Site Recovery Manager Administration
About VMware 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
Add Storage Replication Adapters to the Site Recovery Manager Appliance
Download and Upload Configuration Archives for Storage Replication Adapters
Delete Storage Replication Adapters
Rescan Arrays to Detect Configuration Changes
Configure Array Managers
Edit Array Managers
Specify an Unreplicated Datastore for Swap Files
Isolating Devices for Stretched Storage During Disaster Recovery
Using vSphere Replication with Site Recovery Manager
Replicating a Virtual Machine and Enabling Multiple Point in Time Instances
Using Virtual Volumes with Site Recovery Manager
Configure Virtual Volumes
Register Storage Providers for Virtual Volumes
Create a Virtual Volumes Datastore
Review and Manage Protocol Endpoints
Change the Path Selection Policy for a Protocol Endpoint
Using Array-Based Replication and vSphere Replication with Site Recovery Manager
Configuring Mappings
Inventory Mappings for Array-Based Replication Protection Groups and vSphere Replication Protection Groups
Inventory Mappings for Storage Policy Protection Groups
Configure Temporary Placeholder Mappings
Users Gain Access to Virtual Machines After Configuring Temporary Placeholder Mappings
Configure Inventory Mappings
About Storage Policy Mappings
Select Storage Policy Mappings
About Placeholder Virtual Machines
What Happens to Placeholder Virtual Machines During Recovery
Select a Placeholder Datastore
Creating and Managing Protection Groups
About Array-Based Replication Protection Groups and Datastore Groups
How Site Recovery Manager Computes Datastore Groups
vSphere Replication Protection Groups
About Virtual Volumes Protection Groups
About Storage Policy Protection Groups
Prerequisites for Storage Policy Protection Groups
Limitations of Storage Policy Protection Groups
Storage Policy Protection Groups and Nonprotected Virtual Machines
Protect an Encrypted VM
Automatic Protection of Virtual Machines
Overview of Protection Group States
Overview of Virtual Machine Protection States
Creating Protection Groups
Create vSphere Replication Protection Groups
Create Storage Policy Protection Groups
Create Array-Based Replication Protection Groups
Create Virtual Volumes Protection Groups
Organize Protection Groups in Folders
Add and Remove Datastore Groups or Virtual Machines to or from a Protection Group
Apply Inventory Mappings to All Members of an Array-Based, Virtual Volumes, or vSphere Replication Protection Group
Configure Inventory Mappings for an Individual Virtual Machine in an Array-Based, Virtual Volumes, or vSphere Replication Protection Group
Modifying the Settings of a Virtual Machine in an Array-Based, Virtual Volumes, or vSphere Replication Protection Group
Removing Protection from a Virtual Machine
Remove Protection from a Virtual Machine
Creating, Testing, and Running Recovery Plans
Testing a Recovery Plan
Test Networks and Data Center 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
Disable the Recovery of a Virtual Machine in a Storage Policy Protection Group
Disable the Recovery of a Consistency Group in a Storage Policy Protection Group
Export Recovery Plan Steps
View and Export a Recovery Plan History Report
Delete a Recovery Plan
Overview of Recovery Plan States
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
Guidelines for Writing Command Steps
Environment Variables for Command Steps
Create Top-Level Message Prompts or Command Steps
Create Message Prompts or Command Steps for Individual Virtual Machines
Suspend Virtual Machines When a Recovery Plan Runs
Specify the Recovery Priority of a Virtual Machine
Configure Virtual Machine Dependencies
Enable vSphere vMotion for Planned Migration
Configure Virtual Machine Startup and Shutdown Options
Limitations to Protection and Recovery of Virtual Machines
Customizing IP Properties for Virtual Machines
Manually Customize IP Properties for an Individual Virtual Machine
Apply IP Customization Rules to a 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
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
How Site Recovery Manager Reprotects Virtual Machines with Storage Policy Protection
Preconditions for Performing Reprotect
Reprotect Virtual Machines
Overview of 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
Using Site Recovery Manager with VMware vSAN Storage and vSphere Replication
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
How Site Recovery Manager Interacts with Stretched Storage
How Site Recovery Manager Interacts with vSphere Cluster Services
Using Site Recovery Manager with NSX Data Center for vSphere
Site Recovery Manager and vSphere PowerCLI
Site Recovery Manager and Virtual Machine Encryption
Site Recovery Manager and VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes
VMware HCX Integration with Site Recovery Manager
Site Recovery Manager and vRealize Orchestrator
VMware Site Recovery Manager and VMware vRealize Operations Manager
Protecting Windows Server Failover Clustering and Fault Tolerant Virtual Machines
Using Site Recovery Manager with SIOC Datastores
Using Site Recovery Manager with Admission Control Clusters
Site Recovery Manager and Virtual Machines Attached to RDM Disk Devices
Site Recovery Manager and Active Directory Domain Controllers
Advanced Site Recovery Manager Configuration
Reconfigure Site Recovery Manager Settings
Change Connections Settings
Change Site Recovery Manager History Report Collection Setting
Change Local Site Settings
Change Logging Settings
Change Recovery Settings
Apply Recovery Settings to Virtual Machines in a Recovery Plan
Apply Recovery Settings to Virtual Machines in a Protection Group
Change Remote Manager Settings
Change Remote Site Settings
Change Replication Settings
Change SSO Setting
Change Storage Settings
Change ABR Storage Policy Setting
Change Storage Provider Settings
Change vSphere Replication Settings
Change the Automatic Protection Settings
Change the Virtual Volumes Replication Settings
Change Telemetry Settings
Modify Settings to Run Large Site Recovery Manager Environments
Settings for Large Site Recovery Manager Environments
Site Recovery Manager Events and Alarms
How Site Recovery Manager Monitors Connections Between Sites
Create Site Recovery Manager Alarms
Site Recovery Manager Events Reference
Site Status Events
Protection Group Events
Recovery Events
Automatic Protection Events
Virtual Volumes 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
Powering on Many Virtual Machines Simultaneously on the Recovery Site Can Lead to Errors
LVM.enableResignature=1 Remains Set After a Site Recovery Manager Test Recovery
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
Planned Migration Fails Due to Unsuccessful Synchronization of Storage Policy Protection Group
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
Rescanning Datastores Fails Because Storage Devices are Not Ready
Recovery Sticks at 36% During Planned Migration
Recovery Fails with Error About a Nonreplicated
Recovery Fails Due to Restricted User Permissions
Recovery Fails Due to an Unsupported Combination of VMware Tools and ESXi