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 [...]

Just noticed three SRAs were updated. Might be worth checking out: EMC Symmetrix Storage Replication Adapter Version 2.0.0.21 | Released 04/20/2009 Fixed : SRDF Adapter for VMWARE Site Recovery Manager (SRM) times out while trying to enumerate LUNs from a local Symmetrix array. LSI Storage Replication Adapter Version 1.00.30.12| Released 04/01/2009 Hitachi Storage Replication Adapter 2 Version 1.0.8| Released 03/24/2009 [...]

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 just noticed this SRM update, it’s just a small patch but looking at the problems it corrects it might be beneficial to upgrade! Site Recovery Manager 1.0 Update 1 Patch 3 Latest Release Version: 1.0.1.2587 | 04/09/09 | 154949 This patch corrects the following problems: a problem that prevents protected virtual machines from following recommended Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) [...]

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 [...]

One of my customers asked me how they could change the administrator email address after the installation of SRM. He turned the GUI upside down but couldn’t find it anywhere. Extension.xml is the configuration xml file where you can change the Administrator Email: <adminEmail>admin@yellow-bricks.com</adminEmail>