
Change Recovery Settings
You can adjust default values for timeouts that occur when you test or run a recovery plan. You might
adjust default values if tasks fail to finish because of timeouts.
Several types of timeouts can occur when recovery plan steps run. These timeouts cause the plan to pause
for a specified interval to give the step time to finish.
Site Recovery Manager applies some advanced settings to a virtual machine at the moment that you
configure protection on that virtual machine:
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recovery.defaultPriority
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recovery.powerOnTimeout
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recovery.powerOnDelay
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recovery.customizationTimeout
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recovery.skipGuestShutdown
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recovery.powerOffTimeout
Site Recovery Manager keeps a copy of virtual machine recovery settings on each Site Recovery Manager
site. If recovery advanced settings are different on the protection and recovery sites,Site Recovery Manager
initializes recovery settings for a virtual machine to different values at each site. Then when
Site Recovery Manager recovers the virtual machine from site A to site B, it applies the local recovery
settings for site B. When recovering from site B to site A Site Recovery Manager applies the local recovery
settings for site A. This condition exists until you explicitly edit and save individual virtual machine
recovery settings from the recovery plan Virtual Machines tab. Recovery settings for the affected virtual
machine synchronize and become identical on both Site Recovery Manager sites.
Procedure
1 In the vSphere Web Client, click Site Recovery > Sites, and select a site.
2 On the Manage tab, click Advanced Settings.
3 Click Recovery.
4 Click Edit to modify the recovery site settings.
Option Action
Change the IP customization
timeout. The default value is 600
seconds.
Enter a new value in the recovery.customizationTimeout text box.
Change the default priority for
recovering a virtual machine. The
default value is 3.
Enter a new value in the recovery.defaultPriority text box.
Enable or disable forced recovery.
The default value is false.
Select or deselect the recovery.forceRecovery check box. Activate forced
recovery in cases where a lack of connectivity to the protected site severely
affects RTO. This setting only removes the restriction to select forced
recovery when running a recovery plan. To actually enable forced
recovery, select it when you run a plan.
Change the timeout for hosts in a
cluster to power on. The default
value is 1200 seconds.
Enter a new value in the recovery.hostPowerOnTimeout text box.
Change the timeout for guest OS to
power off. The default value is 300
seconds.
Enter a new value in the recovery.powerOffTimeout text box. The new
time-out value applies to power-off tasks for virtual machines at the
protected site.
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