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Re: SRM / SRA Nimble Storage issue

by Contributor in Site Recovery Manager Discussions
‎08-01-2023 11:39 PM
‎08-01-2023 11:39 PM
hpe said it was their SRA that wasn't compatible with SRM 8.7 to me ?? and they were fixing it.

Re: SRM / SRA Nimble Storage issue

by Contributor in Site Recovery Manager Discussions
‎07-30-2023 07:20 AM
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‎07-30-2023 07:20 AM
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Hi you do Not need to wipe anything , we just turned off the new 8.7 virtual servers , and setup 2 new 8.6 srm virtual servers, registered with vcentre and installed the SRA , we only have 4 protecti... See more...
Hi you do Not need to wipe anything , we just turned off the new 8.7 virtual servers , and setup 2 new 8.6 srm virtual servers, registered with vcentre and installed the SRA , we only have 4 protection plans so it was very quick to rebuild these ,  the virtual servers are still on the same replicated nimble volumes . So they get picked up by srm once you add the volumes / storage back into SRM hope that answers your questions !  

Re: SRM / SRA Nimble Storage issue

by Contributor in Site Recovery Manager Discussions
‎07-22-2023 06:14 AM
‎07-22-2023 06:14 AM
Hi , yes we have done the same, downgraded to 8.6 and it all works fine now. Although the VMWARE support matrix says its not a supported combination it all seems to work. The HP engineer said its a... See more...
Hi , yes we have done the same, downgraded to 8.6 and it all works fine now. Although the VMWARE support matrix says its not a supported combination it all seems to work. The HP engineer said its an issue with the HP SRA, I still have my case open with HP, which they are aware of and are fixing. But no ETA. As soon as the new SRA is available i will drop a note on here . Cheers Mark

Re: SRM / SRA Nimble Storage issue

by Contributor in Site Recovery Manager Discussions
‎07-08-2023 12:40 AM
‎07-08-2023 12:40 AM
Hi i do have the logs from SRM.  This is what HPE replied to me:- Speaking to engineering, they believe that SRM version in use is the issue. We currently dont support NVMe and they believe this is ... See more...
Hi i do have the logs from SRM.  This is what HPE replied to me:- Speaking to engineering, they believe that SRM version in use is the issue. We currently dont support NVMe and they believe this is the issue. 2023-05-31T11:37:39.071+01:00 warning vmware-dr[01117] [SRM@6876 sub=Storage opID=6ef3a517-c4fd-44f8-9f2e-ef34f706de96-failover:c955:6e2e:7d54:50bf] Failed to obtain initiators for NVMe access group 'domain-c26-nvme' 2023-05-31T11:37:39.071+01:00 warning vmware-dr[01117] [SRM@6876 sub=Storage opID=6ef3a517-c4fd-44f8-9f2e-ef34f706de96-failover:c955:6e2e:7d54:50bf] Access group 'domain-c26-nvme' doesn't contain any initiators what i don't understand is we are not using NVMe ?? and I don't have any initiator groups or access group domain with that name ?? regards Mark

Re: SRM / SRA Nimble Storage issue

by Contributor in Site Recovery Manager Discussions
‎07-08-2023 12:35 AM
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‎07-08-2023 12:35 AM
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Hi, i have an open P1 ticket with HPE.  They are saying their SRA isn't compatible with Vcentre 8 and SRM 8.7, and they are in the process of writing a new and updated SRA. They asked if we could dow... See more...
Hi, i have an open P1 ticket with HPE.  They are saying their SRA isn't compatible with Vcentre 8 and SRM 8.7, and they are in the process of writing a new and updated SRA. They asked if we could downgrade, but this isn't possible for us. I think personally this is a red herring, and there is a bug in their SRA with the photon version of SRM.  I am 100% sure we were using a much earlier version of SRM when we had this issue, we upgraded to 8.7 in order to see if it resolved the issue we are seeing. in the mean time we are going to try and use vsphere replication instead, not ideal but its the only choice we have. I would be interested in your setup and the issue you are seeing, ???  perhaps if you have a ticket number with HP they can be linked internally to HPE, and help put pressure to resolve the issue.

SRM / SRA Nimble Storage issue

by Contributor in Site Recovery Manager Discussions
‎05-17-2023 04:54 AM
‎05-17-2023 04:54 AM
Hi we had SRM replication fully running between our primary and secondary sites, we have done many test failovers and fail back with reprotection with no issues at all, Monday we lost power at our ... See more...
Hi we had SRM replication fully running between our primary and secondary sites, we have done many test failovers and fail back with reprotection with no issues at all, Monday we lost power at our main site, so the nimble storage just powered off, no graceful shutdown. we got everything back up, but now when I try to initiate a test SRM replication with a test VM I get this error on SRM. 'Failed to promote replica devices. failed to promote replica consistency group 'NIM-SRM-TEST02'. Skipping failover operation for device group 'NIM-SRM-TEST02' As initiators were missing for one or more hosts. I don't see any missing initiators on the 2 nimbles.  i have deleted all the Replicated volumes, and rebuild the replication partner setup. including in SRM. but its still failing with this error. I am a bit lost as to whats going on, we are using the latest version of SRM, and SRA storage adapter. SRM versions are the same, but Vcenter is running 7 at one site and 8 at the other, as we are in the process of upgrading. any suggestions appricated. !