Re: About SRM 5.5 and vsphere replication
Sure can. See: http://pubs.vmware.com/srm-55/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/srm-admin-5-5.pdf Page 32
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Re: About SRM 5.5 and vsphere replication
Hi jfarri, thanks for you reply. I am not sure about the replication seed, the question is : I need to take power off the vm on protected site until the upload on remote site is completed ? I have a vm...
View ArticleRe: About SRM 5.5 and vsphere replication
Hi, The source VM can be powered on.Once the upload at the target site is complete and replication is configured, initial full-sync will start. Checksum will be performed and only different disk blocks...
View ArticleRe: About SRM 5.5 and vsphere replication
Hi Mvalkanov, but at page 32 of document: http://pubs.vmware.com/srm-55/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/srm-admin-5-5.pdf at "Replicate Virtual Machines By Using Replication Seeds" 1 of prequisites is :...
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Hi, I guess that while the source VM is powered on, the disks (-flat.vmdk files) are locked and this is the reason to download the disks while the VM is powered off.The VM can be powered back on as...
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SRM vSphere replication - Missing VMs replica
Hello, I'm using SRM with vSphere Replication and all my VMs are replicated successfully from my protected site to my recovery.site as you can see :My problem is that i don't see all the replica of the...
View ArticleRe: SRM 5.0.1 Reprotect Not Working
This was exactly my problem, even today with SRA 2.2, SRM 5.5, and Equallogic firmware 7.0. However it went even a step further; my original volume had 0 set for snapshot space, as soon as I set to...
View ArticleRe: SRM vSphere replication - Missing VMs replica
Hello and Welcome to VMware Community The behavior you describe is expected. Between VR and SRM, it's SRM's job to create the so called "placeholder VM" at the recovery site. If you replicating a VM...
View ArticleVMware SRM 5.5 "Incompatible device backing specified for device."
I have 2 VmWare vCenters with SRM 5.5 installed.I have MSFC out of 3 nodes with multiple RDM disks connected to machines using seconds SCSI controller in physical mode. Some RDM are replicated using...
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Re: SRM vSphere replication - Missing VMs replica
Hi and thank you for your reply. Could you explain me the action of "Recovery Operation from VR GUI." Because when i log in on the VR server or VR server Appliance the available actions are limited and...
View ArticleRe: SRM vSphere replication - Missing VMs replica
Ah i understand, vm replicas does not appear in inventory still they have not been protected in a protection group from SRM else they appear as managed by VR. Thanks for the infos. Regards.
View ArticleHow to recover VM to a specific ESX host in the Cluster?
I have two sites, Primary and DR. I have a cluster on the primary site which consists of 2 ESX hosts. An 2-node application cluster is created consisting of VM from each of these ESX hosts. The VM are...
View ArticleRe: How to recover VM to a specific ESX host in the Cluster?
This is the only way I have found to do it, i.e. manually migrating the placeholder VMs to the hosts I want them on once SRM has created the placeholder VMs.
View ArticleRe: How to recover VM to a specific ESX host in the Cluster?
Do you do the same before attempting a re-protect after the recovery plan is successful?
View ArticleRe: How to recover VM to a specific ESX host in the Cluster?
AFTER you have done a reprotect you will need to check the hosts the new placeholder VMs are on at the original Protected Site and move them if they are not where you want them. Are you using DRS in...
View ArticleRe: How to recover VM to a specific ESX host in the Cluster?
No. But this workaround is painful and error prone.
View ArticleDo we need a VR server at the protected site ?
Hi there, I wonder if i need to have the same number of VR server at the both site (protected and recovery) or just at the recovery site or SRM use the VR server of the recovery site for the failback...
View ArticleBreak/Stop replication in SRM from VR
Hi, I was suppose migrate VM from one data center to other Data center and it was one time deal so i decided to configure vSphere replication so that i can migrate the VM's.Now i can see the VM's at...
View ArticleRe: Break/Stop replication in SRM from VR
Hi, Which VR version are you using? If 5.1 or next, you can use the vSphere Replication UI in the Web Client. At the vCenter -> Monitor -> Incoming Replications tab you will see "Recover" button...
View ArticleRe: Do we need a VR server at the protected site ?
Hi, The VR server accepts the incoming replication traffic from the source ESXi and should be as close as possible to the hosts that have access to the target datastore(s).If you use VR with SRM, then...
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