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Nayabsk's avatar
Nayabsk
Level 6
7 years ago

Backup of ESXi machines registered to a different VC

Hi Experts,  Can someone shed some light on my doubt.  We have two sites PROD & DR (STORAGE LEVEL REPLICATION) and DR to be a cold site where all the Machines remain powered off all the time. And th...
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Windows Server 2016
  • eduncan's avatar
    eduncan
    7 years ago

    Assuming you are not using VMware Site replication manager.

    If all the VMs have the same name, depending on the NB version the backup will either fail because duplicate names exist or it will suceed and you don't know which VM was actually backed up.

    As you have two different backup host one for Prod and one for DR.

    What you need to do is setup an exclude, so that in prod we don't look at DR VC, and at DR we setup an exclude to not look at Prod VC.

    https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/doc/123860515-126796677-0/v38343691-126796677

     

  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    7 years ago

    IMHO, the big gap in your DR planning is the lack of a Master server at DR.

    In case of DR (i.e. real disaster where master and everything else at PROD is down, incl VC and all connected to it), you won't have a master server to worry about.

    You Appliance Media server should be a Master/media server with AIR used for replication.
    In this case, the DR master will have credentials to the DR VC.

Marianne's avatar
Marianne
Level 6
7 years ago

IMHO, the big gap in your DR planning is the lack of a Master server at DR.

In case of DR (i.e. real disaster where master and everything else at PROD is down, incl VC and all connected to it), you won't have a master server to worry about.

You Appliance Media server should be a Master/media server with AIR used for replication.
In this case, the DR master will have credentials to the DR VC.