SRM 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...
View ArticleVMs 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)
View ArticleUnable 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...
View ArticleSRM and PSC
Now in version 6 i have observed SRM is integrated with PSC not vCenter. My question is If multiple vCenter Servers are connected with the PSC, then will SRM be integrated wth both the vCenters?
View ArticleVM protection that is the part of multiple consistency group
if a vm is using multiple consistency group, can it be protected with srm?
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No SRM icon in vSphere Web Client
As in case of shared recovery site, multiple srm servers can be linked with same vcenter by using the custom plugin ID. I did this installation successfully, but after this in web client srm icon...
View Articlesrm install with different vcenter
i have vcenter 6 and vcenter 5.5 . is it possible to install srm and configuration for 2 different site A site has vcenter 5.5 u1B site has vcenter 6
View ArticleSRM - preserving IP address when failing over VM
Hello I have a query in relation to the SRM failover. We have an appliance which has the IP address of the VM hard coded, This appliance exist in both Site A (10.3.20.0/24) and Site B (10.2.20.0/24),...
View ArticleDelete protection groups
Hello I ran in to a issue with protection groups. I set up srm for two vm's. Fail over was success. But it failed to re-protect. Reason, there were corrupt replays on storage arrays. So reverse...
View ArticleNeed to regularly reconfigure pairing - by design?
SRM 6.1.1 build 38846202 SRM sites deployed/paired.vCenter 6.0 U2, build 3634794Single SSO domain, single SSO logical site.External PSC deployment model.Everything working fine, install went fine, but...
View ArticleFailback with different recovery options than Failover
Hi. I have recovery plans that during failover will run a script to shutdown vm's in Protected datacentre, that are outside the protection of SRM (i.e. vm's that are not protected due to specific...
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