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Gabrie1
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Attaching LUNs to the Disaster Recovery hosts

Hi

For a DR scenario, we will be replicating the LUNs of the production environment to the DR center. In this center there will be a number of ESX hosts and I'm not sure if you should already connect them to the replica LUNs (which will only be in Read-Only mode) or wait untill there is a disaster. Also, for testing purposes there will be a number of LUNs that will receive a SAN falshcopy of the replicated LUNs. Should I already connect those?

I'm aware of the DisallowSnapShutLUN option and the resignaturing of the LUNs.

Gabrie

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whynotq
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yes, SRM, when it arrives will do this for you in the mean time you may want to take a snapshot of the LUNs and allow them to be accessed just whilst you test. this way you avoid having to re-create the replicated LUNs.

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JeeWee
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Gabrie,

You might want to use the upcoming SRM for that. This automates all these steps for you.

Wil send you a personal e-mail.

MR-T
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Whenever I've conducted this type of DR setup I only present the LUNS to the DR ESX hosts during a disaster.

Then simply perform a rescan to pick them up.

Finally you need to register the virtual machines contained on these LUNS with the new hosts.

whynotq
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yes, SRM, when it arrives will do this for you in the mean time you may want to take a snapshot of the LUNs and allow them to be accessed just whilst you test. this way you avoid having to re-create the replicated LUNs.

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Gabrie1
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Thank you for the replies. SRM was on my which list Smiley Happy But I can't wait untill then. Gonna see what the storage guys think about the answers.

Gabrie

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