Replication Manager with VSphere RDM and virtual disks

Question

hello, I am implementing my first celerra-to-celerra replication of various VM in vSphere environment, some of my VMs have virtual disks (VMDK) others have VMDK and RDM physical disks with MS-SQL on them. I wish to replicate consistently SQL on RDM and also VMDK disks; reading through 'RM Administrator Manual' I found some constraints on whitch I would like to be confirmed: 1) RM Admin Manual Pg. 309 states 'Disaster recovery of celerra Raw Device Mapping LUN requires RPQ' --- what does this actually mean ? Since on pg. 288 explains how to replicate a RDM, if I can replicate a RDM can I also mount it on a remote celerra as a DR ? I thought yes.... 2) RM Admin Manual Pg. 270 states ' Virtual disk support by Replication Manager requires that each virtual disk is to be the only virtual disk in its datastore (VMFS)....' this means that I have to bild a LUN/DataStore for each single virtual disk? Manual is very clear on that but I want to be sure since I should modify my present datastore configuration that has more than one VD on a single datastore like on the vast majority of VMware installations thanks in advance to anyone that would clarify my doubts Gianluigi

Nbohari · Answer

Unfortunately, I don't have answers to your questions but RM Watchers D/L may be a better place to ask these as majority of EMC RM community subsscribe to it.

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