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Table Of Contents
- Administration Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Overview of Site Recovery Manager
- System Requirements
- Installing or Updating Site Recovery Manager
- Managing SRM
- Protected Site Configuration
- Recovery Site Configuration
- Failback
- Alerting and Monitoring
- Protected and Recovery Site Changes
- Preinstallation Checklist
- Failback Checklist
- Use the srm-config command to repair an SRM server connection
- Avoiding Replication of Paging Files and Other Transient Data
- Glossary
- Index
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Appendix D Avoiding Replication of Paging Files and Other Transient Data
5Copythetemplatedisktoatemplatefolderattherecoverysite.
Youmustcopythe .vmdkfileanditsflatcounterpart(forexample,pagedisk.vmdk
andpagedisk-flat.vmdk).
6Attheprotectedsite,foreachvirtualmachineinaprotectiongroup:
aUsethevmkfstoolscommandtocreateacloneofthetemplatediskin
a
nonreplicateddatastore.
bUsetheVIClienttoconnectthecloneddisktothevirtualmachine.
cPoweronthevirtualmachineandassignadrivelettertothecloneddisk.
dConfigurethevirtualmachinetocreateitspagingfileontheclonedvirtual
disk.
eShutdownandre‐startthevirtualmachineso
thatitwritesitspagingfileto
thenewlocation(ontheclonedvirtualdisk).
Youcandeletetheold,unusedpagingfilefromthesystemdisk.
fUsethevmkfstoolscommandtoclonethetemplateyoucopiedinStep 5toa
.vmdkfileonanonreplicateddatastoreattherecoverysite.
gUsetheVIClienttoviewtheprotectiongroupthatcontainsthevirtual
machine.
Becausethevirtualmachineusesanonreplicateddiskforitspagingfile,SRM
notifiesyouthatthevirtualmachineusesoneormoredevicesthatdonothave
filebackingsonareplicatedLUN.Itthenremoves
thevirtualmachinefrom
theprotectiongroupuntilyouresolvethisconfigurationproblem.
hIntheVIClient,usetheConfigureStorageforthisVMpagetoassignstorage
forthepagingfiledisktothe.vmdkfileyouclonedinStep f.
Afteryouconfigurethevirtualmachinetousethenonreplicated
diskatthe
protectedsite,SRMconsidersthevirtualmachine’sstoragetobeconfigured
andreturnsittotheprotectiongroup.
Afterthechangesyoumadeattheprotectedsitearereplicatedtotherecoverysite,you
canrunatestoftherecoveryplantoverifythattherecoveredvirtual
machinesare
usingthenonreplicatedpagingfile.