Dear All ,
We have two sites A & B running on Vmware ESX 5.5 hosts with Vsphere HA and SRM enabled on each site.
When we tested the failure of Site "A", protected VMs of site A are successfully activated in Site "B" but the chaos started when site A came back online. This is because, when HA on Site A came online, it started all its protected VMs . This resulted us having two instance of the same VMs running on both the sites for the interim period .Issue got sorted after running SRM recovery plan , which turned off the Site A's protected VMs from Site B.
Problem is how to avoid getting multiple instances of the same VMs running on both sides before running recovery plan . Is there any way to configure HA or SRM on Site A to cross check site B and prevent booting the protected VM's on Site A, if it is already running on site B.
Apologies if the above message is not very clear and thanks for your help in advance..
Regards
PD.