Hello,

Just setup a 4.3 environment yesterday (2 vRPAs per cluster, with 2vCPU & 4GB ram each). I created a CG with a single VM being protected (Windows 2012 R2). The VM is a fresh install with a 40GB disk. I waited until the CG was finished its init and performed a test copy. I then wanted to see what happened if I filled the journal up. Here's what I did:

• Copied 1GB into the replica VM (logged access storage showed 50% used)
• Copied data to the production VM until the usage showed 87% in the journal.
• Tried copying additional data to the replica VM (my intent was to completely fill the logged access storage)

While the copy was occurring, the VM froze and I noticed that an action to power off the VM had been performed in vCenter. This took awhile, but it eventually worked. The logged access showed 0GB stored after this event. Unfortunately, both of my vRPA's in Cluster-2 also froze. I tried getting to them via the terminal, but I could never reach a login prompt. I also had an error in the GUI for lost communication (sorry I don't have the exact error). I thought I would then reboot each vRPA in Cluster-2. Since the VM's were froze (VMWare tool not running), I had use reset, but this failed. I then tried killing the VM process using ESXcli and ESXtop, but was unsuccessful.

esxcli vm process kill --type= [soft,hard,force] --world-id= WorldNumber

I am now rebooting both of my hosts that had the frozen vRPAs.

I have a few questions:

1. The Journal I created was 10GB in size. If I understand correctly, up to 20% of the size of the journal can be used to store writes made to the replica VM (logged access space). Is this space reserved, meaning that I only get 80% of the journal capacity, for 'journal writes' or can I actually use all of the journal space?

2. What is supposed to happen if the journal fills? if the logged access storage fills?