Re: Plan Recovery Issue
I had the issue Cannot process consistency group 'test' with role 'target' when expected consistency group role 'promotedTarget'Which happened after I ran SRM in disaster recovery mode.I had the...
View ArticleRe: Unable to Protect RDM LUN
Are the 2 LUNs in the same consistency group? Can you post some screenshots?
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Well I'm new to these things. If you can help me in detail, please let me know what are consistency groups. We are using Dell compellent Enterprise manager SRA and I don't see anything saying...
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Re: Unable to Protect RDM LUN
A consistency group would be a group of LUNs that are replicated together. Here is a detailed explaination: What are storage consistency groups? - Server Fault I don't know how to use/configure them...
View ArticleRe: Configuring different IP addresses for test as opposed to a recovery
Hi again, I have created two separate recovery plans, I have then gone into the 'Test plan' and amended the IP Customization for one of my VMs to manual and set a static IP, however when I then go to...
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Thanks for the links you provided. However we came to know that the SRA we are using doesn't support consistency groups. When we contacted or storage vendor, they asked us to contact VMware technical...
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Re: Configuring different IP addresses for test as opposed to a recovery
After reading the SRM documentation regarding IP customization i found this extra comment which I was not aware of:"You associate customization settings with protected virtual machines. As a result, if...
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As the manual says a VMs recovery settings are the same in different recovery plans. This is regardless of the type of IP customization used. Keep in mind that the idea of a recovery plan test is to...
View ArticleRe: Configuring different IP addresses for test as opposed to a recovery
Please remove the current "correct answer" as the correct answer so that other people looking at this exchange aren't confused. This: "I think the only possibility is to use two different recovery...
View ArticleRe: Unable to Protect RDM LUN
I'm not familiar with that. Have you read through the documentation for your SRA? There are likely some whitepapers/guides from Dell on using SRM with Compellent. I see a fair number of links when I...
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Re: Unable to Protect RDM LUN
To better understand how SRM works with RDMs read this: Site Recovery Manager and Raw Device Mappings (RDMs) | Cody Hosterman
View ArticleRe: SRM Reprotect is getting failed after recover to DR site
Hi fboulianne. I'm seeing the exact same thing. I had to manually do a refresh of the Array managers -which is not ideal. Did you change some timeout to get around this refresh workaround? Thanks Ian
View ArticleRe: SRM Reprotect is getting failed after recover to DR site
Sounds like this was a specific bug: Performing a reprotect operation in vCenter Site Recovery Manager fails with NetApp FAS/V-Series (SRA) Version 2.0.x (20…What version of SRA do you have?As far as I...
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Re: SRM Reprotect is getting failed after recover to DR site
Hi p_hall. That bug looks to definitely be the culprit. We're running the 3.0 SRA for cmode though. I doubt it's been resolved.
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PowerCLI Roles / permissions SRM
Hey Guys, Any idea if you can add permissions to SRM sites via powercli? the SRM API's dont show any permissions. As of right now our environment isnt in ELM and i had to create a script that would...
View ArticlevSphere Replication on a SAN STorage
Can I use vSphere Replication for SRM if my underlying SAN storage is using synchronous replication?
View ArticlePlanned Migration
Does storage snapshot still needed during planned migration?Or SRM will use the underlying SAN storage technology to accomplish this? SAN storage is being used is EMC VMAX and feature that being used...
View ArticleRe: Planned Migration
Yes - seems to create this as a recovery position if required. I would definitely be working with EMC on this as you have a high-end array there but basically you will need SRDF and TimeFinder Snap at...
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