vms in question. So I don't want the vms that are in NY. Can I just delete them, or will that confuse SRM too much?

[mal_michael]

Hi,

What version of SRM do you use?

Array-based or vSphere Replication?

So you don't need any data on the recovered VMs?

Michael.

[ejacobs]

SRM 5.0.1. In this case, array based. I don't need any of the data from the recovered vms

[vN3rd]

If it's an option you could try to storage vMotion your guests to a datastore that is not a memeber of any protection groups and see if SRM cleans up the guest files at the recovery site; once things have been automatically or manually cleaned up, re-protect the VM.

I assume your array replication is still intact and is functioning since your primary site hardware came back online?

[mal_michael]

vN3rd

Once you perform a failover, the replication is broken.

ejacobs

I am trying to recall if there is something that can be done automatically or you will be need to do a manual clean-up (power-off VMs, unregister, unmount datastores / RDMs, unmap LUNs, enable replication and reconfigure protection).

What is the size of the environment of that customer (VMs, datastores, Protection Groups)?

Michael.