Every time I do a Site Recovery Manager jumpstart or start a project the same questions pops up. What port numbers must be open for SRM and VirtualCenter / vCenter Server to be able to communicate? kb.vmware.com/kb/1006738: The following ports are used for the respective products and must be open for remote communication: VMware VirtualCenter / vCenter Server: 80 (HTTP) [...]
One of my customers recently asked if it was possible to change the time-out for a power state change, at the same time this question was asked and answered on an internal mailing list. I thought it would be nice to document it. An example of a power state change task would be the shutdown that is initiated by SRM [...]
As of VMware vCenter 2.5 Update 2 the HA default isolation response changed from “Power Off” to “Leave powered on”. A lot of people liked this new default setting because it would lower the chances of downtime due to a “false positive”. I’ve never been a fan though, I just don’t like using degraded hardware or a degraded ESX host [...]
I just received an email about an excellent article on VI:OPS. The article is titled “Automating Network Setting Changes and DNS Updates on Recovery Site Using VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager“. It includes a PDF file which contains a description for configuring automatic IP-Changes but also includes batch files for DNS updates. When performing site failover, IT administrators are often [...]
When doing a failover with SRM your VMFS Datastores get labeled with a “snap-xxxxxxx-name” because they’ve been resignatured. Mike Laverick gave this tip on the VMTN forum which enables you to automatically rename your datastores to it’s original name again: Edit the vmware-dr.xml file in the C:\Program Files\Site Recovery Manager\Config directory and look for a line that reads: <fixRecoveredDatastoreNames>false</fixRecoveredDatastoreNames> Change [...]
I was rebuilding my lab this evening and ran into some weird problem during the installation. I wanted to debug it but couldn’t find the log files. After a quick search on the VMTN forum I found the following, which creates a log file called “SRMinstall-log.txt”: VMware-srm-1.0.1-128004.exe /V”/lve SRMinstall-log.txt” I know it’s a weird looking format, but it actualy works! [...]
I got a question today from one of my customers on how to run a script from an SRM Recovery Plan. They tried everything but never got it working. It’s fairly easy, although you would need to take a couple of things in consideration. And reading the SRM Admin Guide page 52 and 53 wouldn’t harm you as well. But [...]
