Re: Relocate DC using SRM?
SRM is not EXACTLY intended to do this, but you can use the vSphere Replication feature to replicate the VMs to the other site without needing a SAN based replica. Regarding the AD machine, just be...
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Re: Relocate DC using SRM?
Oh, sorry, misunderstood the AD thing - thought that by DC you mean AD. But the information is good for your DC migration, anyway
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You most cetainly can use SRM and VMware COnverter to migrate your environment from one location to another - The diefference will be in the amount of time it will take and the cost - with Converter...
View ArticleRe: VM NICs disconnected after failover
Hi, okay... so I had a similar thought to you. We are using a distributed switch with probably around 20 VLANs on different port groups on it. The vDS switch that we were just failing over to for this...
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Re: Relocate DC using SRM?
Marcelo - thanks. Sorry, I should have wrote out data center, not to confuse it with a domain controller haha. The domain controller is probably the only VM that we won't move. Just have to move the...
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It is my undrstanding that vSphere replication is a component of SRM not vSphere 5.1 - I think you are confusing that with vSphere Storage...
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Actually as of vSphere 5.1, the SRM vSphere Replication feature has been broken out of SRM and is now bundled with vSphere (all license levels except Essentials) as a standalone feature. So yes,...
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Bucketenator, exactly. I was planning to upgrade to 5.1 prior to doing any of this. I've been in favor of exploring SRM for some time now. Maybe, this will be my way of getting it approved. Thanks...
View ArticleRe: SRM 5.1 & NetApp - VM with RDM and MSCS
Thank you very much to you both for the answers.There is a MSCS that I can not delete. How could configure replication with rdm disks? I think that the virtual machine and volume by rdm, must be all in...
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Hi,Please note that vSphere Replication cannot replicate RDMs in physical compatibility mode. Michael.
View ArticleRe: SRM 5.1 - bus sharing SCSI drives
Hi,Are you talking about shared VMDK file (not RDM LUN)? Michael.
View ArticleRe: VM NICs disconnected after failover
Hi, I haven't heard of such issue before. Maybe this is a bug / known issue of your version of ESX / vCenter.Have you checked logs of ESX / vCenter and vmware.log to see if there are errors related to...
View ArticleRe: SRM 5.1 - bus sharing SCSI drives
yeah my file servers using shared vmdk file. The SCSI drive that tagged this vmdk is on bus sharing mode...Does SRM support replication of this type of disk or SCSI drive?
View Articleunable to migrate SRM server to different datastore
Our SRM server is a VM. I need to move the SRM VM to a different datastore, but when I do a migrate, it lets me pick the datastore, but then I get an error"this method disabled by 'moref=vm-186" Do I...
View ArticleRecover vm with two different sra's?
Using vsphere & srm 5.0.1 Would it be possible to protect/recover a virtual server using two different sra’s? Scenario would be the OS on a vmfs data store would be protected using IBM SVC SRA....
View ArticleBest practices regarding replication of protected site vsphere database to...
All, The question at hand is do we failover a production sql server that requires protection through SRM 5.1, but houses the current protected site vsphere database. Will we have issues if the sql...
View ArticleRe: unable to migrate SRM server to different datastore
I got it resolved. I tried shutting down the SRM server, but I still couldn't move it. I ended up opening a ticket with VMWare. They came back with a knowledge base article 2008957. Although that...
View ArticleSRM Recovery Between 2 different processor family's
I am trying to find out if it's ok to run SRM between 2 different processor family's and different EVC settings between the clusters. I believe that the systems would potentially require an extra...
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