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February 4th, 2016 01:00
Recoverpoint for vm - Protecting vm's with Physical RDM
Hi,
I am trying to protect a windows 2012 virtual machine with physical RDM of 2TB .
Has anyone protected a vm using this much of data in RP4VM ? how did you selected the target vm? Automatically or manually?
My understanding is with the automatic option it looks for free space in the datastore registered for the remote site.
Do i have to create a vm at the remote site with same disks (70gb win os , 2TB RDM) and then select the vm manually?
tried searching the documentation with no luck.
Thank you
H
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Idan
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February 4th, 2016 04:00
Hi Hamid,
Yes, we have customers who are replicating large VMDKs, we support up to 10TB VMDK and 40TB VM so it shouldn't be an issue.
As for automatic replica VM creation, you can either let RP4VM create the replica VM automatically which means that VMDKs will be used or manually specified by the user. The latter will allow to replicate to VMDKs and/or RDMs.
Regards,
Idan Kentor
RecoverPoint Corporate Systems Engineer
Twitter: @IdanKentor
hamid_afzal
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February 4th, 2016 05:00
Hi Idan,
Thank you for your response , I am currently doing a POC for a customer and everything seems to be working fine with non rdm virtual machines until I try to replicate a vm with 70gb OS disk and 2TB physical rdm.
The initialization starts and throws error at 2% then continues till 4% .
Below are the steps I am following;
Since automatically create VM option failed (didn't had 2tb space at dr data store)
Create a vm at dr vCenter cluster with identical hardware and VM disks (hdd 1 OS 70 Gb , hdd 2 2TB physical rdm)
While creating the CG , I choose the manually specify virtual machine in the cluster.
Initialization never completes and results in an error.
Regards,
H
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forshr
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February 5th, 2016 00:00
Hi H,
The target RDM vdisk needs to be the same as the source.
Regards,
Rich Forshaw
Consultant Corporate Systems Engineer - RecoverPoint & VPLEX (EMEA)
Data Protection and Availability Solutions
EMC Europe Limited
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