We have deployed VMware 5.5 U1 in 2 sites on HP DL360p G8 servers with direct connected MSA 2040 iSCSI SANs. The intent is to use HP Remote Snap enabled replication, with SRM 5.8 to manage the recovery and reprotect. We've installed the hardware, networked the iSCSI, installed vmware, installed the SRM and SRA, configured the remote SANs and setup volume replication. That all works as expected.
When we run a test recovery, that is successful. When we run a real Recovery, we get error messages and find additional information in the sra log file that indicates an incomplete command, referencing unidentified initiators. Volumes and VMs are left in a transient state and it is a mess to cleanup. It appears the the command.pl file in the installed vsa version 5.8.0.24 does not properly detect that the volumes were Default mapped and builds the command using the Explicit mapping format. That fails as there are no values for the referenced initiators. We made a minor edit to the command.pl file to not include initiators, and that allowed the Recovery operation to complete successfully. Reprotect fails miserably and we are past the range of being able to troubleshoot this further.
Has anyone ever setup vmware SRM with MSA2040 array based replication and been successful with the Recovery and Reprotect operations. Since the MSA2000 uses the same SRA, so that configuration should be a valid comparable. As a side note, we setup vmware replication and can run recovery and reprotect successfully. The 15 minute replication cycle is not acceptable for this particular application, so we need to figure out array replication.
Any advice welcome.