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April 6th, 2009 06:00
Replistor and ESX
I have the need to use Replistor to migrate my VM's to a DR site. I have followed the EMC and ESX guide 300-006-716 and it's pretty straight forward. Basically I have a VM on my DR ESX server that is used to received replicated data from my production VM's. Following the guide, I add HD's to DR VM, replicate the drives, and then I detach and reattach the HD's to new VM's that I create in the DR site. Where I am having issue is the OS HD's. The guide is referring to replicating the OS drives to drives that already have been made bootable:
In order for the destination location to be bootable, you must replicate data to a disk (Virtual Disk or Mapped Raw LUN) that already has boot sector information in place.
So, if I am to add a second drive to an existing VM to be used as a target for replication of an OS drive, how do I make that drive bootable?
Thanks
In order for the destination location to be bootable, you must replicate data to a disk (Virtual Disk or Mapped Raw LUN) that already has boot sector information in place.
So, if I am to add a second drive to an existing VM to be used as a target for replication of an OS drive, how do I make that drive bootable?
Thanks
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dramjass
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April 7th, 2009 08:00
http://powerlink.emc.com/km/live1/en_US/Offering_Technical/White_Paper/H2247_emc_replistore_vmware_sw_wp_ldv.pdf
Page #15 contains the solution you should choose to apply.
Duncan
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April 7th, 2009 10:00
Use VMware to create a temp virtual machine on a SAN LUN. When creating the temp VM and selecting the virtual disk, select System LUN/Disk as shown in Fig 14 and 15 to create the OS device on a physical disk.
We are running ESX 3.5 and I have not see that option when setting up a VM.
Pleaes advise. Thanks!