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October 14th, 2013 11:00
SRM Protected LUNs and RecoverPoint Replicated LUNs
We are running VMware SRM 5.0 and RecoverPoint 3.4 SP2. Running vCenter 5.0 and ESXi 5.0. The problem we are getting and the answer from VMware SRM and EMC RP support are conflicting each other. Our SRM failover process failed due to DR replicated LUNs were not detected during HBA scan. VMware support said that the Replicated LUN does not have to be added the VMware Storage Group on our VNX5300 (DR). The LUN is only added to the RP Storage Group. SRM/RP will present the luns in VMware as part of the SRM failover process. EMC tells us that the replicated LUN must be present in both VMware and RP Storage Group.
The failover process does not complete until we added the replicated lun into the VMware Storage Group. However, we previously tested other SRM protected LUNs and this was never required. Can someone provide the specific details on the RecoverPoint requirement to add the replicated LUN to the VMware Storage Group?
thanks
etaljic81
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October 14th, 2013 12:00
Yes, that's the default behavior. You can actually change that in SRM advanced options so that snap-xxxx doesn't show up. SRM will rename the datastore for you from snap-xxxx to the name of the actual datastore.
vqt4111
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October 14th, 2013 11:00
Hi Ernes,
Thanks for the quick response. That seems to be the case but I do have another question that might be for VMware. When we fail back our VMs from DR to Prod. The production LUNs are renamed as well. An example would be the original Protected LUN was name LUN01-SRM in vcenter but after the failback it has been renamed to snap.WWN.LUN01-SRM. Should this be the case? I would hate to think that is the process.
etaljic81
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October 14th, 2013 11:00
VMware support didn't provide you the correct answer. SRM will not put the target LUNs to the VMware storage group for you since it doesn't have that ability.
etaljic81
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October 14th, 2013 12:00
See screenshots below
vqt4111
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October 14th, 2013 13:00
thanks!