Thomas Vit

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July 9th, 2019 06:00

Testing Equallogic SAN restore

I have an old PS4100 SAN replicating to a secondary DC. 

The SAN contains 7 ESX datastores, they are all replicated and I have been asked to test a restore.

Looking in EqualLogic group Manager in the Inbound Replicas list on the target SAN, I only see the option to promote replica sets to volume.

I need to set a replica online at the target site, there is an ESX cluster there that has iSCSI connectivity to the SAN so I can mount the volume using CHAP authentication.

Is the procedure outlined somewhere?

Is it a matter of promoting to volume a replica set, mount the volume in ESX and then import VMs? Once I am done with the restore test what should I do with volume?