The release of the PowerCLI SRM cmdlets have enabled the admin to automate reporting and protection tasks without having to use .NET or java. Ben Meadowcroft (former PM for SRM) has a github site where he created a lot of functions using PowerCLI, these are very handy to start your SRM automation journey. One thing… Read More »
I’m not sure who enjoys using the Perl debugger on Windows (certainly not I), but the process is still interesting. The Situation: So you are adding an array manager for a Netapp CMODE array, you hit click “Enable” but then you get an error. SRA command ‘discoverDevices’ failed. Storage system configuration error ensure that the… Read More »
In my last post, I discussed some issues I had when changing the DB password for Site Recovery Manager. I just wanted to quickly discuss a different error that I had during my couple of days of password changes. One of the tasks that you will have to do when changing passwords is to re-pair… Read More »
Who doesn’t love changing password right? Since I own the SRM implementation, I was sent a compliance task to change all of the passwords. With SRM there are up to five passwords typically: Password that runs the Windows SRM Service (this is helpful so that you can run scripts on the SRM server in the same context) Password… Read More »
Last year I was involved with the Design and Deployment of Site Recovery Manager between multiple datacenters, protecting 1000+ VMs using NetApp Snapmirror. My team spent a lot of time putting the CMODE SRA through it’s paces and have learned quite a bit about trying to operate SRM in a large environment. A Product Manager… Read More »
I originally was going to put up a script for creating tag categories and tags and assigning them, but of course Alan Renouf had a script on his site! The problem I found is that if an object needs to change a tag (say with a cardinality of single), you can just do a set-tagassignment… Read More »
Just a quick post. I have a large of PowerCLI functions/cmdlets for SRM that I heavily modified from Ben Meadowcraft. One of the functions/cmdlets that I was working on was a function called Export-VMNetworking. The output of this function was a CSV file tha could be used as the input to the dr-ip-customizer (I’m trying… Read More »
The last couple days have been busy as VMware has released updates for Virtual Appliances that are have the shellshock vulnerability. I recently patched my Log Insight instances, but I am also responsible for Site Recovery Manager (SRM) with vSphere Replication (VR) Based on the VMware Security Advisory, SRM 5.5 itself does not have the vulnerability but… Read More »
In my work environment, I have a lot of Array Based Replication, almost all of it in fact. The best practice for ABR is to isolate SRM VMs to ONLY SRM datastores. This helps other people from moving things in and out of that datastore at will AND SRM will warn you if you have… Read More »
One of the things that is not obvious about SRM is what type of permissions is required for account used to run SRM.Most of the documentation notes that you need Administrator in vCenter for SRM for at least pairing, but there is a lot of focus on roles and not the service account. 1)Account entered… Read More »