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diegoazevedo
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Replication paused when a disk gets added or removed

Hi all!

I need to replicate a VM to a secondary DC. This VM is an actual virtual backup appliance, which by design, attaches / detaches disks from other VMs to itself for backing up data from those VMs. The issue with vSphere Replication is that the replication will pause and require manual intervention every time a replicated VM gets a disk added or removed.

Is there any way around it? Any advance setting which will tell vSphere Replication to perhaps warn you about the disks but not break replication altogether?

Using vSphere 5.5 U1 and vSphere Replication 5.5. Message generated on vCenter is: system has paused replication: Disk added to VM

Thanks!

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mvalkanov
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Hi,

All vSphere Replication releases so far automatically pause the replication once disk is added to the VM and require the user to explicitly include the disk in the replication or ignore it.

Unfortunately, there is no setting to change this behavior.

If the configure replication wizard allowed setting list of excluded disks, even if they are not currently present on the VM, something like: ignore SCSI 1:0, SCSI 1:1, IDE 0:1, would that work for you?

Regards,

Martin

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diegoazevedo
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Hi Martin,

Yes, it would certainly help! Any way we can have that done at all?

I also think that the replication wizard should have 2 tickboxes like:

(  ) Disks added to this VM will be marked for replication;

(  ) Generate an alert when a disk is added/removed from VM

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virtualg_uk
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I have created a feature request with VMware and pointed to this post. I'll update when I hear back.


Graham | User Moderator | https://virtualg.uk
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aventre
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Hi all

Any news on that? I've the same issue and updated to the newest vSphere Replication Appliance 8.2.0.2 and there is still no option to select harddisks using SCSI Adapter name for replication.

Or is there any other workaround for this case?

Thanks and regards!

Angelo

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