SRM & vSphere Replication (version 6.1) - Reprotect
So I've run a recovery plan (single VM for now) without error (planned migration). I have my original VM powered off in my production site and my recovered VM running in my DR site. I'm trying to run a...
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one vcenter with srm
i have one vCenter 6 and i have 2 clusters on it . i want to install srm 6 on this infrastructure . is it possiple ?
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Test Failover fails with error: Error - Failed to create snapshots of replica...
Hello I am testing a fail over but gets an error :Error - Failed to create snapshots of replica devices. Failed to create snapshot of replica device 300. SRA command 'testFailoverStart' failed for...
View ArticlePoint SRM to new vCenter
Hello everyone, i need to deploy a new vcenter that will be replacing an existing one with SRM installed on it. My doubts here are: Can i point the existing SRM installation to a new vCenter?How can i...
View ArticleSRM v6 error during install - failed to register SRM with PSC
Hi, has anyone had an issue with error failed to register SRM with Platform Services Controller and how was the issue resolved?
View ArticleSRM upgrade path
Hi, We currently using SRM 5.5 with vCenter 5.5.May I know if what is the shortest path upgrade to vCenter 5.5 U3e with SRM 5.8.1? Since we know vCenter 5.5 U3b would break the SSLv3, so we plan on...
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Reprotect fails with error
My failover worked fine and I'm trying to reprotect. But failed with following errorError - Failed to reverse replication for device '300'. SRA command 'reverseReplication' failed for device '300'....
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How to get SrmFolder from MoRef using PowerShell & SRM API
I'm trying to list my Protection Groups which are nested in folders. I can get the parent folder MoRef easily enough: $srmapi.Protection.ListProtectionGroups()[0].GetParentFolder().MoRef But how can I...
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Test/Recovery freezes at Pre-synchronize strorage step at 100%
I'm trying to perform test and recovery of a vm and it freezes at 100% during synchronizing storage. I have attached a snapshot of the issue. Any idea why is this happening?
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VMs which have disks on two different arrays
VM disks residing in two different array's can be protected by SRM or not?Scenario 1. Both array's are of one vendor (EMC-EMC)Scenario 2. Both array's are from different vendor (Netapp-EMC)
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Unable to delete protection
HelloI did fail over from protected site to recovery site. But when I tried to re-protect, it gave me errors related to replays. Since it was test vm, I deleted recovery plan and then trying to remove...
View Articlevsphere replication without vCenter
Is it mandatory to have vcenter to deploy vsphere replication? I don't need srm in my environment.
View ArticleTechnical Reason of using two different ports number in vsphere replication
for full replication port number in vr is 31031for changes replications port number is 44046 Why VMware uses two different ports? Why can't this is only single port for both replications? Any technical...
View ArticleReplicate to Cloud Provider
Is this option is only for DR to vCloud Air? Can it be used for DR to any other VMware Cloud Provider?
View ArticleVM Files not replicated by vsphere replication
As .vswp is one of file that is not replicated by VR, What are the other files are not replicated by the vr?
View ArticleHow VR decides the ESXi in Recovery Site for Writing the data in to datastores
Lets take an example we have shared datastores in recovery site and that datastore is visible to all the esxi hosts of the recovery site and that is datastore is target for vm replication. Now question...
View ArticleService Name on VR for Network Compression of VR Data
Is there any service running on VR appliance or esxi which is responsible for Network Compression of VR Data?
View ArticleVM Disk Resizing challenge with Array based replication
In one of the KB, It is clearly mentioned about VM disk resizing challenge with vsphere replication but i am unable to find any KB where same challenge is mentioned with ABR. Is it same with ABR...
View ArticleMechanism to check data consistency in vsphere replication
Is there any mechanism to check the data that is replicated in recovery site is consistent or not? It does change block tracking evey time (Subsequent Replications) by using block by block comparison...
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