I recently had an issue during SRM testing where the “Test Recovery” passed, but when we ran the actual recovery, it failed. Looking through the logs it looked like SRM or the SRA did not see the full name of the [...]
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SRM – Trusted Certificates
Today I began my work with VMware’s DR product, SRM. I’ll be using this tool to migrate a few hundred virtual machines from one datacenter to another, not for DR purposes. The first issue I ran into took me quite [...]
VMware SRM – Datastore Naming
When failing over from a production site to a DR site, the datastores that are mounted on the ESX hosts at your DR site are named using the “snap-xxxxxxx-NAME” naming convention by default. Per this thread, this was not this [...]
VMware SRM – My initial thoughts
Recently, I had an opportunity to install and configure SRM in a test lab, as part of a project related to a datacenter move. VMware Site Recovery Manager is THE tool to utilize when you’re looking to create an automated [...]