What changes in an SRM failover and what doesn't change in a VM

Products

• VMware Live Recovery

Issue/Introduction

SRM is coordinating the replication of the VMX file, and moving the VM to a new vCenter, so the attributes it preserves are the ones that are in the VMX file, and unrelated specifically to the protected site vCenter.

Environment

Live Site Recovery 9.0

Resolution

What is preserved:

• GUID (note that the placeholder VM at the recovery site will have it's own UUID. However after a failover, the recovered VM will have the same UUID as it did at the protected site)
• MAC address
• VM config (nics, drives, etc)

What is not preserved

• MOID
• Reservations/limits (these can be configured on the placeholder, or even better, use a resource pool and map it in SRM)
• DRS configurations (affinity/anti-affinity rules, DRS groups, etc)
• VM permissions

Additional Information

reference: Site Recovery Manager FAQ