Hello all

I have been struggling with this for a several days now and I am hopeful that one of you will be able to help out.

First here is our configuration:

Site 1

Avamar Node 1 (Physical)

DatadomainA (DDA)

DatadomainX (DDX)

Site 2

Avamar Node 2 (Physical)

DatadomainB (DDB)

DatadomainY (DDY)

Node 1 writes its backups to DDA

Node 1's backups are then replicated across the wire to DDB

As you can guess

Node 2 writes its backups to DDB

Node 2's backups are then replicated across the wire to DDA

We were running low on free space on DDA and DDB. After talking with our EMC guy we decided that we wanted to start using our older Datadomains (DDX & DDY) to store some of the replicated backups to. We know that we will not be able to move existing replicated backups and are fine with replicating backups from now forward.

I have followed the instructions that I have been able to find in this forum, and in the "Avamar Data Domain Integration guide":

1. Create a new domain on Node 1
2. Let replication occur from Node 1 to Node 2
3. On Node 2 add a storage mapping selecting the newly created domain on Node 1 and DDY as the replication target
4. On Node 1 move the VM to the newly created domain on Node 2.
5. Let replication occur

I have also tried this going the other way and as of yet I have not been able to get Avamar to use DDX or DDY for replication.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Jamison