topic Re: vmware SRM ignore volume in Array Setup and Networking https://community.hpe.com/t5/array-setup-and-networking/vmware-srm-ignore-volume/m-p/6985007#M1548 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Appreciate this is an old thread, but I wanted to post an answer in case it helps others.</P><P></P><P>In SRM you can create multiple protection groups to allow different groups of VMs/services to be moved between sites. When creating protection groups you select which SRM defined "consistency groups" are assigned to it. A SRM consistency group maps to a volume collection in Nimble terms.</P><P></P><P>So in answer to this question make sure the Test/Dev VMs are in a separate datastore which maps to a Nimble volume in its own volume collection (not shared with other datastores).</P><P></P><P>Gotcha - All datastores used by all VMs are included in a consistency group - and this can't be changed. For example, if I have some virtual machines on datastoreA which maps to Nimble volumeA can volumecollectionA this could map to a single consistency group/protection group. However if one of my virtual machines has an ISO attached on a separate ISOdatastore (and this is in a separate volume collection from datastoreA/volumeA) SRM won't allow me to select just datastoreA in the protection group, instead I can only select datastoreA and ISOdatastore.</P><P></P><P>This caught me out when trying to assign a single datastore/volume/volume collection to a protection group, I could only select multiple datastores (some I didn't want) because of the ISO connected to some of the virtual machines.</P><P></P><P>Hope this helps</P><P></P><P>Jason</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 10 Feb 2016 10:03:20 GMT jmonger96 2016-02-10T10:03:20Z vmware SRM ignore volume https://community.hpe.com/t5/array-setup-and-networking/vmware-srm-ignore-volume/m-p/6985006#M1547 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Is there a way to ignore a specific volume/datastore from being used within SRM? I know it possible with Netapp.</P><P>I have 3 datastores, each get replicated to the DR site and SRM is working correctly from that front.</P><P>The problem that I have is that one datastore/volume has all of our Test/Dev VMs that we do not need for SRM and if I don't configure the VM for protection, then the SRM plan will not run fully.</P><P></P><P>SRA version 2.0.5</P><P>Nimble OS: 2.0.6</P><P>Vmware ESX 5.5</P><P>SRM 5.5</P><P></P><P>Thanks</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 02 Jun 2014 17:26:07 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/array-setup-and-networking/vmware-srm-ignore-volume/m-p/6985006#M1547 people45 2014-06-02T17:26:07Z Re: vmware SRM ignore volume https://community.hpe.com/t5/array-setup-and-networking/vmware-srm-ignore-volume/m-p/6985007#M1548 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Appreciate this is an old thread, but I wanted to post an answer in case it helps others.</P><P></P><P>In SRM you can create multiple protection groups to allow different groups of VMs/services to be moved between sites. When creating protection groups you select which SRM defined "consistency groups" are assigned to it. A SRM consistency group maps to a volume collection in Nimble terms.</P><P></P><P>So in answer to this question make sure the Test/Dev VMs are in a separate datastore which maps to a Nimble volume in its own volume collection (not shared with other datastores).</P><P></P><P>Gotcha - All datastores used by all VMs are included in a consistency group - and this can't be changed. For example, if I have some virtual machines on datastoreA which maps to Nimble volumeA can volumecollectionA this could map to a single consistency group/protection group. However if one of my virtual machines has an ISO attached on a separate ISOdatastore (and this is in a separate volume collection from datastoreA/volumeA) SRM won't allow me to select just datastoreA in the protection group, instead I can only select datastoreA and ISOdatastore.</P><P></P><P>This caught me out when trying to assign a single datastore/volume/volume collection to a protection group, I could only select multiple datastores (some I didn't want) because of the ISO connected to some of the virtual machines.</P><P></P><P>Hope this helps</P><P></P><P>Jason</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 10 Feb 2016 10:03:20 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/array-setup-and-networking/vmware-srm-ignore-volume/m-p/6985007#M1548 jmonger96 2016-02-10T10:03:20Z