Hi have a prod vm is replicated with vSphere replication, with a Test recovery.
but now the sync between the primary and secondary is stopped.
now if i remove the server , by remove replication, what will happen to the machine on the DR site?
will it remove the server from the DR site , or the server is running and only the replication will be removed?
Hi,
If you unconfigure the replication, VR will automatically revert the test image at the DR site and you will lose the test VM.
If you like, you can clone the test VM before unconfiguring the replication.
Regards,
Martin
but here, i am not doing the cleanup, i want to click on remove replication button beside pause replication can be seen under VR tab.
are you using SRM to do the test recovery or is the vSphere Replication (VR) standalone?
if you are not using SRM when you perform a recovery operation with VR you've basically failed over the VM...it is not a test. In the web based client the only vc action available should be"Stop Replication" in web client. Now you to run that and then if you wish to failback you need to reconfigure replication on the newly recovered VM and point it back at the original source site. of course as the source site is probably ok you can of course point the config back at the original disks and use those as "seeds" for the failback.
it is SRM with Vsphere replcaition. I did a failover test and i want that server to be present at the DR site, and I paused the replcaition. now if i do remvoe replcaition, it will remove the server on DR or it will only remove the replcaition and leave the server on the DR.?
during a testfailover with VR we basically attach a redo log disk(s) of the current base disk in a new sub folder in the target datastore, i guess this is VR's version of a snapshot that the array based SRA's initiate on the lun if you want to think of it like that.
when you end the test we simply power off the VM, remove the subfolder (and redo disk) and we're done. you can now run another test if needed and at no point was replication interrupted. All other UI actions pause/remove replication do NOT relate to the test VM image they relate to the actual protected VM. If you are saying you want to run a test failover but then split off a copy of the VM to keep it at the DR site BUT also keep the original replication in place then during the test failover once the VM's are powered on in "test" mode you will need to make a clone of them as Martin suggested. if you end the test and hit "remove replication" it will unconfigure replication and then delete the disks that exist at the recovery site for that VM.
as a side note the following blog explains the difference during normal operation for using "pause" versus "stop" or "remove" replication:
Stop vs Pause with vSphere Replication | VMware vSphere Blog - VMware Blogs
