SRA Log Location and Content: VMware Live Site Recovery

Products

• VMware Live Recovery

Issue/Introduction

This article explains where Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) logs are stored and what they contain.

Environment

VMware Live Site Recovery 9.x

VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.x

Resolution

An SRA is a program that a disk array vendor provides and installed on the VMware Live Site Recovery (VLSR) appliance. It enables VLSR to work with a specific kind of array for array-based replication. SRA receives and interprets requests from VLSR, and recomposes the request to a format understandable to the array.

The default location for SRA logs is /opt/vmware/support/logs/srm/SRAs directory on VLSR appliance. These logs record communication between the VLSR and Array Manager via the SRA. The VLSR support bundle includes the log files.

If an SRA issue occurs, contact the array vendor for assistance.

Additional Information

If /dev/loop0 partition (mounted on /opt/vmware/support/logs/srm/SRAs) reaches 100% capacity, VLSR services will stop, and SRA operations (like planned migrations or device discovery) will fail.

• SRM services stop due to unmanaged SRA log file accumulation
• /opt/vmware/support on Site Recovery Manager got filled on running the clean-sras-logs.sh