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thomps01
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Should I be manually balancing the placeholder VM's across multiple hosts?

A busy posting day for me on SRM.

I have noticed that when I protect my virtual machines, even though I'm selecting the cluster object in my DR site, all the placeholder VM's appear to be registered on the first host.

What does this mean?

It means that when I run my recovery plan, the virtual machines are started serially because they're all on the same host.

If I migrate the placeholder VM's between the other hosts in the cluster, I get a quicker recovery because the VM's start in a parallel fashion.

I need to understand the behaviour of SRM and what the best practice is regarding placeholder registration.

Ideally I'd like to really push this and create 50 new virtual machines to see what happens.

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