How to perform upgrade of SRM 5.5 & VR 5.5 to update5.5.1. Need a plan to...
Hi,I would like to know the upgrade process with SRM 5.5 to SRM 5.5.1. we are currently running with replication jobs. I was trying to find out a best possible way to perform the update. I had below...
View ArticleVR Does not support quiescing for Linux VM's. Any Ideas?
Since VR does not support the quiescing of Linux files systems, does any know any tricks to quiescing a Linux file system before refreshing a protected VM?
View ArticleAfter re-running an incomplete recovery, SRM is showing VM Powered Off even...
I have a VPLEX DR1 Metro volume as our datastore in Vsphere and is replicating to a remote site using EMC RecoverPoint. The VPLEX DR1 is a mirrored stretched volume between two clusters. In my...
View ArticleHow can pre VM shutdown Recovery Steps be Added
Any help gratefully received. I want to add some pre power off steps to a recovery plan. But I want to add them to a priority 1 VM after VMs in the other priority groups have been shutdown....
View ArticleSRM and HP EVA 8400/6400 Error
SRM with HP EVA-8400/6400 returns an error when running a test:Error - Failed to create snapshots of replica devices. SRA command 'testFailoverStart' failed. Could not create snapshot Action to create...
View ArticleSRM and RDM with different LUNs at the protected site and recovery site
Hi, I have a question whether the following scenario is supported or not. I have a VM with two virtual disks. One is a normal vmdk and the other one a RDM (virtual or physical). The vmdk is located...
View ArticlevSphere Replication failback licensing requirements?
I am using a Protected and Recovery site. 25 VMs are being replicated. Linked-Mode is not being used. If I failover a VM from site Protected to Recovery and eventually want to fail it back to...
View ArticleVMWare SRM 5.1 and EMC RecoverPoint 4.0
Hello ,I am trying to use SRM with Recover point SRA. i would like to failover my vApp from one the protected site to the recovery site.i was able to successfully configure , test and clean up the...
View Articlehbrsrv daemon on VRMS appliance fails to start - solved
I publish this problem and its resolution in a hope that it will help others. A few months after the installation the HBR component of the SRM partly failed. Our setup has one VRMS and two VRS...
View ArticleProtecting a Metro Cluster with SRM on a third site
Hi there,I was wondering if it would be possible to use a stretched cluster as protected site in Site Recovery Manager to a third recovery site, but I didn't find a real complete answer.Do you know...
View ArticleORA-01578: Oracle datablock corrupted when trying to test a SRM recovery plan
Hi Gurus, We have Oracle DB and Oracle App that is being replicated using vSphere Replication with SRM. After running the test process we get the following error when trying to start the Oracle...
View Articledifference between vmware srm 5.0 and sanovi drm
Hi Team, what is the technical difference between vmware srm 5.0 and sanovi drm ?
View ArticleHardware compatibiltiy for SRM implementation?
Got a question about SRM implementation.... I am trying to find out the specific requirements surrounding hardware required for SRM to be put in place. Does the recovery site need to have the exact...
View ArticleSRM database on Oracle 11g multischema server
Hello, I am working with a customer on a new build of VMware vSphere and the conversation has come up around support for multischema DB servers. The customer's Oracle DBA team said they typically run...
View ArticleExpanding VMDK errors
I can replicated the VMs using vsphere Replication ok, but every time I resize the VMDK on the protected site then try to resynch it back up and trying to reuse the existing vmdk as an initial disk It...
View ArticleExporting current IP customizations
Currently running SRM 5.0.1. We are planning on moving VMs to new datastores using VMFS 5. Is there a way for me to export the current IP customizations and import them back after making all the...
View ArticleAdditional software / license for running SRM ?
Hi, We are currently running 2 sites with vSphere 5.1 Enterprise Edition. There is 1 vCenter Server at the main site. We plan to setup the remote site as DR site by using VMware SRM with SAN...
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SRM tuning: VM with many volumes
Hi guys. I have an Active/DR scenario, with Vmware 5.1, SRM 5.1.2 and Compellent Storage. I have a Virtual Machine protected with 8 attached luns: 8 datastore, each datastore is a different lun....
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Steps to remove SRM 5.0 datastores from Vcentre
Hi We currently have some Datastores that are used with SRM 5.0 Esxi 5.0 and VNX array based replication. We are re designing our SRM datastores and have migrated all VMs off of them onto others, i now...
View ArticleControlling When a Manually Added Recovery Step Runs
Hi, I've added a manual step to a Recovery Plan after "Change Recovery Site Storage to Writeable" to run a command on the SRM server. When I run this Recovery Plan it runs the command CONCURRENTLY...
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