Re: no Site recovery manager icon display on web client
I have reboot the machine, but with no luck.Finally, I unintall/reinstall SRM and got the icon,but with new error occurs when pairing the two SRMs :Failed to connect Site Recovery Manager...
View ArticleRe: bidirectional replication with SRM
Hi,SRM supports many-to-one but not one-to-many topology.To protect sites A and B to site C, you can use shared recovery feature:Setting up the Shared Recovery Site feature in VMware Site Recovery...
View ArticleRe: Announcing the release of vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.8
vSphere Replication is configured at the VM level, all the disks attached to a VM are replicated consistently. vSphere Replication 5.8 does not have the concept of multi-VM consistency groups. All...
View ArticleRe: no Site recovery manager icon display on web client
Can you confirm that the SRM service is running? I believe the web client won't show the SRM icon if the SRM service is stopped as per the release notes -> VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.8 Release...
View ArticleRe: Bug in SRM 5.8 related to count of PortGroups within a dvSwitch while...
the express patch has been released:http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2096080 the problem has been solved.
View ArticleSRM configuration between 3 sites
Hi Guys, I have a plan to setup SRM between 3 sites. we have 2 production sites and one DR site. consider A and B as production site and DR as C site. can we implement the SRM configuration in the...
View ArticleRe: SRM configuration between 3 sites
Yes, you can implement this scenario using the Shared Recovery feature of SRM, take a look at this KB article for more information: VMware KB: Setting up the Shared Recovery Site feature in VMware Site...
View ArticleClone or backup SRM server for tesing new upgrade
HI Folks, I am having some issue going on with SRM 5.5.1.2 version and after having conversation with VMware tech support i need to upgrade SRm with version 5.5.1.4. I dont want to make any changes...
View ArticleRe: Clone or backup SRM server for tesing new upgrade
Where the SRM database is running ? If are running on a separated server, you must remember to copy this database to another server... but if are running on the same server, my recommendation is...
View ArticleRe: Clone or backup SRM server for tesing new upgrade
Thanks Richardson for look into, SRM server and Db both running on separate vm but i'm going to take DB backup file and attached to my test environment, still i'm not sure should i clone SRM vm while...
View ArticleCan we use, Site Recovery Manager between SAN at one site and Local disk of...
Hello Friends, I would like to know if I can use Site Recovery Manager to protect my production setup. To explain -- Site A (Production)- with two ESXi boxes and connected with SAN(EMC) storages...
View ArticleRe: Can we use, Site Recovery Manager between SAN at one site and Local disk...
vSphere Replication (included with Essentials Plus licensing and higher) is all that you would need for replicating your data. It can replicate VMs from disparate storage types. SRM (you'll need...
View ArticleSRM 5.8 icon via WebClient
Installed SRM 5.8 on a separate server from the vCenter, I am accessing the vCenter via webclient from my workstation but I don’t see the SRM icon via webclient. Am I supposed to login to the vCenter...
View ArticleRe: SRM 5.8 icon via WebClient
Hello, No, no additional components should be necessary. Have you looked at some similar threads in the communities, such as: https://communities.vmware.com/message/2428508#2428508 Best regardsStefan
View ArticleManually removing placeholder VMs when protected VM is deleted
We run SRM 5.5. We had some protected VMs we didn't need anymore, so they were deleted from disk (I didn't do it). When I found out about it, I went into SRM and removed protection for these deleted...
View ArticleRe: Manually removing placeholder VMs when protected VM is deleted
HI Yes, its safe to delete the place holder vm . Make sure that the source VM is unprotected and no replication is been configured. Restart the SRM service . Thanks
View ArticleRe: Manually removing placeholder VMs when protected VM is deleted
The source VM does not exist. It is not listed in any Protection Group, either as protected or unprotected. We use array-based replication (EMC RecoverPoint) rather than vSphere replication.
View ArticleRe: Clone or backup SRM server for tesing new upgrade
Hi,What are you trying to achieve by this test?Even if you upgrade SRM alone in your test environment, without vCenter you won't be able to do anything. Michael.
View ArticleSRM Script
Hi, Can I have SRM execute different script for SRM recovery plan test and SRM recovery Plan failover? For example I have created a script to send the following message when testing Message: "DR test...
View ArticleRe: SRM Script
SRM will run the same script for both test and failover. However SRM also provides a set of environment variables that may be used by the scripts, see Environment Variables for Command Steps. The...
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