Tag: VMware SRM

Recently we had to record video and one of my collegeau did an excellent job of recording the SRM 6.0 Demo This video includes following Test Recovery and Clean up to simulate Test  Planned Migration to DR simulating scheduled maintenance and Planned Migration back to PROD once maintenance is completed …Continue readingVMware SRM 6 Demo

This is Part 2 of Configuration of VMware Site Recovery Manager 6.0 Adding Array Manager and Enable array pair In this Step we will be adding Storage appliance IP address as per their respective sites. Go to Sites, click on one of the sites, Under Summary, click on Add array…Continue readingSite Recovery Manager 6.0 Configuration Continued

This is Part 1 of Configuration of VMware Site Recovery Manager 6.0 Granting access for pairing the sites Below Steps for granting access to Administrator Group should be followed on both the ends i.e. it should be added on Production and DR. Login to vCenter web Client. Go to Administrator…Continue readingSite Recovery Manager 6.0 Configuration

Installation of VMware Site Recovery Manager 6.0 Pre-requisites for VMware Site Recovery Manager Installation New Database has to be created on MS SQL 2008/2012 R2. Create an SQL Service account with appropriate permissions Create an ODBC connection to the newly created database Download the SRM and SRA installable Install Java…Continue readingSite Recovery Manager 6.0 Installation

Setup VMware SRM 5.1.2 / 5.5.1 Observation We are able to protected more VMs then the license capacity. For e.g. SRM License is for 75 VMs however we are able to protect 77 VMs. PFB screenshot for the same Analysis When analyzed we found that logic has changed. If we…Continue readingVMware SRM Licensing Bug

Site Recovery Manager 5.8.0.1 fixes the following issues: Port groups on specific switches are not displayed when configuring network mappings in Site Recovery Manager 5.8, when a vSphere Distributed Switch contains more than 19 port groups.  This fix resolves the issue described in When configuring Network Mappings within VMware vCenter…Continue readingSRM 5.8 Express Patch Release

Setup VMware vCenter 5.1 Update 2 ESXi 5.1 Update 2 SRM 5.1 Update 2 Issue Unable to do Site Pairing due to certificates not matching Analysis Post discussion we figured out that Production side vCenter was installed with custom certificates We researched to find that if a vCenter is using…Continue readingVMware SRM with Certificates

Setup  VMware vCenter 5.1 Update 2 ESXi 5.1 Update 2 SRM 5.1 Update 2 Issue  Error – Timed out waiting for VMware Tools after XXX seconds Analysis  One of the reasons why VM Guest startup and VM tools response may timeout is the fact the VM may be trying to…Continue readingSRM VMware Tools Time Out