For array-based replication, the SAN provider is the interface between VMware Live Site Recovery and your storage replication adapter (SRA). Some SRAs require you to change default SAN provider values. You can change the default timeout values and other behaviors of the VMware Live Site Recovery SAN provider.

You can change settings for resignaturing, fixing datastore names, host rescan counts, and timeouts in seconds. For more information about these values, see the SRA documentation from your array vendor.

Procedure

  1. In the vSphere Client, click Site Recovery > Open Site Recovery.
  2. On the Live Site Recovery home tab, select a site pair, and click View Details.
  3. In the left pane, click Configure > Advanced Settings > Storage Provider.
  4. Select a site, and click Edit to modify the storage provider settings.
    Option Action
    Make VMware Live Site Recovery attempt to detach and reattach LUNs with duplicate volumes. The default value is true. Move the slider to change the value of storageProvider.autoDetachLUNsWithDuplicateVolume.
    Set the LVM.EnableResignature flag on ESXi hosts during test and recovery. The default value is 0. In the storageProvider.autoResignatureMode text box, enter 0 to deactivate, 1 to enable, or 2 to ignore the flag. The default setting is 0. If you set this flag to 1, VMware Live Site Recovery resignatures all known VMFS snapshot volumes, including any volumes that VMware Live Site Recovery does not manage. If you leave the flag set to 0, VMware Live Site Recovery only resignatures the VMFS snapshot volumes that it manages.
    Change the timeout in seconds to wait for Batch Attach LUN operation to complete on each ESXi host. The default value is 3600 seconds. Enter a value in the storageProvider.batchAttachTimeoutSec text box.
    Change the timeout in seconds to wait for Batch Detach LUN operation to complete on each ESXi host. The default value is 3600 seconds. Enter a value in the storageProvider.batchDetachTimeoutSec text box.
    Change the interval that VMware Live Site Recovery waits for VMFS volumes to be mounted. The default value is 3600 seconds. Enter a new value in the storageProvider.batchMountTimeoutSec text box. Change this value if you experience timeouts caused by VMware Live Site Recovery checking for VMFS volumes that take a long time to mount. This setting is available in VMware Live Site Recovery 5.5.1 and later.
    Change the interval that VMware Live Site Recovery waits for VMFS volumes to be unmounted. The default value is 3600 seconds. Enter a new value in the storageProvider.batchUnmountTimeoutSec text box. Change this value if you experience timeouts caused by VMware Live Site Recovery checking for VMFS volumes that take a long time to unmount. This setting is available in VMware Live Site Recovery 5.5.1 and later.
    Set number of retries for batch unmount of VMFS/NFS volumes. The default is 3 tries. Enter a new value in the storageProvider.datastoreUnmountRetryCount text box.
    Change the interval that VMware Live Site Recovery waits before attempting to unmount the datastore. The default is 1 second. Enter a new value in the storageProvider.datastoreUnmountRetryDelaySec text box.
    Change the time in seconds to wait before fetching datastores on the ESXi hosts after receiving an SRA response during test and recovery. This setting applies only when there are no SCSI devices. The default value is 0. Enter a new value in the storageProvider.fetchDatastoreDelaySec text box.
    Force removal, upon successful completion of a recovery, of the snap-xx prefix applied to recovered datastore names. The default value is false. Move the slider to change the value of storageProvider.fixRecoveredDatastoreNames.
    Change the time that VMware Live Site Recovery waits before removing the snap-xx prefix applied to recovered datastore names. The default value is 0 seconds. Enter a new value in the storageProvider.fixRecoveredDatastoreNamesDelaySec text box.
    Change the time interval between SMP-FT VM datastore compliance checks. The default value is 300 seconds. Enter a new value in the storageProvider.ftVmComplianceCheckInterval text box.
    Delay host scans during testing and recovery. The default value is 0 seconds.

    SRAs can send responses to VMware Live Site Recovery before a promoted storage device on the recovery site is available to the ESXi hosts. When VMware Live Site Recovery receives a response from an SRA, it rescans the storage devices. If the storage devices are not fully available yet, ESXi Server does not detect them and VMware Live Site Recovery does not find the replicated devices when it rescans. Datastores are not created and recovered virtual machines cannot be found.

    To delay the start of storage rescans until they are available on the ESXi hosts, enter a new value in the storageProvider.hostRescanDelaySec text box.

    Only change this value if you experience problems with unavailable datastores.

    Repeat host scans during testing and recovery. The default value is 1. Enter a new value in the storageProvider.hostRescanRepeatCnt text box. Some storage arrays require more than one rescan, for example to discover the snapshots of failed-over LUNs. In previous releases, you might have used the storageProvider.hostRescanRepeatCnt parameter to introduce a delay in recoveries. Use the storageProvider.hostRescanDelaySec parameter instead.
    Change the interval that VMware Live Site Recovery waits for each HBA rescan to complete. The default value is 300 seconds. Enter a new value in the storageProvider.hostRescanTimeoutSec text box.
    Set the number of times that VMware Live Site Recovery attempts to resignature a VMFS volume. The default value is 1. Enter a new value in the storageProvider.resignatureFailureRetryCount text box.
    Set a timeout for resignaturing a VMFS volume. The default value is 900 seconds. Enter a new value in the storageProvider.resignatureTimeoutSec text box. If you change the storageProvider.hostRescanTimeoutSec setting, increase the storageProvider.resignatureTimeoutSec setting to the same timeout that you use for storageProvider.hostRescanTimeoutSec.
    Identify VMX file paths that VMware Live Site Recovery should not consider as potential VMX file candidates after Storage vMotion. The default value is .snapshot, Enter a comma-separated list of strings in the storageProvider.storageVmotionVmxFilePathsToSkip text box to identify VMX file paths to ignore after Storage vMotion. VMware Live Site Recovery does not consider VMX file paths that contain one or more of these strings as potential candidate VMX files after Storage vMotion.
    Set the timeout in seconds for local stretched devices to be matched to the corresponding remote stretched devices. The default is 300 seconds. Enter the new value in the storageProvider.stretchedDevicesMatchTimeout text box.
    Set the number of parallel xVC-vMotion requests per host. This limit applies to both source and target hosts. The default value is 2. Enter the new value in the storageProvider.vmMigrationLimitPerHost text box.
    Set the timeout in seconds to wait for newly discovered datastores to become accessible. The default value is 60 seconds. Enter the new value in the storageProvider.waitForAccessibleDatastoreTimeoutSec text box.
    Set VMware Live Site Recovery to wait to discover datastores after recovery. The default value is false. Move the slider to change the value of storageProvider.waitForDeviceRediscovery to true.
    Set VMware Live Site Recovery to wait to discover datastores after failover. The default value is true. Move the slider to change the value of storageProvider.waitForDeviceRediscoveryAfterPrepareFailover to false.
    Set the timeout in seconds to wait for the Virtual Center to report newly discovered datastores. The default value is 30 seconds. Enter the new value in the storageProvider.waitForRecoveredDatastoreTimeoutSec text box.
    Set the time interval in seconds that Site Recovery Manager waits for VMFS volumes to become mounted. The default value is 30 seconds. Enter the new value in the storageProvider.waitForVmfsVolumesMountedStateTimeoutSec text box.
  5. To save your changes, click OK.