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• SRM using the issue of replication VRMS vSphere

  Hi guys,.

  Basically normally when using vsphere replication, if you lose the VRM, then you cannot recover your virtual machines.

  'With the VRMS device in offline mode, it is not possible to recover virtual machines with vSphere replication. There are some items of third person out there that suggest that it is possible to manually change the files to the target location that make up the replica and recover a virtual machine. "While this is possible, I do not recommend relying on this method of recovery, because it's a very manual process and, above all, not supported by VMware "

  vSphere replication device failure and recovery prevention | VMware vSphere Blog - VMware Blogs

  Am I right in thinking that when you use SRM with replication of vsphere, this isn't a problem that you can 'force' recovery with MRS... .where is it always going to be a problem?

  This is a question published iI in Re: 1 primary replication running unit and 1 device running the module

  Cheers for the help guys!

  As Martin mentioned in the other thread, VR (and SRM when using VR) require work VRMS at the location of the target/recovery. To clarify your statement, read: "when using vsphere replication, if you lose the VRMS on the site of your target/recovery , then you cannot recover your virtual machines.

  With MRS is still a problem, but normally if your production site is affected it will not be an impact on VRM on the recovering site you will always be able to recover. Enforcement is where any operation is attempted on a protected site, so it's really for a different use case.

  Does that answer your question?

• On the replication SRM 5.5 and vsphere

  Hi guys,.

  using Mrs. 5.5 and replication of vsphere can I do a first replica of virtual machine with a manual copy or clone on the remote site and after synchronization with replication or srm vsphere virtual machine?

  Thanks in advance.

  Hello

  I assume that when the source of the VM is turned on, the disks (-flat.vmdk files) are locked and that's the reason to download drives while the virtual machine is turned off.

  The virtual machine can be powered on once the disc has been downloaded/copied.

  An alternative approach, if you have enough free space on the source website - you can clone the virtual machine, without any power off and download the clone disks.

  The clone operation may change the value of ddb.uuid in hard files. Make sure that it matches the value in the hard of source files and if not, change it manually. Another configuration of replication will fail if this value does not match.

  Kind regards

  Martin

• Restore with replication of vSphere

  Hello

  We use SRM 5.1 with replication of vSphere.

  I'm trying to get a rough idea of how long a reprotect operation would take after a failover, especially synchronization of storage.

  The manual says that:

  
  "The full synchronization that appears especially in the stages of recovery performs control totals, and only a small amount of data is transferred over the network."

  However in my testing this step still seems to take a long time to complete.  For a person of 50 GB, it takes 40 minutes.  My question is: what is the bottleneck here and I can speed things up?

  In a live scenario, I have much larger comments VMs and I fear that a reprotect could take days to synchronize the storage.

  Thank you

  Steve

  The full synchronization bed basically just for the disk data and checksum data. It also makes requests to read the data and return a set of checksums remotely. He would only send the data if the checksums do not match. Thus, assuming that not many disk changed, there is very little except checksum travel over the network. So you will respect especially how fast you can read files vmdk on both sites and to a lesser extent by the latency of the network between the sites, and, of course, if the link between the sites remains upward.

  Check if the link to the sites is good. Get often ignored or not connections are limited somehow? The latency is extremely high, as hundreds of milliseconds? This can slow things down.

  On the source site, make sure that the storage is not overloaded with other work. In the case of NAS/ISCSI, check also that there is no other work of network hogging bandwidth. Sometimes, there are periodic offers on secondary sites, like backups, and that people often forget this can be a lot of resources.

  On the destination site, carry out similar checks and make sure that the server VR is to get a reasonable amount of network and CPU resources.

• replication of vSphere in SRM 5.1

  I know that replicaion of vsphere support reprotect and recovery in SRM 5.1.

  In our environment, I am using vcenter 5 u1 to manage several u1 5.0 esxi hosts.

  I intend to deploy MIS. What version of SRM to install the thought. (SRM 5.0 or 5.1 SRM)

  If I decide to deploy SRM 5.1, I improve vCenter 5.1 prior to installation of the SRM 5.1. vCenter 5.1 can support ESXi 5.1 and 5.0 ESXi hosts.

  I want to know if I need to use the feature of vsphere SRM 5.1 replication, what I need to improve 5.0 to 5.1 ESXi ESXi? Dungeon using ESXi 5.0?

  Any mention of the document?

  Hello

  To be specified. You have three options.

  With SRM:

  1. 2 vCenter and 2 servers RS servers. At version 5.1.

  Without RS (no testing and no reprotect):

  2. 2 5.1 vCenter servers.

  3. 1 vCenter server 5.1 (what is called single instance)

  So, if you want to test and automatic failover your choice is option #1.

  Michael.

• RDM & replication of vSphere

  Hi all

  I have to support a migration from one site to the other project and I need to move only computers configured with RDM mode physical model virtual.

  My idea was to use the replication of vSphere and I was wondering if there is an idea on how to do it if possible.

  All tips are welcome,

  Daniele

  Hello world

  I wanted to just add the link to the official statement in the vSphere replication 5.1 / documentation Site Recovery Manager: http://pubs.vmware.com/srm-51/topic/com.vmware.srm.admin.doc/GUID-084C089D-9689-4F34-9A75-8AFB980A725E.html

  "vSphere replication supports RDM devices in virtual mode only, for the device from the source and the target.

  Best regards

  Bjoern

• Protection of unique virtual machine with SRM

  Hello

  I am new to SRM so please guide me, I Site A and Site B, the two sites has 4 to LUN with SAN EMS replication, this LUN has 4 virtual machines, (A, B, C, D), as does the replication SAN and that LUN is protected, Protection Group covers all 4 VM, if one of my VM falls down on the main site I can only start that failure on site rather count all 4 virtual machines of the failover.

  Concerning

  Usman

  srm_admin_5_0 should provide you with data.

  See "creating Protection groups and.

  Section of replication of Virtual Machines.

• SRM hypervisor replication Requirments

  Hello

  We are currently looking to implement a SRM solution between or Production and DR sites.

  • Currently in our environment VMware 5.1 our ESXi clusters are connected to an IBM XIV Gen II through 8 GB Fiber Channel.
  • Our two sites are connected via an MPLS connection.
  • We have not all capable routing FC or FCIP SAN switches, and we are not able to buy a.

  As much as we Vcenters and storage available on both sites can us always replicate VMs via the MPLS connection via RS 5 hypervisor type replication?

  Can someone brief explain me what protocol or process exactly MRS uses to replicate virtual machines if it isn't level storage: IE FCIP, iSCSI, NFS, etc.. ?

  Hypervisor SRM replication essentially "VSphere replication is" without Automation, test, additional features etc.?

  Thank you!

  That's right-

• replication of vSphere

  If I have deployed the unit of replication master vsphere in the production site, do I need to add an another master vsphere replication in the dr site?

  Is replication? or it can also operate in bidirectional replication?

  Each RV unit performs the replication. The first deployed in management handles VC as well.

• Are thinking of duplication of table to the replication of Vsphere, a quick question

  We currently use Array replication and plan to use the replication of vsphere for flexibility. Unfortunately, we have more than 500 virtual machines to protect - but it is another question and I hope MRS. deploy several devices that will help.

  I can't determine which network interface, the replication traffic goes on:

  1 Hypervizor ports between the ESX hosts (which are 1Gbit in my case) where VMS are?

  2. pushed through vcenter somehow?

  3 Vlan than VR devices are connected to the?

  I have a 10 Gbps link between sites, trying to find how to use more than 1 GB, because the 3 options above are 1Gbit. Although the unit sat on a group of ports that is supported by the host ESX 10Gbit links - but I guess that the only real device of a 1Gbit NIC adapter.

  Hello

  Replication traffic is going:

  1 VR source ESXi server at the remote site via custom protocol LWD (light-weight-delta) TCP ports 31031 and 44046.

  2. outside in VR server via port 902 device and Protocol NFC ESXi host target, then the target data store.

  Separate NICS for VR (isolation of network traffic) replication traffic - to GDL from source ESXi to GDL for server VR application and for inbound replication traffic target ESXi NFC are not available in the current versions, but are part of an RV to come free.

  The VR machine using a NIC vmxnet3

  For the current version, you might want to perform some custom routing/formatting via the ports 31031 (initial full synchronization) and 44046 (all the traffic from replication after the initial synchronization is complete).

  Kind regards

  Martin

• The SRM-storage replication

  Hello

  I had a question about SRM storage replication

  I have double storage EMC Clarion & VNX on both sites primary & DR

  in the case above how the difference of configuration would be for SRA

  Thank you

  SD

  Yes, SRA can manage several bays.

• Personal project: convert with VM Linux host to vSphere Hypervisor

  Hello

  I have been using VMware Workstation for some years both for personal and professional purposes.

  I would like to convert my Linux host with multiple virtual machines to vSphere Hypervisor server with all my existing virtual machines and data.

  I currently have a Ubuntu 10.10 desktop on which I run Workstation 8 to host multiple virtual machines to Linux as a WebSphere Portal cluster (LDAP, DB2, ND, Portal 2 nodes). I also use it to host a VortexBox VM that contains my music collection. The audio files are not in the hard of the VortexBox, but are accessed through a sharing of the host folder. I have also several years of photos and documents on the host system.

  The material consists of:

  Motherboard Asus M4A785TD-V

  Corsair XMS3 16 GB

  Intel PWLA8391GTBLK PRO/1000 GT Desktop Network adapt

  1 x Hitachi 1 TB (empty)

  1 x Seagate 160 GB (photos, video)

  2 x Seagate 300 GB (Ubuntu, music, data, VMs)

  I am very new to vSphere. What I did was install vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 5) on a USB 8 GB on the above system and created a store of data of the 1 TB drive.

  I also installed vSphere Client on a virtual Windows XP machine running on my MacBook; that I used to create the data store.

  Can someone provide measures of high level on how to proceed?

  I have an external hard drive on which I can copy existing virtual machines to deploy to the host of vSphere through Workstation 8.

  My main concern is the best way to keep my collection of music/photo/video to make it accessible by the VM VortexBox.

  Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

  Miguel

  ' Copy the VMs convert to another system so that I can deploy to the area of ESXi? Or is there a way to locate the VMs converted from the ESXi host (via vSphere Client) and deploy? »

  ESXi must work so that the converter convert and move them to ESXi. Since it is the same dialog that VMware Workstation works on, it would mean that Ubuntu and workstation are turned off. You convert the raw files to workstation (which takes care of the tool). This will probably mean temporarily copy workstation virtual machine files to a temporary location.

  "What is the advantage of the use of VMware Converter instead of use the VMware Workstation 8 to download the virtual machines on the ESXi host?"

  Eventually no matter. But remember that since ESXi must be executed, you can have the two ESXi running AND Ubuntu/workstation at the same time on the same box, so in your case, wouldn't be able to do this. Another option exports all the VMS to the models of the FVO (for an external HARD drive), and then once ESXi is running, import the OVFs.

  "I like the point that do you on a VM file server. If I decide to implement this option, I would be able to connect to the existing hard disks on the ESXi host without having to reformat, to preserve my data (music, photos, videos, docs, etc.)? Any recommendations? "

  Although it is technically possible to have a linux format hard drive visible to virtual machines (such as a ROW), it is very unusual and massively overcomplicates things. The best thing to do would be to move the data on the hard drive temporarily, format them as VMFS data stores and then only move the data back ontop readers in a virtual hard drive. To do this way, you get all the benefits of virtualization (eg. being able to easily move this virtual hard disk on different volumes and attach easily to different virtual machines, etc.). It's a little pain in the short term, but the long-term gain.

  «I'm assuming that a VM file server would be different from a NAS VM, as I have to format disks in file system regardless of the SIN in the SIN prefer (I saw a YouTube video describing FreeNAS).»

  A NAS and file server are essentially the same. There is nothing more an operating system that data sharing. They all use the same protocol for sharing (samba, CIFS, iSCSI, etc.), so it does not matter in general. But yes, typically performance based most NAS on Linux OSs, so yes, it's finally sitting on a file system (ext2/3/4) of Linux. Which shouldn't matter however, as long as your other machines can access the data. If I were you, I would buy a consumer NAS (which will offer more storage and can be extended), or configure a simple VM (like FreeNAS or other) and just give him a big a VHD.

• Transparent data encryption are supported with Oracle Advanced Replication?

  Which version of DB, TDE supported with Oracle Advanced Replication?

  user939188 wrote:
  Which version of DB, TDE supported with Oracle Advanced Replication?

  "Materialized views do not support columns that have been encrypted by using transparent data encryption."

  Source - http://oracle.su/docs/11g/server.112/e10706/repmview.htm

• SRM with migration of replication of storage to new site 1: n

  Hello

  We have 2 sites, site A and site B. We have a few virtual machines to the site are protected & DR configured to site B, with storage replication & vice versa.

  Now, we want to add 2 other sites, the site C & d site.

  1 set up replication of storage between site A and site C for some virtual machines that are protected.

  2. turn the replication of storage between D & B site for some virtual machines protected site.

  3. recovery plan to test for C & D site with disturbing replication between A and B.

  Is this possible? Current version of vSphere is the 5.5 & SRM is 5.8

  Thank you

  Yes, it is possible to keep a few things in mind:

  -SRM requires a vCenter on each site (so you should have 4 total vCenters, 1 each on sites A, B, C & D)

  -SRM requires pairs of servers SRM for each link (so if B C & D are connected to A, you should have a total of 6 servers RS, 3 a and 1 b, C & D)

  -Each virtual machine can only be protected by a single pair of SRM Server (so you can't protect a machine virtual from A to C if it is already protected from A to B in your example)

  -Each virtual machine can be replicated only once, visible to SRM (this is possible with certain suppliers of table alternatives to replicate a LUN to multiple destinations, that's fine when you use SRM as long as MRS. manages only a single replication)

  Check out this blog for other topologies available and details: http://www.benmeadowcroft.com/archive/2015/01/12/vmware-srm-topologies/

• Replication of vSphere SRM - replica of the lack of virtual machines

  Hello

  I use SRM with vSphere replication and all my virtual machines are properly replicated from my site for my recovery.site as you can see:

  

  My problem is that I don't see all the replica of the VMs replicated in the inventory of the recovery site:

  

  So when I was looking for in the web client vSphere replication monitor, I saw that all the virtual machines that are in the inventory of the recovery site are all managed by SRM. And all virtual machines managed by VR finally does not appear in the inventory.

  
  

  Someone at - it never I have this problem or know the solution?

  Concerning

  Hello and welcome to the community of VMware

  The behavior you describe is planned. Between VR and SRM, is SRM work to create what is called 'space reserved VM' on the recovering site.

  If replicate you a virtual machine using vSphere replication but skip protection by SRM, there is no virtual machine being recorded on the recovering Site until you run the RV GUI recovery operation.

  Can I ask you why do you need to see the virtual machine on the recovering site? Even if it is there, you are not able to turn on.

  Best regards

  Stefan Tsonev