Best Practices VMware SRM
Synopsis We have faced lot of issues while performing failover (Test/Actual) due to timeouts and others. We have now standardize the configuration.Below mentioned are the values we configure it to avoid issues. Setup VMware vCenter 5.X VMware SRM 5.X Protocol – FC/ iSCSI/NFS Configuration Steps Step 1) Login to vCenter…
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SRM Array Pairs Devices doesn\’t detect source volumes
We were facing issues while enabling Array Pairs in SRM 5.0 . PFB screenshot for the same. We performed following steps Setup VMware SRM 5.0 NetApp FAS 3070 vfiler NetApp SRA 2.0.1 Error \”Internal error: std::exception \’class Dr::Xml::XmlValidateException\’ \”Element \’SourceDevices\’ is not valid for content model: \'(SourceDevice,)\’\”.\” Resolution This is…
ESXi Upgrade from 5.0 to 5.1
Procedure Insert the ISO by connecting to Console. We have Dell Server so I used iDRAC You will get following options and you have to select the first option Upgrade ESXi, Preserve VMFS datastore Install ESXi, preserve VMFS datastore Install ESXi, overwrite VMFS datastore
Upgrade vCenter from 5.0 to 5.1
Procedure Install Single Sign on. This requires Database instance. For Demo we have used SQL Express We need to upgrade Inventory Service Upgrade vCenter Single Sign on (SSO) Installation We will use SQL Express for the Demonstration Inventory Service Upgrade vCenter Server Upgrade