View Composer pool DR

[q8_it]

Hi, we are planning on how to do disaster recovery for our vmware view environment.

We have an environment created with an automated/dedicated pool using view composer and with persistent disk on a separate Datastore.

Our idea was to have 2 "live" environment that will in some way be able to do disaster recovery of each other.

We will have a unique connection broker pool with 2 server per site and 2 vcenter server. Persistant disks will be replicated across the sites.

My idea was that is case of fault I can import persistent disk from the replicated datastore on the second site and recreate the desktop in a pool already defined in that DR site. The only problem is that doing it from the web gui will be a long job (being able to import/provision a single desktop at a time).

It's possible to import persistent disk and provision the desktop from those disks automatically with some scripting language or changing data into the composed/adam database?

Anyone have an idea on how to do it in a simple way?

Thanks

Francesco

[AndreTheGiant]

Pool can be rebuilded.

If you have storage replication, you can replicate the persistent disk.

Or do not use at all persistent disk and instead use a centralized profiles management, in this way you have only to replicate those files.

Andre

[q8_it]

I've done some tests in the past and it seems that if the OS Disks/Replica are not available it was not possible to refresh/recompose the desktop.

I will copy the persistent disks to the DR site that will also have his own Broker/vcenter/esx servers for a part of our users.

But to reconstruct the VM from persistent disks I've to reimport those disks that are on a different VC/ESX/Storage on the new DR pool.

At this moment I'm not able to do find how to do it with a script. Doing it from the web gui will be a really long job (you've to import and reattach every disk manually one at a time.

Anyone know a way to do this activities? Or what to change in ADAM/View Composer DB on the DR site?

[mittim12]

Check out page 38 of the intergration guide. There is  View composer maintenance task parameters that may help you out.

Edited to add link

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/view45_integration_guide.pdf

Message was edited by: mittim12

[fduranti]

I see it seems that there should be some command to do it but I'm not able to find it... anyone can help?

I see that this command should take the "-composertask attachUdd" but i cannot find the command to use...

I've searched everywhere I think...

Anyone can help me on this?

[fduranti]

Anyone has suggestions on this issue?