VMware SRM Protected VMs Count
Setup VMware vCenter 5.X VMware SRM 5.X Particulars We manage Customers DR environment using VMware SRM. Currently VMware PowerCLI doesn’t have any SRM specific cmdlets so we have written this script in Python to capture following details and export them in a Excel File. Number of Protected VMs Protected VM…
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…
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…
VMware SRM 5.0 Permissions Controls
While performing Lab testing we came across strange behavior which we discussed with VMware. Just sharing with every one Setup We are having SRM 5.0 Setup on vSphere 5.0 We have done initial paring using Administrator Account We have created Customised Recovery.Admin account to perform failover Behavior When we initiate…
SRM Updates – 5.1.0.1 and 5.0.2 Released
What\’s New VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0.2 offers the following improvements: Added support for protection and IP customization of the following guest operating systems: Windows 8 (32-bit and 64-bit) Windows Server 2012 (32-bit and 64-bit) RHEL Server 6.2 and 6.3 (32-bit and 64-bit) Ubuntu 12.04 NOTE: To protect virtual…
vSphere Replication for existing SRM 5.0
Procedure Configure Database for VRM and VR Servers Configure Storage for VRMS and VR Configure Storage for the Protected VMs Install vSphere Replication in SRM Setup Configure VSR Configure Replication for VMs Create Protection Group Create/Modify Recovery Plan
SRM DR IP Customizer
Navigate to following Path C:\\Program File \\VMware\\VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manger\\bin Generate the CSV file using following command dr-ip-customizer.exe –vc 172.16.18.3 –cfg ..\\config\\vmware-dr.xml –i –cmd generate –o ProtectedVMs.csv It will prompt for the user name and password Once completed it will generate the csv file in the same folder where…