Environment

• 2 sites connected with dark fiber
• 2 FC switch for each site with ISL between each pair of switch (2 fabric)
• 2 RPA for each site with asynchronous replication (1 minute)
• 2 vcenter 5.1 with SRM server installed on the vcenter server
• EMC VSI 5.6 plugin installed on of production and DR vcenter server
• Replication Manager server to have application consistency on Oracle MSSQL and Exchange

Everything works.

We can do SRM test failover accessing on the Production site the EMC VSI plugin and selecting the application consistent PIT that we need.

Problem description

In a disaster condition we cannot access the production site vCenter to select the specific PIT (through EMC VSI tab of the selected VM).

We have only the DR vcenter. On the DR vCenter Server if we select a VM placeholder (which is a special icon the represent the configuration of the production VM on the vCenter DR site) we cannot see the list of PIT to choose from.

So the question is: how in a DR condition I can choose the application consistent PIT? We need to release the DR procedure to the client.

We have read the document EMC VSI for vmware vsphere product guide 5.6 but we cannot find the solution.

Best regards

Stefano