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==== UPDATE ====

OK - we got it to work today, but it seems very slow. It took 14 minutes to run the recovery plan test for 1 VM.

All it had to do was make a flash copy of the replicated 50GB LUN, and set up the VM and bring it up. It seems like this should be a lot quicker. Shouldn't the flash copy be pretty much instantaneous? The VM is a small XP one with a thin provisioned 10GB disk - using 4GB at the moment. Nothing is changing on it - so there is nothing replicating on the LUN.

Here is what I set up for the SRA

sra config.jpg

Also I got these settings from vfovermars on the other discussion ( http://communities.vmware.com/message/2232055#2232055 )

settings.jpg

I had been using 1,3,1800,2. I'm sure we gave it this much time yesterday before we cancelled - so perhaps the "true" for space efficient mode helped, and perhaps the resignatureFailureRetryCount (from 1 to 2) helped.

We have a call logged with IBM, so hopefully will find out if this is how long it should take to do a simple test failover. Then of course we have to try it on bigger LUNs with "real" VMs.

Thanks for all your help (everyone) so far - I will keep you notified of whay IBM say.

rgds, John B
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