Month: June 2016

Uncategorized

Operations Differences for various vSphere & SRM versions

I wrote an article back in 2013 for vSphere & SRM 5.5  – http://bit.ly/29uhLSh so I thought of updating it with version 6.0 Component 6 5.5 5.1 5 Virtual CPUs per virtual machine (Virtual SMP) 128 64 64 32 RAM per virtual machine 4 TB 1TB 1TB 1TB Virtual disk…Continue readingOperations Differences for various vSphere & SRM versions

Uncategorized

Configuration Maximums for various vSphere & SRM versions

I wrote an article back in 2013 for vSphere & SRM 5.5  http://bit.ly/297GXQ3 so I thought of updating it with version 6.0 Component 6 5.5 5.1 5 4.1 4 Virtual CPUs per virtual machine (Virtual SMP) 128 64 64 32 8 8 RAM per virtual machine 4 TB 1TB 1TB…Continue readingConfiguration Maximums for various vSphere & SRM versions

Uncategorized

Unable to Detect NFS Datastores in VMware SRM

Setup VMware vCenter 5.1 Update 3a SRM 5.1.3 ESXi 5.1 Update3 Issue When trying to configure SRM we were unable to detect NFS datastores Analysis Upon analysis we figured out that there was mismatch between NetApp SRA configuration and ESXi. NetApp  SRA had IP Address of NFS Server and Datastores…Continue readingUnable to Detect NFS Datastores in VMware SRM

Uncategorized

Unable to Protect VM with Snapshots in VMware SRM

Setup VMware vCenter 5.5 Update 3a SRM 5.5.1 ESXi 5.1 Update3 Issue When trying to Configure Protection for the VM it goes till 99% after getting an error. The error details Internal error: Received unexpected exception from multi-site operation. Analysis We tried usual steps such as Restarting SRM Service/Server Ensure…Continue readingUnable to Protect VM with Snapshots in VMware SRM

Uncategorized

VMware SRM Recompute Device Groups Occurence

Setup VMware vCenter 6.0 Update 1b SRM 6.1 NetApp SRA 2.1P1 Issue We have upgraded DR vCenter Server to 6.0 U1b and DR SRM Server to 6.1. After upgrading and configuring SRM we observed that Production vCenter keeps generating Re-compute Device Groups tasks every 30 seconds Analysis The re-computes are…Continue readingVMware SRM Recompute Device Groups Occurence

Uncategorized

VMware SRM Test Failover/ Planned Migration Fails with Error – There are not enough licenses installed to perform the operation (2145522)

Symptoms · Running a Test Recovery from Protected and/or Recovery site fails · Running a Plan Migration  from Protected and/or Recovery site fails · Even after adding the license to the vCenter Server, you see error: There are not enough licenses installed to perform the operation. Cause This issue occurs when a license…Continue readingVMware SRM Test Failover/ Planned Migration Fails with Error – There are not enough licenses installed to perform the operation (2145522)

Uncategorized

Microsoft Convenience Update and VMware VMXNet3 Incompatibilities

Microsoft recently released a “Convenience Update” patch for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. This update has incompatibility issues with virtual machines running on the VMware vSphere virtualization platform. This incompatibility is confined to one specific configuration scenario – It impacts VMs that use the VMware VMXNet3 virtual…Continue readingMicrosoft Convenience Update and VMware VMXNet3 Incompatibilities