Problem You attempt to configure a new VMware SRM protection group but receive the following error: ERROR Operation Failed Task completed with error CompositeException Unable to protect VM ‘<virtualMachineName>’ due to unresolved devices Unable to protect VM ‘<virtualMachineName>’ due to unresolved devices Unable to protect
It has been a while since I’ve deployed SRM (VMware Site Recovery Manager) and since I recently had the opportunity to do so at a client, I took a few screenshots during the process to write this blog post that demonstrates the process. Prerequisites Before
I’ve been working with VMware Site Recover Manager (SRM) sparsely over the past few years and had thought I’ve seen most of the error messages but came across one today that I had not seen before so I thought it would be worth while to
Problem You’ve recently had to reset the password to the SQL authentication account used by your VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager to connect to the SRM database so you proceed to update the ODBC System DSN as such: However, attempting to start the VMware vCenter
Problem You attempt to expand a hard disk of a vSphere Replication replicated virtual machine but immediately receive the following error: Reconfigure virtual machine Invalid or unsupported virtual machine configuration. See the error stack for details on the cause of this problem. vSphere Replication does
Problem You’ve recently upgraded vCenter from 5.1 to 5.5 and quickly noticed that you receive the following error when attempting to load Site Recovery Manager: Connection Error: Lost connection to SRM Server 192.168.155.10:8095 The server ‘192.168.155.10’ could not interpret the client’s request. (The remote server
I was recently asked by a client to assist with migrating their current VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.1.1.7655 from one database server to another. As I’ve done this in the past a few times, I figure it wouldn’t take me much time but to my
I’ve noticed that I’ve received quite a few calls over the past year from clients asking me about how to properly use the dr-ip-customizer.exe executable on an SRM server to export an example CSV file, edit the file and re-import into their SRM environment to
Problem You’ve just rebuilt VMware SRM (Site Recovery Manager) 4.1.1 after suffering a host failure and would like to rerun the Configure option for the Array Manager: You navigate through the wizard to the Review Replicated Datastores window and decide to run the Rescan Arrays
I’ve been meaning to write a post about recovering / reinstalling SRM 4.1 after having to rebuild one when a client suffered a host failure but never got the chance to until this weekend. The incident happened during a planned datacenter move a few weeks
