Best solution for Cross vCenter Parent image sharing/replicating ( Cloud Pod architecture Horizon 7 )?

[Poom22]

Hi guys

I am doing a Cloud Pod Architecture for DR purposes with  2 vCentres/cloud pods  A and B , trying to share Link Parents from A to B , I don't mind replicating them all over to B if I have a good method,

These vCenters are on the same LAN and network , 

I was looking at Content libraries but this seems a lot of admin as I have 30 Link parents, and content libraries only works with templates, so i'd have to convert to a template to transfer, then out of the template again to recompose/make the DR Pool

I guess Veeam is an option ?

Or is there a way that I can make my cloud Pod B see the link parents in A ? vCenter linked mode perhaps?

Bit confused by this and hoping I don't have to go through the content libraries method ,

[sentania]

Did you ever come up with a solution for this.  I'm trying to solution out this same issue right now.

[mcity]

I am also in the same dilemma, anyone with a solution we can try?

[LukaszDziwisz]

We are in the same boat. We do have a shared storage between two datacenters however there is no way you register the same VM under both of them. So what we have done in the past or even now if needed we just clone an image from one side to the shared storage and then import it on another vCenter then modify it, rename, repoint AV agent at local AVM  etc so that it is treated as new image. I'm pretty sure you could get very creative with vRom automation for that purpose but we don't have that available  

[mrkasius]

The Image Management Service (IMS) may help the management, replication, and distribution of Horizon images. It's one of the key features of the Horizon Control Plane.

[Mach6]

I was wondering this as well.

Back when we had a Cloud Pod Architecture running 6 years ago, we would use Veeam to backup our master templates and restore them on our 2nd pod environment.

We're going to reintroduce a Cloud Pod Architecture in the near future after upgrading everything to Horizon 8, and since we're no longer using Veeam as our backup system, we were wondering if there were any tools or apps to help us backup/move/restore master templates between environment.