SHIFT-WIKI - Sjoerd Hooft's InFormation Technology
This WIKI is my personal documentation blog. Please enjoy it and feel free to reach out through blue sky if you have a question, remark, improvement or observation. See below for the latest additions, or use the search or tags to browse for content.
SRM Script: SRM And RDMs
Summary: How to configure RDMs to smoothly work with VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.1.
Date: 22 March 2013
Refactor: 29 April 2025: Checked links and formatting.
While Site Recovery Manager 5.l fully supports the usage of RDMs and this also works just fine there are a few things that will work against you that need to be solved in case you ever have to do a failover recovery. And even while doing a failover test, considering these issues will help you to make your tests faster and more reliable.
The two issues in case:
These issues will mean that after recovering VMs with RDMs you'll have to set the path policy to MRU (preferred because it supports ALUA for ESXi 5.1 and NetApp Storage) and the IsPerenniallyReserved setting to true for each RDM.
Luckily I wrote a script.
SRM And PowerShell
Summary: How to work and setup powershell and powercli for VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.1.
Date: Around 2012
Refactor: 29 April 2025: Checked links and formatting.
PowerShell can be a great way to help you create the site recovery you really want. This article talks about installing PowerCLI on a SRM server installed as described here. Also, running the script automatically and adding them into your recovery plan will be discussed.
SRM 5.1: Create Protection Groups and Recovery Plans
Summary: This post explains how protection groups and recovery plans are made in VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5.1.
Date: Around 2014
Refactor: 13 February 2025: Checked links and formatting.
Notice that the protection group is created at the protected site and the recovery plan is created at the recovery site.