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Pcparamedix
Enthusiast
Enthusiast

Deploy templates across datacenters.

I have 1 VC server controlling 2 datacenters. Call them datacenter1 and datacenter2.

If I have some templates stored in datacenter1 can I create a new machine from a template and deploy it to datacenter2.

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VirtualNoitall
Virtuoso
Virtuoso

Hello,

No, you can't deploy templates across datacenters. You can export them from one into the other though. Not great but saves creating them from scratch.

JohnGibson
Hot Shot
Hot Shot

No i'm afraid you can't there are too many design limits with deploying anything more than one DC in your infrastructure, you can't easily deploy templates, move hosts or VMs.

I went through this in depth with VC product management, they appreciated the comments, but I've not seen any progress to get this fixed. It is a problem for small and large infrastructures.

There are some reasons to deploy multiple Data Centers, mainly around using replicated SAN disk, but ive stuck with a single Data Center object for my infrastructure.