-
Myth busted: vCenter Site Recovery Manager using vSphere Replication for Datacenter migration causes data loss
It seems there is a lot of confusion out there on how vCenter Site Recovery manager work with vSphere Replication when used for a data center migration, thanks in big part to competing products FUDs. Many admins still believe that using vSphere Replication with vCenter Site Recovery Manager for data center migration you will still…
-
Qtree SnapMirror warnings and limitations with SRM
While setting up SRM with NetApp 6290 at a customer site, my customer was using Qtrees and Qtree SnapMirror which caused us few issues. If you are setting up SRM and using NetApp Qtree SnapMirror, there is quite few warnings, limitations, and best practices that you will need to be aware of. I have listed…
-
SRM Error: XmlValidateException Element SourceDevice is not vaild for content model: Source Device.
While setting up vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0.3 with NetAPP 6290 filer, & in particular at the stage where I try to enable the array pair and after I fixed the timeout error I have documented in the following post: SRM Time Out (300 seconds) while waiting for SRA to complete discoverDevice Command, I have faced…
-
SRM Time Out (300 seconds) while waiting for SRA to complete discoverDevice Command
While setting up vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0.3 with NetAPP storage, & in particular at the stage where I try to enable the array pair I was welcomed with the following error: SRM Time Out (300 seconds) while waiting for SRA to complete ‘discoverDevice’ Command. This SRM SRA Adapter error is not limited…
-
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Service failed to start
While installing VMware SRM 5.0.3 at a customer site, both nodes installations have given me the following error right before the installation completion: Failed to start service. Details: VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Service failed to start. Check that all required Windows services are running. View the server log for more information. Press Retry to…
-
VMware SRM NetAPP SRA required user permissions
While setting up VMware SRM for a customer lately with a NetAPP filer, I have faced the challenge where the customer wanted to use the minimum required permissions for the user the Solution Replication Adapter (SRA) use to connect to the NetApp filer. At minimum the customer wanted to use a different account from root…
-
VMware Site Recovery Manager Licensing FAQs
Lately many questions about VMware Site Recovery Manager Licensing has been raising up specially ones related to VMware vSphere Essential, vSphere Essential Plus, and other acceleration kits. Getting answer to these were always a hassle to find till I found this magical document with answers to many of these. You can find the document at:…
-
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 4 has just been released
I have a great news today from VMware. They have released the new version of VMware Site Recovery Manager SRM which will support VMware vSphere. This release of SRM had been long waited by many of us who upgraded, or already planning to upgrade to vSphere. I thought I will share the good news with…
-
VMware Site Recovery Manager, Automated Virtualized DR
By June, Site Recovery Manager will be available. This product made by VMware is intended to simplify the planning and testing of the disaster recovery project. According to VMware, The planning of recovery after a disaster traditionally exposes companies to significant risk of prolonged failure because too cumbersome to implement, cumbersome and difficult to maintain…