Bandwith constraints on initial replication of VM's

[Kaylin]

Hi Guys,

I have a production and DR site configured with SRM and VR and im replicating my VM's using vm replication and not storage arrays. I have setup pairing and both VR and SRM.

We currently have a 10 Mb line that I need to replicate 15 VM's with a total size of 15 TB. The two sites are on different subnets and I would like to find out what will be the best way to do my initial replication between the two sites.

I was thinking of creating a vlan that is the same subnet as my DR and bringing the equipment to my production setting up the initial replication then taking it back and it would only be the incrementals after that and I would not need to change ip's

If there is a better way of doing this please can you'll suggest or point me in the right direction.

Regards

Kaylin

[vbrowncoat · Accepted solution]

You could do that. You could also copy your VMs to an external drive and use that as a seed for the replication.

[Kaylin]

Thanks, we created a vlan that simulates the ip subnet at our DR installed SRM, VR and vCenter setup the bindings and started the replications.

Once all the workloads completed we took our hardware and installed it DR and all work outed fine