You can edit replication settings to modify how long Site Recovery Manager waits for the creation of virtual machine placeholders to finish.

Procedure

  1. In the vSphere Client, click Site Recovery > Open Site Recovery.
  2. On the Site Recovery home tab, select a site pair, and click View Details.
  3. In the left pane, click Configure > Advanced Settings > Replication.
  4. Select a site, and click Edit to change the settings.
    Option Action
    Set the time interval in minutes between two executions of the cleanup task for archived recovery settings. The default value is 1440 minutes. Enter a new value in the replication.archiveRecoverySettingsCleanupInterval text box.
    Set the time duration in days to keep the archived recovery settings. The default value is 30 days. Enter a new value in the replication.archiveRecoverySettingsLifetime text box.
    Exclude CD/DVD and floppy media devices from protection. The default value is true. To deactivate the setting, move the slider to change the value of replication.autoExcludeMediaDevices to false.
    Automatically try to select placeholder datastores. The default value is true. To deactivate the setting, move the slider to change the value of replication.automaticPlaceholderDatastoreSelection to false.
    Set the minimum amount of free disk space available in megabytes for an automatic placeholder datastore selection. The default value is 50 MB. To change the amount of free disk space, enter a new value in the replication.automaticPlaceholderDatastoreSelectionMinFreeSpace text box.
    Use minimum CPUs and memory resources when creating a placeholder virtual machine. The default value is false. Move the slider to change the value replication.createPlaceholderVmWithMinResources to true.
    Skip the check for non-protected replica virtual machines while deactivating the protection site during Planned Migration. The default value is false. Move the slider to change the value replication.disablePiggybackVmsCheckDuringDeactivate to true.
    Change the timeout in seconds to wait when creating a placeholder virtual machine. The default value is 300 seconds. Enter a new value in the replication.placeholderVmCreationTimeout text box.
    Keep individual VM inventory mappings in case of a site-wide inventory mappings change. If the value is set to false, in case of a site-wide inventory mappings change Site Recovery Manager overrides the original individual VM inventory mappings. If the value is set to true, Site Recovery Manager keeps the original individual VM inventory mappings until explicit change or VM protection recreation. The default value is false. Move the slider to change the value of replication.keepOverridesOnInvMappingChange to true.
    Activate or deactivate the preservation of VM Tags on the recovery site for recovered virtual machines. The default value is true. Move the slider to change the value of replication.preserveVmTags to false.
    Note: To attach tags to recovered virtual machines on the recovery site, the setting must be set to true on the recovery site.
    Update VM protection in case of inventory mappings change. The default value is true. Move the slider to change the value of replication.updateVmProtectionOnInvMappingChange to false.
  5. To save your changes, click OK.