{"id":248,"date":"2013-05-11T21:56:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T21:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/virtualworlduk.co.uk\/?p=248"},"modified":"2013-05-11T21:56:53","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T21:56:53","slug":"vmware-srm-failed-to-sync-data-on-replica-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virtualworlduk.co.uk\/wordp\/vmware-srm-failed-to-sync-data-on-replica-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware SRM &#8211; Failed to Sync data on Replica Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across an interesting situation when performing a Test recovery using VMware SRM, I received the following error:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/virtualworlduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/srmerror.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-249\" alt=\"srmerror\" src=\"http:\/\/virtualworlduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/srmerror-300x16.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"16\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I performed a quick google to try to find a solution to the error message but there wasn&#8217;t anything listed, the only suggested solution I could find was to uninstall VMware SRM, reinstall it using a new database&#8230; this was not a solution with a looming Disaster Recovery Test and therefore I thought that I would try to correct the issue myself.<\/p>\n<p>The configuration I have utilises IBM XIVs with Storage Array replication although I believe that the same steps should still work for other arrays.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Remove all disks from the consistency group experiencing this error<\/li>\n<li>Deactivate the mirror on the consistency group and then delete the mirror pair<\/li>\n<li>Delete the consistency group on both the source array and the destination array<\/li>\n<li>Create a new consistency group on both the source and destination arrays<\/li>\n<li>Create a new mirror pair for the consistency group that has just been created<\/li>\n<li>Activate the new mirror pair and make sure that they are synchronised<\/li>\n<li>Add the required LUNs to the newly created consistency group<\/li>\n<li>Rescan the SRAs in the SRM client several times to update the connections, this may not update correctly the first time<\/li>\n<li>Check that all of the LUNs in the consistency group have an arrow against them indicating the replication direction on both the source and destination arrays within SRM<\/li>\n<li>Go to your recovery plan and perform a test recovery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across an interesting situation when performing a Test recovery using VMware SRM, I received the following error: I performed a quick google to try to find a solution to the error message but there wasn&#8217;t anything listed, the only suggested solution I could find was to uninstall VMware SRM, reinstall it using a new database&#8230; this was not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[17,19,22,26,30,32,43],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-srm","tag-consistency-group","tag-error-failed-to-sync","tag-ibm","tag-replication","tag-srm-2","tag-test-recovery","tag-xiv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualworlduk.co.uk\/wordp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualworlduk.co.uk\/wordp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualworlduk.co.uk\/wordp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualworlduk.co.uk\/wordp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualworlduk.co.uk\/wordp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualworlduk.co.uk\/wordp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualworlduk.co.uk\/wordp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualworlduk.co.uk\/wordp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualworlduk.co.uk\/wordp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}