mujzeptu wrote:
Yeah, we have about 75 VMs spread across ~40 datastores. It just seems inconsistent and unreliable.
I am curious on no more than 8 vms per datastore? What kind of issues will you begin to have?
We were told if you have more than 8 VMs per datastore RMV software might fail to quiesce properly (via VMware tools), thus you will end up with not consistent snapshot.
We were looking to use it for our DR purposes but quickly dismissed this idea.
Page 27 HP 3PAR Management Plug-In and Recovery Manager 2.5.0 for VMware vSphere VI Client User's Guide:
Quote:
In order to maintain a VM consistent Virtual Copy, a VMFS snapshot will be created before creating
an HP 3PAR Virtual Copy and the VMFS copy will be deleted when the HP 3PAR Virtual Copy is
created. HP 3PAR Virtual Copies and VMFS snapshots cannot coexist. HP 3PAR Virtual Copy
creation in VM, Datastore, or Remote Copy will fail if there are preexisting VMFS snapshots for
the VM.
Additional licenses required for basic functionality:
Quote:
The HP 3PAR Virtual Lock license is required for setting retention policies in Virtual Copy
creation. RMV will check for an existing HP 3PAR Virtual Lock license on the Storage System
when a Virtual Copy is created with retention. However, it is not mandatory to have a Virtual
Lock license.
Everything has to be scheduled under one account, and if your have multiple people managing VMware infrastructure it becomes a nightmare to manage.