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VMAN - VMWare Site Recovery Manager - Placeholders show DOWN

omnishawn over 1 year ago

We have multiple vmware environments 1 of which is protected by SRM for DR. In SolarWinds it is reporting all of the Placeholders as Down VMs despite not actually being VMs. How do we resolve this? Why doesnt VMAN know how to deal with placeholders?

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0 jklundy over 1 year ago

Hi Shawn - I don't have an answer to your question, just a question for you. Do you see any SRM specific data in your environment? Such as replication status, number of running replications etc?

I'm just getting started with VMAN and have the basics, just looking for more things we can monitor. I believe the replication information is exposed in the API and/or MOB, I just wonder if VMAN is actually collecting it.

Thanks
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0 omnishawn over 1 year ago in reply to jklundy

Correct the SolarWinds is pulling the same data as the vsphere mob but "out of box" I do not see any information from the Site Recovery Manager being populated anywhere in Solarwinds.

I am currently testing a solution from Solarwinds where we placed the placeholders in a Folder and then changed the role of the Solarwinds service to No Access. Not quite the solution I was looking for, waiting for the results still.
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0 jklundy over 1 year ago in reply to omnishawn

Well, that stinks. I was really hoping to report or alert on different replication status.

We don't see the placeholders in our SW. Possibly a different configuration of SRM. I'm not a VM guru and had nothing to do with our implementation.

Good luck.
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0 omnishawn over 1 year ago in reply to jklundy

Yeah i believe most of my issues are stemming from a lack of best practices being implemented by my predecessors.
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0 omnishawn over 1 year ago in reply to jklundy

Yeah i believe most of my issues are stemming from a lack of best practices being implemented by my predecessors.
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