vSphere Replication offline/offsite

[EpsI]

Hi,

I have been tasked a replication that consist in 15TB. This task is to occur over a very narrow bandwith (ridiculous to be honest) and the estimation is extremely high (two weeks, yep! two weeks, including business hours)

I'm wondering if is possible to offset the first replication to a external drive(s), ship all HDs, attach the content to Site B and re-establish Replication by incrementals

At this stage, vSphere Replication its the only method to consider (no veeam or others are to be played)

Much appreciated,

Manuel

[mmarinov]

Hi Manuel,

vSphere Replication support using seeds during the initial sync of the virtual machine. To achieve that you need to manual download the vmdk files from the source, through the vSphere Web Client, ship them to the other site and manually upload them on a the desired datastore. Please consider upload them in a manually created folder on the datastore rather on the root folder.

Then from the source site start the configuration wizard and point the destination folder the one that you have created vSphere Replication will recognize the vmdks and will sync just the changes.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

--Martin