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Disaster Recovery using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager

By : Abhilash G B
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Disaster Recovery using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager

By: Abhilash G B

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Disaster Recovery Using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Configuring VM recovery properties


The VM recovery properties help in further customizing the recovery procedure at a per-VM level. Although these properties are only available via a Recovery Plan, the changes made to these properties are retained for the VM, regardless of the Recovery Plan they would be included in.

The following are the properties that can be set on a protected virtual machine:

  • IP Settings

  • Priority Group

  • VM Dependencies

  • Shutdown Action

  • Startup Action

  • Pre-power On Steps

  • Post Power On Steps

Here is how you could get to the Recovery Properties of a virtual machine:

  1. Navigate to the vCenter Server's inventory home page and click on Site Recovery.

  2. Click on Recovery Plans on the left pane.

  3. Select a Recovery Plan (A) and navigate to its Virtual Machines tab (B), which should list all the virtual machines that are included in the Recovery Plan.

  4. Select a virtual machine from the list (C) and click on Configure Recovery (D) to bring up the VM recovery properties:

The VM Properties...