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FusionUser321
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Can I replicate a VM to a remote site incrementally?

Here's what I would like to do.

1/ Clone a VM to a remote site

2/ On a schedule (couple times a week) I would like to incrementally update the remote image from the live guest

I would prefer to leverage VMware vCenter to accomplish this without buying 3rd party tools.

Considerations:

-We are running ESX 3.5, 123630 or newer

-We are bandwidth sensitive

-I can shutdown the live guest if required

Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated.

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weinstein5
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What you propose is not possible - you can not incremently clone a vm - its all or nothing - you will need to a look at something like vDR or VCB - which will you to back up your vm -

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Check with Sunbelts Double-Take if that does what you need. For physical machines it allows a incremental and scheduled replication and DT can also be used with virtual machines.

Check page 1-13: http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Documents/double-take-user-guide.pdf


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FusionUser321
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What you propose is not possible - you can not incremently clone a vm - its all or nothing - you will need to a look at something like vDR or VCB - which will you to back up your vm -

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OK - perhaps I shouldn't have used the term clone. What I should have said was replicate. I haven't used vDR yet - I'll try and evaluate it today to see if it can do what I want.

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FusionUser321
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Check with Sunbelts Double-Take if that does what you need. For physical machines it allows a incremental and scheduled replication and DT can also be used with virtual machines.

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Budgets are tight this year - attempting to craft a solution with exisitng infrastructure without purchasing something new. (Though I am familir with double-take as I used it to mirror SQL data.)

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AntonVZhbankov
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Take a look at Veeam Backup & Replication. With VM Hardware 7 it can do incremental replication via Changed Block Tracking.

It's commercial 3rd party tool, but it worths time spent to evaluation.


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