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Syntax of the DR IP Customizer Tool

The DR IP Customizer tool includes options that you can use to gather networking information about the virtual machines that
Site Recovery Manager
 protects. You can also use the options to apply customizations to virtual machines when they start up on the recovery site.
With
Site Recovery Manager
, you can define subnet-level IP mapping rules to customize IP settings on virtual machines by using the DR IP Customizer tool. You can use subnet-level IP mapping rules in combination with DR IP Customizer. For information about how you can use subnet-level IP mapping rules and DR IP Customizer together, see Customizing IP Properties for Multiple Virtual Machines.
The
dr-ip-customizer
 is located in the
/opt/vmware/srm/bin/
 directory on the appliance.
When you run
dr-ip-customizer
, you specify different options depending on whether you are generating or applying a comma-separated value (CSV) file. 
dr-ip-customizer 
--cfg 
SRM Server configuration XML

--cmd apply/drop/generate 
[--csv 
Name of existing CSV File
] 
[--out 
Name of new CSV file to generate
] 
--uri 
https://host[:port]/lookupservice/sdk

--vcid 
UUID
 
[--ignore-thumbprint] 
[--extra-dns-columns] 
[--verbose]
You can run the DR IP Customizer tool on either the protected site or on the recovery site. Virtual machine IDs for protected virtual machines are different at each site, so whichever site you use when you run the DR IP Customizer tool to generate the CSV file, you must use the same site when you run DR IP Customizer again to apply the settings.
Some of the options that the DR IP Customizer tool provides are mandatory, others are optional.
DR IP Customizer Options
Option
Description
Mandatory
-h [ --help ]
Displays usage information about
dr-ip-customizer.exe
 or
dr-ip-customizer
.
No
--cfg arg
Path to the application XML configuration file,
vmware-dr.xml
.
Yes
--cmd arg
You specify different commands to run DR IP Customizer in different modes.
  • The
    apply
     command applies the network customization settings from an existing CSV file to the recovery plans on the
    Site Recovery Manager Server
     instances.
  • The
    generate
     command generates a basic CSV file for all virtual machines that
    Site Recovery Manager
     protects for a
    vCenter Server
     instance.
  • The
    drop
     command removes the recovery settings from virtual machines specified by the input CSV file.
Always provide the same
vCenter Server
 instance for the
apply
 and
drop
 commands as the one that you used to generate the CSV file.
Yes
--csv arg
Path to the CSV file.
Yes, when running the
apply
 and
drop
 commands.
-o [ --out ] arg
Name of the new CSV output file that the
generate
 command creates. If you provide the name of an existing CSV file, the
generate
 command overwrites its current contents.
Yes, when you run the
generate
 command.
--uri arg
Lookup Service URL on the Platform Service Controller with the form
https://host[:port]/lookupservice/sdk
. Specify the port if it is not 443 . The
Site Recovery Manager
 instance associates this address with the primary site's infranode.
Use the same
vCenter Server
 instance for the
apply
 and
drop
 commands as the one that you used to generate the CSV file.
Yes
--vcid arg
The primary site
vCenter Server
 instance UUID.
Optional, unless the primary site infrastructure contains more than one
vCenter Server
 instance.
-i [ --ignore-thumbprint ]
Ignore the
vCenter Server
 thumbprint confirmation prompt.
No
-e [ --extra-dns-columns ]
Must be specified if the input CSV file contains extra columns for DNS information.
No
-v [ --verbose ]
Enable verbose output. You can include a
--verbose
 option on any
dr-ip-customizer.exe
 or
dr-ip-customizer
 command line to log additional diagnostic messages.
No
The tool can print the UUID to the Lookup Service whenever the
--vcid
 value is unspecified, as in this example: 
/opt/vmware/srm/bin/dr-ip-customizer --cfg "/opt/vmware/srm/conf/vmware-dr.xml" -i --cmd generate -o "/home/admin/output.csv" --uri
https://service.company.com:443/lookupservice/sdk --vcid ?
The resulting error message includes the
vCenter Server
 instance UUID followed by the
vCenter Server
 DNS host name for each
vCenter Server
 registered with the Lookup Service:
ERROR: Failed to locate VC instance. Use one of the following known VC instances: e07c907e-cd41-4fe7-b38a-f4c0e677a18c vc.company.com

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