Re: Mutiple arrays pairing with Single array at DR location
Standard Bidirectional approach: Irrespective of Storage Vendor, all storage arrays replication links (Fabric based) would be bounded with single pair of bidirectional replication links. At any moment...
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Are you referring to extent?VMFS Extents - Are they bad, or simply misunderstood? | VMware vSphere Blog - VMware Blogs Be careful if you are using extent on SRM, make sure your storage supports...
View ArticleNew to SRM. How to prevent APDs?
I am new to SRM so forgive any ignorance. I have played with SRM and vSphere replication, but I will be using an SRA with Dell Compellent in production, which we have not built yet. I am curious if you...
View ArticleRe: Provisioning of lun size with SRM
So that how is it... thanks a lot Bayu Wibowo also for the documentation.
View ArticleRe: New to SRM. How to prevent APDs?
Hi jedijeff,SRM 5.1 Admin guide excerpt: "SRM 5.1 has improved handling of datastores in the all paths down (APD) state. If SRM detects that a datastore on the protected site is in the all paths down...
View ArticleRe: New to SRM. How to prevent APDs?
Thankyou that is good information! I think what I really need to investigate is if the Dell Compellent SRA will unmap the Luns to the esx hosts in the protected site, even in a planned migration. To me...
View ArticleRe: New to SRM. How to prevent APDs?
I found useful information that can help you answer your question - vmLand - The World of Virtualisation: SRM 5 & Dell Compellent Best Practice Procedures
View Articlecommand to reboot a VM
I need to reboot a VM started in the recovery site.So in this VM i've insetreted a POST POWER ON STEP, type COMMAND ON RECOVERED VM and the content is:shutdown /r /t 5 /f The syntax of the command is...
View ArticleRe: Planned migration error the vdisk-to-host mapping was not created because...
we resolve the issue together with the storage team much better to contact your local vendor for the IBM storage and let them do the IBMSVCSRA configuration also for the LUN/datastore mapping for the...
View ArticleRe: command to reboot a VM
Hi Welcome to communities. Could you please update little more error from event log after execution of the command. .
View ArticleRe: command to reboot a VM
Hello vmb01, this should work:C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe /r /t 5 /f || exit 0 Regards,P.
View ArticleSRM and custom certificates
Hi I have 2 vCenter 5.5 servers and both of them have custom CA based certificates (witch I deployed with SSL Certificate Automation Tool).Also I did certificate requests with same tool and now my one...
View ArticleExtra vms after a reprotect
I am using SRM 5.1 and performed a recovery and reprotect on a group of servers this morning. Everything finished successfully but I now have an extra vm in the (new) recovery site that appear to be a...
View ArticleRe: Extra vms after a reprotect
Are you saying that you see the placeholder VMs AND other VMs with the same name at the new recovery site (was production before)? Are they in the same folder/host? Do they have any disks attached to...
View ArticleRe: Extra vms after a reprotect
They are in the same folder as the corresponding placeholder vm. They have no virtual disks attached.A Power on operation fails with the message that no Guest Operating system is specified in the...
View ArticleRe: Extra vms after a reprotect
I've never seen anything like this. Did you had some errors during reprotect operation? I would highly recommend to open an SR with VMware. Please collect support bundles from both SRM instances AND...
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Re: Unable to add array manager, SRA command 'discoverArrays' failed. SRM 5.5
I had a similar problem, but with a slightly different error message. It had to do with SRA talking HTTP to RecoverPoint, and RecoverPoint (4.1 in my case) vRPA's not listening on port 80 .... See Add...
View ArticleUsing array-based replication along with vSphere Replication
Software: SRM 5.1.2 on vCenter 5.1 U1, adding vSphere Replication 5.1.2 into the mix. We are using array-based replication and want to 'cutover' our array-based Protection Groups to vSphere...
View ArticleSRM5.1 IntegrationTests::Recovery - Failing
Folks, I have been running the SRM 5.1 FC certification testing for a SRA plug-in for a couple of days. So far, 83 out 84 tests listed on the workbench have passed without any problems. But, for a...
View ArticleRe: Using array-based replication along with vSphere Replication
Hi, The actual limitation is that SRM does not support having one VM being replicated by both array-based replication and vSphere replication. If you wonder why, imagine a DR scenario where someone...
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