Site Recovery Manager Administration
About VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Administration
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Site Recovery Manager Privileges, Roles, and Permissions
How Site Recovery Manager Handles Permissions
Site Recovery Manager and the vCenter Server Administrator Role
Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication Roles
Managing Permissions in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
Assign Site Recovery Manager Roles and Permissions
Site Recovery Manager Roles Reference
Replicating Virtual Machines
Using Array-Based Replication with Site Recovery Manager
Configure Array-Based Replication
Install Storage Replication Adapters
Configure Array Managers
Rescan Arrays to Detect Configuration Changes
Edit Array Managers
Specify an Unreplicated Datastore for Swap Files
Using vSphere Replication with Site Recovery Manager
Replicating a Virtual Machine and Enabling Multiple Point in Time Instances
Using Array-Based Replication and vSphere Replication with Site Recovery Manager
Creating and Managing Protection Groups
About Array-Based Protection Groups and Datastore Groups
How Site Recovery Manager Computes Datastore Groups
About vSphere Replication Protection Groups
Create Protection Groups
Organize Protection Groups in Folders
Add or Remove Datastore Groups or Virtual Machines to or from a Protection Group
Apply Inventory Mappings to All Members of a Protection Group
Configure Inventory Mappings for an Individual Virtual Machine in a Protection Group
Modifying the Settings of a Protected Virtual Machine
Remove Protection from a Virtual Machine
Protection Group Status Reference
Virtual Machine Protection Status Reference
Creating, Testing, and Running Recovery Plans
Testing a Recovery Plan
Test Networks and Datacenter Networks
Performing a Planned Migration or Disaster Recovery By Running a Recovery Plan
Running a Recovery with Forced Recovery
Differences Between Testing and Running a Recovery Plan
Performing Test Recovery of Virtual Machines Across Multiple Hosts on the Recovery Site
Create, Test, and Run a Recovery Plan
Create a Recovery Plan
Organize Recovery Plans in Folders
Edit a Recovery Plan
Test a Recovery Plan
Clean Up After Testing a Recovery Plan
Run a Recovery Plan
Recover a Point-in-Time Snapshot of a Virtual Machine
Cancel a Test or Recovery
Export Recovery Plan Steps
View and Export a Recovery Plan History
Delete a Recovery Plan
Recovery Plan Status Reference
Configuring a Recovery Plan
Recovery Plan Steps
Creating Custom Recovery Steps
Types of Custom Recovery Steps
How Site Recovery Manager Handles Custom Recovery Step Failures
Create Top-Level Message Prompts or Command Steps
Create Message Prompts or Command Steps for Individual Virtual Machines
Guidelines for Writing Command Steps
Environment Variables for Command Steps
Suspend Virtual Machines When a Recovery Plan Runs
Specify the Recovery Priority of a Virtual Machine
Configure Virtual Machine Dependencies
Configure Virtual Machine Startup and Shutdown Options
Customizing IP Properties for Virtual Machines
Manually Customize IP Properties For an Individual Virtual Machine
Customizing IP Properties for Multiple Virtual Machines
Customizing IP Properties for Multiple Virtual Machines By Using the DR IP Customizer Tool
Report IP Address Mappings for Recovery Plans
Syntax of the DR IP Customizer Tool
Structure of the DR IP Customizer CSV File
Modifying the DR IP Customizer CSV File
Examples of DR IP Customizer CSV Files
Run DR IP Customizer to Customize IP Properties for Multiple Virtual Machines
Customize IP Properties for Multiple Virtual Machines by Defining IP Customization Rules
Apply IP Customization Rules to a Virtual Machine
Reprotecting Virtual Machines After a Recovery
How Site Recovery Manager Reprotects Virtual Machines with Array Based Replication
How Site Recovery Manager Reprotects Virtual Machines with vSphere Replication
Preconditions for Performing Reprotect
Reprotect Virtual Machines
Reprotect States
Restoring the Pre-Recovery Site Configuration By Performing Failback
Perform a Failback
Interoperability of Site Recovery Manager with Other Software
Site Recovery Manager and vCenter Server
How Site Recovery Manager Interacts with DPM and DRS During Recovery
How Site Recovery Manager Interacts with Storage DRS or Storage vMotion
Using Site Recovery Manager with Array-Based Replication on Sites with Storage DRS or Storage vMotion
Using Site Recovery Manager with vSphere Replication on Sites with Storage DRS or Storage vMotion
How Site Recovery Manager Interacts with vSphere High Availability
Site Recovery Manager and vSphere PowerCLI
Site Recovery Manager and vCenter Orchestrator
Automated Operations That the vCenter Orchestrator Plug-In for Site Recovery Manager Provides
Protecting Microsoft Cluster Server and Fault Tolerant Virtual Machines
Limitations to Protection and Recovery of Virtual Machines
Advanced Site Recovery Manager Configuration
Reconfigure Site Recovery Manager Settings
Change Site Recovery Manager History Report Collection Setting
Change Local Site Settings
Change Logging Settings
Change Recovery Settings
Change Remote Site Settings
Change the Timeout for the Creation of Placeholder Virtual Machines
Change Storage Settings
Change Storage Provider Settings
Change vSphere Replication Settings
Modify Settings to Run Large Site Recovery Manager Environments
Settings for Large Site Recovery Manager Environments
Modify Settings for Long-Running Tasks
Site Recovery Manager Events and Alarms
How Site Recovery Manager Monitors Connections Between Sites
Configure Site Recovery Manager Alarms
Site Recovery Manager Events Reference
Site Status Events
Protection Group Events
Recovery Events
Storage and Storage Provider Events
Licensing Events
Permissions Events
SNMP Traps
Collecting Site Recovery Manager Log Files
Collect Site Recovery Manager Log Files By Using the Site Recovery Manager Interface
Collect Site Recovery Manager Log Files Manually
Change Size and Number of Site Recovery Manager Server Log Files
Configure Site Recovery Manager Core Dumps
Troubleshooting Site Recovery Manager
Site Recovery Manager Doubles the Number of Backslashes in the Command Line When Running Callouts
Powering on Many Virtual Machines Simultaneously on the Recovery Site Can Lead to Errors
Adding Virtual Machines to a Protection Group Fails with an Unresolved Devices Error
Configuring Protection fails with Placeholder Creation Error
Rapid Deletion and Recreation of Placeholders Fails
Planned Migration Fails Because Host is in an Incorrect State
Recovery Fails with a Timeout Error During Network Customization for Some Virtual Machines
Recovery Fails with Unavailable Host and Datastore Error
Reprotect Fails with a vSphere Replication Timeout Error
Recovery Plan Times Out While Waiting for VMware Tools
Synchronization Fails for vSphere Replication Protection Groups
Reprotect Fails After Restarting vCenter Server
Rescanning Datastores Fails Because Storage Devices are Not Ready