Can a vm have disk on different SAN's

[pauljawood]

Hi,

I have a situation that a vmdk's are located on different san's (so different SRA's would be needed to connect to each part of a VM). I'm trying to find out if SRM would work for these vm's or would the vmdk's need to be moved to the same SAN.

For instance:

C: located on IBM storage (IBM SRA)

😧 located on EMC (EMC SRA)

Odd situation but one I find myself in.

[idle-jam]

it has to be moved on the same SAN as during the failover or testing, it's using the SRA to remount the VM on the storage, and i have not seen of executing two SRA at the same time.  why not relocate and realign the disk using storage vmotion?

[pauljawood]

The issue is that every current virtual machine (1000+) have the disk split over different LUNs which could be on different backend storage. I just need to go back with a clear answer if it is possible to recover a vm that has this disk configuration and SRM can use multiple SRA's at the same time.

[mal_michael · Accepted solution]

Hi,

SRM cannot protect VMs that spread multiple arrays.

Michael.