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khaliqamar
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Enthusiast
‎03-25-2014 07:37 AM

vc manual recovery

I would like to discuss about my manual recovery plan for VC.

To achieve it I will create a new VM server and will not install VC on it.

So when I need a recovery I can install virtual center and point the database during the installation of virtual center (when installer asked about the database).

Any one see any problem in this manual recovery solution.

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weinstein5
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‎03-25-2014 08:25 AM

That will work -

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khaliqamar
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‎03-25-2014 08:47 AM

thanks weinstein5

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Jazzer
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‎03-25-2014 09:08 AM

Sure you can do that.  Would this VM be up and running all the time?  If you have a template already, you could have a new VM up in what 15-20 mins?  Install vCenter, connect the database and hosts and you're up in an hour? 

Or was all of this implied?

Thanks,

Jay

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Borja_Mari
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Virtuoso
‎03-25-2014 12:19 PM

Hello,

maybe checking this vmware's kb will be helpful:

VMware KB: Migrating vCenter Server to a different host machine

VMware KB: Moving the VMware vCenter Server 4.x/5.x SQL database/

Best regards,

Pablo

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khaliqamar
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‎03-26-2014 01:43 AM

Hi Jay, I will deploy a VM and keep it down for the bad time and once I need it i can just install the virtual center and point my DB to the original DB.

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