Re: No VMs appear in the Create Protection Group Wizard
Just to make sure, how you're replicating the VMs ? Using vSphere Replication or "Openfiler" ?
View ArticleRe: SRM 5.8 Failback/Reprotect
Do you have correct resource mappings and placeholder datastore configured on "both" sites ?
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Hi Richardson,Both I would hope.And feel free to educate me on this.The way I understood it to be (and I can't say I read the whole PDF) was that vSR was one option and Array based replciation the...
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I'm not sure if you will be able to use SRM with replicated volumes by Openfiler, since I believe that there is no Storage Replication Adapter to Openfiler... this way, you should replicate your VMs...
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Is it straight forward to replicate the VMs with vSR?I'm unclear of the vSR process but will reopen the installation guide if need be.I knid of knew going in to it that Openfiler might be a stretch but...
View ArticleRe: SRM 5.8 Failback/Reprotect
I have placeholder datastores configured at my DR/remote site only. Resource mappings are configured on the source site but no reverse mapping. Like I said running a full Planned Migration works with...
View ArticleRe: SRM 5.8 Failback/Reprotect
Take a look here: How Site Recovery Manager Performs Reprotect How Site Recovery Manager Performs Reprotect The reprotect process involves two stages. Site Recovery Manager reverses the direction of...
View ArticleRe: No VMs appear in the Create Protection Group Wizard
Take a look here for step by step vSphere Replication installation and configuration with SRM: Installing SRM 5.1.1 & vSphere Replication – Part 2 | VMFocus
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Great.I'll go through that.Richardson thank you very much for your time and expertise.I really appreciate it. Patsfan
View ArticleRe: SRM 5.8 Failback/Reprotect
When you initiate the reprotect process, Site Recovery Manager instructs the underlying storage arrays or vSphere Replication to reverse the direction of replication This is very...
View ArticleRe: SRM 5.8 Failback/Reprotect
Maybe the VMware engineer is think about SRM 5.0 and vSphere Replication 1.0 that not supports reprotect, see: After you perform a recovery by using SRM, you can restore the protected and recovery...
View ArticleRe: SRM 5.8 Test Plan Failed
First interrogate the logs - VMware KB: Location of Site Recovery Manager log files
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Hi Robinson,I just has a chance to look at the link this morning.Great link and explains it really well.VMware should do more of this when putting together the installation PDF for a product.You know...
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My apologies Richardson.I called you 'Robinson'.Getting your name mixed up with the Yankees Robinson Cano (the baseball player and member of the 'Evil Empire') Patsfan (and RedSox too)
View ArticleSRM 5.8 - VMWare Tools Timeout during test / Starting all priorities at once?
We recently upgraded to SRM 5.8.0.1. When performing a test recovery of our recovery plan, I see a lot of VMs that fail to recover with "Error timed out waiting for VMWare tools" or "Timed Out waiting...
View ArticleRe: Basic questions for SRM installation
Sorry for the late reply guys and thank you for your answers !! I'm about to start a new job, please give me a moment before coming back. Regards,Dany
View ArticleBasic features question
Hi I'm trying to build a project with features of SRM and I would need to know if you can get full features of SRM inside a vcenter essentials +. At location A you have 2 hosts (a & b) and 1 san.At...
View ArticleRe: SRA command 'queryInfo' didn't return a response
It's possibile that the issue is due to .net framework not installed: Site Recovery Manager: HP P4000 SRA "Failed to load SRA" - VirtualLifestyle.nl
View ArticleRe: protecting vCenter server with standard vSphere replication
Hello, SRM (Site Recovery Manager) avoids the "chicken/egg" problem by requiring that users have a separate vCenter server installation at their recovery/secondary site. SRM is about protecting...
View Articleprotecting vCenter server with standard vSphere replication
Hello, Standard vSphere 5.5 environment, 1 vCenter server based on a Windows 2012 server.1 Datacenter, sites as folders as they are connected via 1Gbit connections. ESXi hosts have Enterprise license....
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