Thursday
Apr162009
How To: Site Recovery Manager-Recovered Datastore Rename
Thursday, April 16, 2009 at 7:45AMSaw this nugget on the VMware forums that I had just excepted. But I should have guessed if anyone had the answer it was the acclaimed Mike Laverick. When failing over within SRM the replicated LUNs get renamed to snap-xxxxxxx-NAME. To modify this nature the following needs to be reconfigured. Original thread is here. Enjoy!
Locate in the C:\Program Files\Site Recovery Manager\Config directory the vmware-dr.xml file.
Modify the <fixRecoveredDatastoreNames>false</fixRecoveredDatastoreNames> to be
<fixRecoveredDatastoreNames>true</fixRecoveredDatastoreNames>
Reader Comments (1)
Thanks for the name check! I wouldn't say it that we are "correcting" SRM just changing its functionality. Some customers prefer to see snap-xxxxxxx-NAME during a test, others like to see the original name. It depends how unique your VMFS volume names are from site to site I guess as no-one want sanlun, sanlun(1), sanlun(2)... It's interesting this functionality of SRM changed from the Beta to the GA. I'd be interested i knowing more why chose to alter the default...