During this peace of work I hit something that I thought I should highlight as I could only find one article on the problem posted here from our friends over at Xtravirt. The post was more of less identical to what I had done to resolve the problem but, I was searching to see if there were any additional activities I may have missed that could have impacted my customer.
So what was the problem?
Well I was installing SRM, Configured all the resource mapping for failover and fail-back Installed the SRA for EMC RecoverPoint, paired the SRA's and run a discovery. And I found NO paired datastores as shown in the screen below.
So I asked the storage admins to check the policy for the consistency groupes in RecoverPoint. The customer had a look but was new to EMC and RecoverPoint so I logged on check this for them.
This screenshot is from the Xtravirt blog as I could not use a customer one and dont have any RecoverPoint appliances configured. Hope Xtravirt dont mind.
When I logged on the Policy was set to "Group is in maintenance mode, It is managed by RecoverPoint , SRM can only Monitor" This in not so many words means that SRM can not action anything to the consistency group and so any Failover and/or test Failover activities can not be performed by the SRA being used with SRM. As a result SRM classes the consistency group as an object it has no control over and so does not show it in the SRM Array Managers. Change the Option to "Group is managed by SRM, RecoverPoint can only monitor" and this changes this behavior This allows the SRA full control over the LUNs in the consistency group.
Now that option is configured on the RecoverPoint appliance, go back to SRM and refresh the SRA making sure it is paired with the remote site first. You should see all the paired LUNs in the display Window now.
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