Add RecoverPoint 4.1 with SRM RecoverPoint SRA 2.2 fails with error “SRA command ‘discoverArrays’ failed” UPDATED

During an installation and configuration of an SRM solution for a customer based on EMC RecoverPoint 4.1 I ran in to an interesting issue.

When I tried to add the RecoverPoint Clusters on both sites using the RecoverPoint SRA 2.2 I received the following error message:

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Update on LUN connectivity issues with Storage vMotion on EMC VNX when using VAAI

A while ago I posted an article on LUN connectivity issues with Storage vMotion on EMC VNX when using VAAI we experienced.

Today I did received an e-mail from EMC they are able to reproduce our issues in their lab, which is an important step to get these issues resolved, since we can only do limited tests in our production environment. Great news to start the weekend. Will update again when I get more details on this.

LUN connectivity issues with Storage vMotion on EMC VNX when using VAAI

The last few weeks I have been working on some serious issues in an environment where we used vSphere 5 with an EMC VNX storage array. All seemed to run fine, but whenever we started a Storage vMotion, we noticed all kinds of strange errors we where not expecting at all.

We saw messages regarding write-quiesced VMFS volumes, we lost paths. and in some cases, the Storage vMotions did not complete at all.

During these Storage vMotions we noticed datastore latency peaked at more then 5 seconds on the source and destination LUN’s.

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