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June 21st, 2017 13:00
Dell EMC Unity VSA and VMware Site Recovery Manager
Hi all,
I have two Unity VSA appliances deployed in two vCenters. Using NFS shares in both. I have VMware Site Recovery manager connected to both through Unity File Storage Replication Adapter (SRA). Trying to run SRM recovery plan test and it fails with the following message in Unity during the execution:
Failed: The system was unable to find the specified share created on storage server. (Error Code:0x5c00072)
A little bit about the environment:
two vCenters with 3 hosts each in two different locations (different subnets)
UnityVSA1 NAS server (nas01) is 192.168.232.8, set to replicate to UnityVSA2 (this VM is on 10.3.32.0/24)
a single datastore on UnityVSA1 is replicated to UnityVSA2, no issues - I can see the replicated datastore and the NAS server (nas01) on UnityVSA2
another datastore on UnityVSA1 is not replicated (on the same NAS server nas01)
On UnityVSA2, I have overridden the IP settings for the replicated NAS server to put it on 10.3.32.9, because ESXi hosts on the recovery side cannot see 192.168.232.8, only 10.3.32.0/24
When I run SRM recovery plan test, I can see that the UnityVSA2 creates a snapshot of the replicated datastore and tries to export it to the recovery ESXi hosts, but it fails with the error mentioned above. The reason, it seems, is rooted in the fact that the NAS server (nas01) interface 10.3.32.9 is inactive on the recovery UnityVSA2.
So the question is how do I test the SRM recovery plan without failing over the NAS server (which obviously I don't want to do, since I'm just testing). Thanks!



andreir0
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June 22nd, 2017 06:00
Turns out that you need to add a second IP to your NAS server in the DR location... NAS Servers -> Edit -> Network -> "IP Interface for Backup and Test". And a second BC/Test IP to your primary NAS if you want to test the recovery once you failed over, before doing the failback.
Just leaving it here if someone else will encounter this issue.
Rainer_EMC
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June 22nd, 2017 08:00
thanks for the feedback