Implementing Shared Recovery Sites in an existing SRM environment
I have an existing SRM 5.1 environment comprised of a single protected site and a single recovery/DR site. A third site has just been brought online and I would like to implement Shared Recovery Sites...
View ArticleWorkstation 9.0.2 Ubuntu 13.04 64 bit
Hello, Anyone installed Workstation 9.0.2 on a fresh ubuntu 13.04 64 bit installation ? If so, any patch which needs to be applied before ?
View ArticleIf you have multiple ESXi farms at one site - how do you setup SRM on them...
Question: We currently have two ESXi farms - one in our central data center and one in our remote data center.We have SRM installed at both locations and paired up with the two vCenters. I am in the...
View ArticleSRM 5.1: Add Command with PowerCLI script, logging does not work
Hey everyone, I implemented SRM 5.1 and have been successful so far. I'm now in the phase of making all the really nice extras that makes SRM worth the extra money. However, as base of my...
View Articlevsphere replication questions!!
I have few questions regarding the SRM replication. 1. First I will replicate the machine from Protected to Recovery, then can I have both machines to be up and running at the same time? 2. What will...
View ArticleSSO 5.1 and SRM Disaster Recovery
Working that has a massive VM Project. They are upgrading to vSphere 5.1 across the board while creating a brand new DR Site. My question is on SSO with SRM. Then goal is to have two environments...
View ArticleConfiguring Network Mapping from RS back to PS
Hi folks, I'm starting the implementation of SRM 5.02 in my environment, and I have a few questions about networking that I hopoe someone can answer. I have gone through the whole process of pairing...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Slow Write Speeds
Hi Guys, I am looking for some advice as to how to best troubleshoot this problem I am having as I am currently at a loss as to what it can be. I have just finished building an ESXi 5.1 Lab which...
View ArticleTotal VMs based on CPU and Memory
Hello,Below is our current ESXi details for 2 environment; ENV 1:ESXi Version: 4.1Number of ESXi: 4 in one Cluster with DRSCPU: 12 CPUs * Intel Xeon X5650 @ 2.8Socket: 2Cores: 6HT: EnabledLogical...
View ArticleLogs are Growing Rapidly in C:/programdata/Vmware Folder in 4.x
Logs are Growing Rapidly in C:/programdata/Vmware Folder in 4.x Any help will be appreciated
View ArticleFailback Operation
I just failed back from a recovery we were running on some test systems. I noticed that the original failover to our DR site unmounted all LUNs from our hosts and removed the LUNs from the storage...
View ArticleFreeze Vmware Server
Hi guys, I'm new in this communitie, in fact this is my first thread. I've installed Vmware Server (at least for now, I don't know which version, because notebook is in the office). The problem is the...
View ArticleFormat Local VMFS Datastore
Hey guys, my local VMFS datastore on my ESXi 4.1 hosts shows as 1.8TB.. Server has 5x500GB RAID5 only. All VMs are on SAN I would like to reformat this to a larger block size to support 512GB VMDKs...
View ArticleFailover question on stopping SRA sync
I am starting to investigate SRM, and have a test lab--though using VRS for this. In production I will have a supported SRA. My question, is if lets say LUN01 has 40 VMs on it. It is being syncronized...
View ArticleHow to extend/optimize this multi vc datastore inventory script
Hi, Trying to setup a script for datastore inventory. This is what i have so far.I would like to extend this datastore inventory script. 1.) How to add additional properties to this script?...
View ArticleSRM & Managed Object References Between vCenter Server Instances
Does the Managed Object Reference for objects migrated via SRM remain the same from vCenter Server to vCenter Server instance? If the MOR changes, how is SRM maintaining which object relates to which...
View ArticleAlarm 'Network uplink redundancy lost': an SNMP trap for entity "ESXI Server...
Hello Everybody, I have 8 server cluster (esxi 5.1) which I manage by vcenter 5.1. If I click on any esxi host in vcenter and go to Tasks & Events Tab, I can see the following 2 alerts continously...
View ArticleESXi 4.1 with "errors in active directory operations" during integration to...
Hi, I'm getting mentioned error while adding VMware ESXi 4.1.0 build-721871 to domain. below are the hostd.log, I cannot able to find why there is error : "The Workstation service has not been...
View ArticleVMware vCloud Director 5.1.2 has been released + New KB
Download Page: https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_vcloud_director/5_1 Release...
View ArticleSRM Database Location
Hello, I have attached a diagram of my SRM setup in VMware. I have read the best practice guides which said its ok to be on a physical or virtual, but I'm concerned that this would prevent SRM from...
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