Re: VSAN with SRM inquiries
The key thing you are trying to avoid by putting the VR target replicas in the same folder as the placeholders is the confusion of having multiple folders with similar names. If they are placed in the...
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Thanks Gs!I don't think you can specify a folder for placeholders, at least I've never seen that option in SRM GUI (maybe some advanced parameter / cmdline magic...?).Anyway, developing further the...
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Re: VSAN with SRM inquiries
That is correct. Keep in mind that as I stated before the "potential issues on reprotect" are confusion in having multiple folders in the same location with similar names. To prevent this you would...
View ArticleExpand disk in vSphere SRM protected environment
Hello everyone,I am new to this community and SRM. I want to expand 1 disk on 4 different virtual machines all are protected by SRM. Out 4 disks 3 are thick lazy zero and 1 is thick eager zero disk. I...
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Hi kotiadinesh and welcome to the community The answer as many do is: "it depends" Perhaps if you could tell us a little about your environment. Thinks like: are you using array based replication or...
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Hi ThompspG thanks for quick reply, we have SRM with vSphere replication.
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Re: Expand disk in vSphere SRM protected environment
Follow these directions:VMware KB: Resizing the virtual machine disk files (.vmdk files) during replication that are protected by vSphere re…VMware KB: Resizing virtual machine disk files that are...
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Hello gs_khalsa, Thanks for the reply.I have already gone through above links and had a doubt whether a single disk to be renamed at destination or entire VM. We are still working on this, will update...
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SRM & vCenter on same server
I have two relatively small sites (<20 VMs per site). Both sites have their own vCenter installation on a VM. I have decided to implement SRM. Although not recommended for larger production sites -...
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Hi there, It is what we do - have around 150 VMs that we failover regularly. When I say regularly we have a DR exercise every 6 months where we fail production to our secondary site are run there for a...
View ArticlevSphere Replication vs SRM
What are the basic factors that would lead me to choose vsphere replication or SRM in a customers environment?
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The biggest things to consider, as with any DR/BC design is Recovery Time and Recovery Point Objectives. With SRM specifically, if you have a homogeneous storage environment that allows the use of SRAs...
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Re: vSphere Replication vs SRM
Are you asking for a comparison of array-based replication with SRM vs. vSphere Replication and SRM (SRM can use both) or are you asking about the differences between vSphere Replication standalone...
View ArticlevCenter/SRM upgrade to 6.1
All, We recently upgraded our vCenter server from 5.5 Update 2 to 6.0 Update1b. Everything with the PSC and vCenter upgrade went swimmingly. The problem that we are running into is with SRM. We...
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Hi,after upgrade you have to Reconfigure pairing between sites or repair connection from one site to another. This should be one time effort and it's needed to renew the certificates information in SRM...
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After add new Replication server -no replication
Hi all.Today i have a problem after add new Replication server to SRM. All my protectd VM have status Error (PRO Violation).If i try reconfigure VM, i have no target location How i can restore location...
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Daniel,Thank you for your response. You are correct, that was the answer. Initially when we performed the upgrade to SRM 6.0 we were able to pair from SITEA to SITEB but not in reverse. When pairing...
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I'm not clear what change you made. You added a vSphere Replication appliance to ? Did you add an additional VR appliance, as you already had one? Is it an "RPO" violation error? If so, it means that...
View ArticleMissing Alarm Definitions - Fresh Install
I have done a number of installations of SRM 5.8, 6.0, and 6.1 over the past year or two. Every time I have done the installation, I have noticed that the SRM alarm definitions do not show up in the...
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