topic Re: VMware vSA virtual appliance data replication ? in StoreVirtual Storage

VMware vSA virtual appliance data replication ?

Server-Support — Sun, 07 Sep 2014 03:17:57 GMT

Hi all,

Does the HP VSA VM data can be replicated with the build in function to another ESXi host across two different data center ?

What are my options to perform data replication from one VMFS data store to another ?

Re: VMware vSA virtual appliance data replication ?

oikjn — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 13:15:39 GMT

There is no good reason to do that. Are you trying to run a single VSA appliance and back-door multi-site redundancy? Before worrying about multi-site redundancy, I would be screaming for single node redundancy and get mgt to get you the funding for a 2nd VSA license so you aren't running your SAN off the equivalent of a single HDD... you wouldn't let your local storage run without RAID would you? Why would you let your SAN do that? If you do have two+ VSA nodes, then you should get one more VSA node to run remote replication snapshots to.... sorry this all means $$$$, but if you want it at the SAN level then that is the only way you can do it... that or use other backup/replication methods like you would for any other HDD.

Re: VMware vSA virtual appliance data replication ?

CalvinZito — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 22:44:48 GMT

@albertwt - I just saw your question. Tell me a bit more about what you're trying to do. With HP VSA, you can have a stretched cluster with multiple nodes in each location. You can also download a full featured 60 day trial on hp.com to play with.