The vRealize Operations Management Pack for Site Recovery Manager allows VMware administrators to monitor the local Site Recovery Manager services in VMware vRealize Operations Manager.

The vRealize Operations Management Pack for VMware Site Recovery Manager provides capabilities for monitoring the connectivity between Site Recovery Manager instances, the availability of a remote Site Recovery Manager instance, and the status of protection groups and recovery plans. Alarms are generated when there are Site Recovery Manager connectivity issues encountered or protection groups and recovery plans are in an error state. The user interface provides statistics for the number of Site Recovery Manager-related objects and how many of them have errors.

The vRealize Operations Management Pack for VMware Site Recovery Manager requires certain ports to be open. If you are connecting to the Site Recovery Manager virtual appliance, the management pack uses port 443 (HTTPS protocol).

Site Recovery Manager alerts tracked with the vRealize Operations Management Pack

You can track the following alerts with the vRealize Operations management pack for Site Recovery Manager.

  • Site Recovery Manager server is not paired.
  • Site Recovery Manager server is not connected to the paired site.
  • Recovery plan is currently running.
  • Recovery plan is in canceling state.
  • Recovery plan is prompting the user.
  • Recovery plan needs cleanup.
  • Recovery plan needs failover.
  • Recovery plan needs reprotect.
  • Recovery plan has errors.
  • Recovery plan run finished with VMs with errors.
  • Recovery plan run finished with VMs that are powered off.
  • Protection group is not configured.
  • Protection group is partially recovered.
  • Protection group is recovering.
  • Protection group is testing.
  • These VM(s) are part of one or more protection group(s), but they are not included in any recovery plan(s).
  • There are VM(s) that are part of one or more protection group(s), but they are not included in any recovery plan(s).
  • Protected VM has errorsLicense expires in less than three days.
  • Placeholder VM Needs Repair.
  • Protected VM Placeholder Error.
  • Replicated Array Pairs Have Errors.
  • Array Manager Ping Failed.

Site Recovery Manager Metrics Tracked with the vRealize Operations Management Pack

Site Recovery Manager Site Metrics

  1. Paired
  2. Pair Name
  3. Pair VC Address
  4. Is Pair Site Connected
  5. Name
  6. Number of Protection Groups
  7. Number of Recovery Plans
  8. Number of Recovery Virtual Machines
  9. Number of Array Managers
  10. Number of Recovery Virtual Machines
  11. These VM(s) are part of one or more protection group(s), but they are not included in any recovery plan(s).
  12. Product Name
  13. Edition Key
  14. Total capacity of the license
  15. Units currently used in this asset
  16. Cost Unit
  17. Days to expire
  18. Product Version
  19. Version
  20. Build number

Protection Groups Metrics

  1. Protection Group Name
  2. Protection Group Status
  3. Protection Group Type
  4. Protection Group Folder
  5. Number of Protected Virtual Machines
  6. Part of Recovery Plan

Recovery Plans Metrics

  1. Recovery Plan Name
  2. Recovery Plan Status
  3. Recovery Plan Folder

Recovery History Metrics

  1. Description
  2. Error Count
  3. Execution Time
  4. Result State
  5. Mode
  6. Total Paused Time
  7. Warning Count
  8. Powered On VMs
  9. Powered Off VMs
  10. Successfully IP customized VMs
  11. Successfully recovered VMs
  12. VMs recovered with error
  13. Latest from this type run

Protection Group Folders Metrics

  1. Folder Name

Recovery Plan Folders Metrics

  1. Folder Name

Recovery Virtual Machines Metrics

  1. Name
  2. Recovery Status

Protected Virtual Machines Metrics

  1. Name
  2. Recovery Status
  3. Errors
  4. Placeholder VM Error
  5. Placeholder VM Needs Repair

Array Manager Metrics

  1. Name
  2. Replicated Array Pairs Errors
  3. Array Manager Ping Message