Recovering a VM in a different vCenter, network setting is lost

[mdonovanpsh]

vCenter 6.7 U2, 2 vCenters, one at hot site, one at main location

VMware DR here is a fairly manual method:

SAN replication to copy VMs to the hot site

For testing, SAN snapshots are used on the hot site SAN

Snapshot LUNs are presented to the hot site vCenter

LUNs are added to hot site vCenter

Datastore is browsed, .vmx file is selected and added to inventory

The problem is when the VMs were added to the inventory the network setting is missing. For the test they could just look at the original VM and set it on the hot site copy, but in a real disaster with thousands of VMs and the original data center gone this would be impossible.

All of the port groups (vDS) are defined in both vCenters.

Is there something being missed that will allow the network setting to be set when the VM is added to the inventory?

Thanks for helping

Matt

[NathanosBlightc]

what is the type of port binding settings of dvPortGroups of your vDS?

[mdonovanpsh]

Static binding at data center and hot site

[NathanosBlightc]

Can you test your disaster recovery scenario with ephemeral port binding against the static port binding and give the result?