Determining which Storage Replication Adapter is being used with Site Recovery Manager

Products

• VMware Live Recovery

Issue/Introduction

A Storage Replication Adapters (SRA) allows VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to integrate with 3rd party storage array technology.

It can be difficult to determine which SRA is being used with a particular SRM deployment. This article provides information to help you determine, from a VMware SRM perspective, which SRA is installed.

Symptoms:

Environment

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4.0.x

Resolution

SRA information can be determined from the SRM log files on the SRM server. The name of the log file is vmware-dr-X.log, where X is an incremental number. The log files are typically located in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager\Logs.

Search in the logs for command.pl. The SRA that is being used is in the full path to command.pl.

For example:

Note: Many SRAs are supported. This list of examples is not exhaustive.

• This is the SRA for an EMC Clariion storage array:
  
  [2009-06-30 03:23:11.523 05596 info 'SecondarySanProvider'] Command Line for testFailover: "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager\external\perl-5.8.8\bin\perl.exe" "C:/Program Files/VMware/VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager/scripts/SAN/clariion/command.pl"
  
• This is the SRA for an IBM SVC storage array:
  
  [2009-12-30 23:59:59.523 05596 info 'SecondarySanProvider'] Command Line for testFailover: "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager\external\perl-5.8.8\bin\perl.exe" "C:/Program Files/VMware/VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager/scripts/SAN/IBMSVC/command.pl"
  
• This is the SRA for EMC RecoverPoint:
  
  [2010-01-25 10:39:48.218 'SecondarySanProvider' 3932 info] Command Line for testFailover: "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Site Recovery Manager\external\perl-5.8.8\bin\perl.exe" "C:/Program Files/VMware/VMware Site Recovery Manager/scripts/SAN/array-type-recoverpoint/command.pl"
  
• This is the SRA for an EMC Symmetrix storage array:
  
  [2010-01-28 09:23:42.663 00844 info 'SecondarySanProvider'] Command Line for testFailover: "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager\external\perl-5.8.8\bin\perl.exe" "C:/Program Files/VMware/VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager/scripts/SAN/EMC Symmetrix/command.pl"

Additional Information

For more information about Storage Replication Adapters and setting up third party storage arrays with SRM, see Setting up VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager with Partner Storage Arrays (1014610).