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Hello, Trying to run the dr-ip-reporter command on an SRM appliance.  When I type the command the system returns "-bash: dr-ip-reporter: command not found".  If I attempt to run as sudo and enter the admin password says the password is incorrect. Sadly Linux is just one more skill I have not mastered. What am I doing wrong? 

Hello to everyone, I have a problem with vSphere replication between two sites. On the primary site, vCentre was upgraded to version 7.03 and hosts were upgraded to the same version. On the DR site, vCentre was also upgraded to version 7, but the hosts remained on version 6.7 due to hardware incompatibility. After I add a new replication machine according to the DR site, I get the following error: A replication error occurred at the vSphere Replication Server for replication 'mymachine'. Details: 'Error for (diskId: "RDID-462aa3d2-cbc3-47a1-aa6a-324d5e5721f2"), (hostIP: "192.168.123.123"), (flags: on-disk-open, retriable): Fault: (vmodl.fault.InvalidRequest) { faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null, faultMessage = <unset> msg = "Received SOAP response fault from [<SSL(<io_obj p:0x00007f5cc0004048, h:22, <TCP '192.168.123.124 : 34334'>, <TCP '192.168.123.123 : 80'>>), /sdk>]: fileManagement Unexpected element tag "mask" seen while parsing call information for method NfcFileManagement at line 10, column 0 while parsing SOAP body at line 9, column 0 while parsing SOAP envelope at line 2, column 0 while parsing HTTP request for method fileManagement on object of type vim.NfcService at line 1, column 0" }; Set error flag: retriable; Failed to get NFC system management ticket.; Can't get NFC ticket to establish session (target=); establish nfc connection on host-29; Tried operation 4 times, giving up.; Probing disk capacity.; While getting host capabilities for disk. (native snapshot hint = false); Failed to open disk, couldn't get disk type/capabilities; Set error flag: on-disk-open; Tried operation 4 times, giving up.; Failed to open replica (/vmfs/volumes/52d6e65e-8e968e30-a79d-40f2e92a7e02/mymachine/mymachine.vmdk); Failed to open activeDisk (GroupID=GID-9f254aac-357f-4fd4-ae27-2a5a5212835a) (DiskID=RDID-462aa3d2-cbc3-47a1-aa6a-324d5e5721f2); Can't create replica state (GroupID=GID-9f254aac-357f-4fd4-ae27-2a5a5212835a) (DiskID=RDID-462aa3d2-cbc3-47a1-aa6a-324d5e5721f2); Cannot activate group. Loading disks from database (GroupID=GID-9f254aac-357f-4fd4-ae27-2a5a5212835a) ; Connecting to group GID-9f254aac-357f-4fd4-ae27-2a5a5212835a'. 192.168.123.123 - this is IP address of my esxi host on dr site version esxi 6.7 192.168.123.124 - this is IP address of my vSphere replication server 8.7 on DR site I have enough space on storage. What could be the problem?    

Good night I have the following scenario to replicate some VMs: Site 1 (Temporary Production): vCenter 6.5 + SRM 8.4 and VR 8.4. Site 2 (Definitive Production): vCenter 7.0 + SRM 8.5 and VR 8.5. Site 3 (Recovery Site): vCenter 7.0 + SRM 8.5 and VR 8.5. We have the scenario where we want to replicate some critical VMs that are in Site 1. This Site would be temporary. We have the SRM and vsphere Replication instances connected from Site 1 to Site 2. However, when we want to connect the SRM instances from Site 2 to Site 3, it does not allow it, it gives us an error indicating that the previous sites are already connected. Basically the plan consists of replicating some VMs from Site 1 to Site 2 and then to Site 3, where Site 3 would be our recovery site. Since Site 1 would be left out due to obsolescence issues. We want to validate if this idea is feasible, we would display: Site 1 (Temporary Production): vCenter 6.5 + SRM 8.4 and VR 8.4. Site 2 (Definitive Production): vCenter 7.0 + Two instances SRM 8.5 and VR 8.5. (Here you would have Two SRM instances and two vsphere Replication instances connected to a single vcenter instance.) Between Site 1 and Site 2 it will make the connection of sites between them. Here you would use the first instance of SRM and vsphere Replication belonging to Site 2. Between site 2 and Site 3 it would make a new site connection between them, here what it would do is make the second SRM instance and vsphere Replication point to Site 3. Site 3 (Recovery Site): vCenter 7.0 + SRM 8.5 and VR 8.5. Any comment or suggestion is very helpful. Thank you.

hello everyone, I would like someone to help me with a problem in SRM I am doing recovery tests for some VMS but when I move this machine from site A to Site B, everything works normally, after performing the reprotection and wanting to return to site A, I am presented with the following error "no hosts with hardware version "11" and datastores "NAME_DATASTORE" are available that are powered on and not in maintenance mode"  Can someone help me with this problem and how to solve it? It happens to me with all the vms and backup groups, it always stays at step #13   Thank you very much in advance for everyone's help    

Hello, I exported a list of outgoing replication vm list from gui export option that have column like  vm namr,status,RPO,Target,Replication Server,protection group.   Wanted to schedule this export from multiple vcenter so looking for script. Tried googling but unable to get right script.   Please help.   Thanks