When selecting to access one of the images, the shadow VM is shutdown and deregistered while the replica VM is being registered and started up. That process should take very little time but it will also depend on vCenter's load including other concurrent operations.
Assuming there aren't a lot of changes to roll back, as you're indicating, it definitely shouldn't take too long to start the replica VM. Now the amount of time to start the replica VM would depend on storage performance as well as ESX resource consumption.
The time to go into IA would also depend on the preferred vRPA load.
I have run a bunch more tests and it seems to be variable when I look at all the times. My load is minimal on both the vRPA's and ESX setup and there is plenty of horsepower to be consumed so that is why it struck me as odd. The snapshots being applied are tiny (just changing a file during each test). Sometimes it takes Windows a while to reconfigure and other times if goes fast. I have chalked it up to a Windows process more than an RP process from what I can tell. Maybe there is something about the replica copy that makes Windows think it is a new setup and has to reconfigure. I'll let you know if I see any other oddities. Thanks for the response!
Idan
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September 16th, 2015 01:00
Hi Keith,
When selecting to access one of the images, the shadow VM is shutdown and deregistered while the replica VM is being registered and started up. That process should take very little time but it will also depend on vCenter's load including other concurrent operations.
Assuming there aren't a lot of changes to roll back, as you're indicating, it definitely shouldn't take too long to start the replica VM. Now the amount of time to start the replica VM would depend on storage performance as well as ESX resource consumption.
The time to go into IA would also depend on the preferred vRPA load.
Regards,
Idan Kentor
RecoverPoint Corporate Systems Engineering
idan.kentor@emc.com
echolaughmk
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September 16th, 2015 05:00
Thanks Idan,
I have run a bunch more tests and it seems to be variable when I look at all the times. My load is minimal on both the vRPA's and ESX setup and there is plenty of horsepower to be consumed so that is why it struck me as odd. The snapshots being applied are tiny (just changing a file during each test). Sometimes it takes Windows a while to reconfigure and other times if goes fast. I have chalked it up to a Windows process more than an RP process from what I can tell. Maybe there is something about the replica copy that makes Windows think it is a new setup and has to reconfigure. I'll let you know if I see any other oddities. Thanks for the response!
-Keith