Hot DR Site Replication with SRM
Hi Gurus, I am in the process of designing SRM solution to a customer. The customer needs to replicate some vm's from Primary Site to DR Site. Some other vm's from DR Site to Primary Site. In my...
View ArticleQuestion about EMC array storage group on SRM recovery site
We are in the process of setting up VMware SRM 5.1 in our environment with two EMC VNX storage arrays and I have some questions.Our two sites each have a VNX 5700 array. LUN replication from our...
View ArticleCan we move VM's online between 2 different vCenters with different Versions?
Hi All, I want to move some VM's from from one vCenter to another without having the downtime. These 2 vCenters are at different geographic locations. I have one vCenter with 4.1 Version and another...
View ArticleVAAI and HDS P-VOLs?
I'm noticing that only the WRITE SAME "primitive" appears to be working on our HDS P-VOLs on VSP with microcode 70-02-08/00. EXTENDED COPY and whatever ATS tries to do are failing. I think ATS uses...
View ArticleOne to Many SRM Scenario
Any update on when One to Many SRM scenario will be supported?
View ArticleBuilding SRM 5.1 into Existing vSphere 5.1 Environment
As the name suggest, this is my latest assignment. First I will say the SSO piece seemed cumbersome when I installed v5.1 (without considering SRM as it wasnt a glimmer in my eye yet). Im simply...
View ArticleAdding A Tab to SiteRecoveryManager.RecoveryPlans
Hi All, I'm trying to add a tab in the vSphere Client side to HomeView.Applications.SiteRecoveryManager.RecoveryPlansProbably I'm using wrong names for SiteRecoveryManager and RecoveryPlans. I added a...
View ArticleRecovery Plans
Hello, I'm working with SRM 5.1 using array based replication. I have a question concerning recovery plans. We have a very basic setup. We have a single datastore that is being replicated to our...
View ArticleSRA Requirement for Multiple Storage/Site
Hello! Can one SRA manage multiple storage of the same type?
View ArticleRPO Violated by 1 minute - GetCurrentRpoViolation log entry
Hi, We are running SRM 5.0.1 which is successfully replicating data to our DR site across a 1Gbps link. Recovery plans work fine and connectivity between the sites is stable, yet we seem to be getting...
View ArticleHow to avoid re-install of SRM?
Folks,Those who have done SRM know can occasionally "break" in unpleasant ways. Sometimes it's a simple cleanup but sometimes SRM breaks in ways that force a complete reinstall (ugh!) which is why I'll...
View ArticleExtending Disks on Source
If I extend a disk on the source VM those changes are replicated to the recovery side correct? I don't have to reconfigure protection or anything?
View ArticleSite pairing failed in SRM 5.1
Hi, I have installed Vcenter 5.1 and SRM 5.1 in two Virtual Machines in my Test environment. When I try to pair site using " Configure Connection " button it prompts for Vcenter Server address and then...
View ArticleSeeding remote site
Hi all I'm setting up SRM with vSphere Replication at the moment. I don't want to do the initial replication over the network so I plan to copy all the VMs to a USB drive, take it to the remote site,...
View ArticlevSphere Replication - Configuration in Progress...
Hi all I'm running SRM and vSphere Replicationon 5.0. We have about 45 VMs replicating happily using it. The other day I wanted to adjust the RPO of a test/UAT server up to 24 hours as we're really...
View ArticlevSphere replication in SRM 5.1
I know that vsphere replicaion support reprotect and failback in SRM 5.1. In our environment, I am using vcenter 5 u1 to manage several esxi 5.0 u1 hosts. I am planning to deploy SRM. Thinking which...
View ArticleInfrastructure requirement for builind DR using SRM
Hi all, I just have some experiences in install, configure, manage in ESXi hosts and vCenter (version 5.x)Now My customer want to build DR site and want to implement SRM.So I hope someone can guide me...
View ArticleDeploying the VRMS
Hello, I am receiving an error when trying to deploy the VRMS from within vCenter: Line 151: Unsurpported section 'http://www.vmware.com/schema/ovf}vServiceDependencySection Any ideas ona fix please...
View ArticleHow to migrate VRM to another ESX server/cluster
we have our VRM and VR servers up and running with vReplication in an ESX cluster. The network manager has decided to split the the ESX server and create a new cluster for our servers, leaving the old...
View ArticleSRM and vReplication Help Needed
Hello all. We are new here and desperately need help with SRM and vReplication. We had a case open with VMware, but apparently we are an important enough customer as we have been down for over 3...
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