Re: Planned migration error the vdisk-to-host mapping was not created because...
Hi Robert, I know this, but as message suggest, seems like the remote copy target are already mapped, because of this I asked if they are :-) Just another question, after the test migration, did you...
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As a test ... we even unmapped everything, tried it again, and again the SRA mapped the volume to the hosts within the V7000, but still got the same error. We did run a successful test migration and a...
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Ok Robert, and let us informed if IBM/VMware provide the solution.
View ArticleRe: Real life disaster recovery
I know how to test it with non production VMs and I've performed such testing - but still real life can be bit different from test scenarios (at least because operators work under pressure).
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Thanks for this link - interesting - as I thought some issues were identified during real recovery with SRM. Even with 'test' option in SRM real life scenario can be more complex... Cheers,
View ArticleRe: Protection Group hung in "Reprotecting..." state
I had the same issue and managed to get rid of it by changing the state in the SRM DB Table dbo.pdr_protectiongroup to 0 in the protected site and to 6 on the recovery site. I got these numbers from my...
View ArticleRe: Unable to login to VRM MOB site
Hi Martin, Thanks for the response, I did read that in the kb article VMware KB: Enabling Replication for a virtual machine may fail due to stale replication group GIDs in the VRM databa… but all the...
View ArticleSRM and IBM DS3524 7.86
Hi all,I'm getting desperate here... 5.5up1, storage 2x2 IBM DS3524 v7.86, 2 sites . Same SRA. Same free space on the DS3524. SAN 1 is ok except one datastore (can't write snapshot on one datastore) I...
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HiAre you trying to perform SRM Test and you get these error messages?If yes, have you activate the Snapshot/FlashCopy on both protected & recovery site?Review the SRA documentation/release notes...
View ArticleRe: how to remove cleanup massage in tasks
Hi All,Not sure how did you solved the issue, I had exactly the same problem with my SRM cleanup. tried to restart all the vmware services, it did not help.I tried to remove the SRM and install again,...
View ArticleRe: SRM and IBM DS3524 7.86
Thank you for caring.Yes I'm trying to perform a SRM test on 2 SANs.SAN1 is almost ok, SAN2 fails. "If yes, have you activate the Snapshot/FlashCopy on both protected & recovery site?"It's...
View ArticleProvisioning of lun size with SRM
Hi Guys i have question in mind. although this is resolved in the latest version of vsphere 5.x to present more than 2 tb lun. the setup is i have a Virtual machine with 2tb VMDK for drive D and 1tb...
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The VMDK is under VMware, if you resize the VMDK on protected site (DC), it should be updated on recovery site (DR) as wellBut the LUN/Datastore creation is under storage array system.You would need to...
View ArticleMutiple arrays pairing with Single array at DR location
In SRM configuration, we have got an issue where in LUN’s for one the clusters in vCenter server are presented from different array (Same vendor) in Protected site whereas their replication is done on...
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thanks for your reply Bayu Wibowo my worry here is the extending of lun I configured in the primary so do you mean that when i do the fail over on the recovery site even i didn't configure the...
View ArticleRe: Provisioning of lun size with SRM
Are you referring to virtual disk on virtual machine or LUN/Datastore at Storage array level?As I mentioned before, if you are referring to LUN on Storage array level, then you would need to check on...
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Re: Mutiple arrays pairing with Single array at DR location
What storage array vendor are you using?You may want to read/review storage documentation for SRM from storage vendor.I have listed some docs here: SRM Deployment Guide Documentations from Storage...
View ArticleRe: Provisioning of lun size with SRM
im referring to the LUN we know in vsphere 5.x we can present more than 2 tb lun. like if i need to create 2tb virtual disk i will create 2.5tb lun (including 25% buffer) without extending of the...
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Re: SRM and IBM DS3524 7.86
On SAN001 there's only one failing datastore (VMFS002), but you can clearly see that all datastores on SAN002 are failing...Any ideas, Thank you.
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