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EMC RecoverPoint

1) Recoverpoint is not capable of restricting overall bandwidth used by all protection groups.  Recoverpoint is capable of restricting bandwidth used by each protection group individually.
2) The Recoverpoint WAN and LAN networks may not be the same logical network.
3) Recoverpoint uses MTU on the WAN network.  If Recoverpoint's MTU does not match the actual MTU of your WAN, Recoverpoint won't communicate successfully with the other side of the WAN.
4) Customer aren't allowed to install RecoverPoint and EMC does not make it easy to try. The passwords you will need to access RecoverPoint are in the RecoverPoint Administrator's Guide 300-010-641.pdf

EMC RecoverPoint SRM Failback plugin

The EMC RecoverPoint SRM Failback plugin is nearly useless.  These issues were reported to EMC support and I was told these features are by design and won't be fixed.

1) When it fails back, it errors out telling you that you must manually resignature the volumes.  This is something SRM does for you automatically.
2) When it fails back, it forces every single VMware server (not just the servers you are protecting with SRM) on the production vCenter server to scan all their HBAs one at a time, serially.  If you have dozens or hundreds of other servers that are not running SRM, this forced rescan can take hours. It should only force those servers on the SRM cluster in question to rescan.