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To change the interval between Remote Site Down alarms, enter a new value in the
remoteSiteStatus.panicRepeatDelay field.
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To change the number of remote site status checks to try before declaring the check a failure, enter a
new value in the remoteSiteStatus.warningDelay field.
4 Click OK to save your changes and close the Advanced Settings window.
Avoiding Replication of Paging Files and Other Transient Data
While SRM allows you to replicate transient data such as Windows paging files or virtual machine swapfiles,
such data need not be replicated. Preventing replication of such data avoids unnecessary consumption of
network bandwidth.
In the default configuration, virtual machines that use replicated datastores have all of their storage replicated,
including swap and paging files for which replication is unnecessary. These files, even if replicated, are
overwritten when a recovered virtual machine is powered on. While it does no harm to place them on a
replicated datastore, doing so adds unnecessary load to your replication infrastructure.
You can configure protected virtual machines to use local (nonreplicated) storage for swapfiles, Windows
paging files, or both.
Specify a Nonreplicated Datastore for Swapfiles
Every virtual machine requires a swapfile, which is normally created in the same datastore as the other virtual
machine files. When you use SRM, this datastore is replicated. To prevent swapfiles from being replicated,
create them on a nonreplicated datastore.
If you are using a nonreplicated datastore for swapfiles, you must create a nonreplicated datastore for all
protected clusters at both the protected and recovery sites. For more information, see the vSphere
documentation.
Procedure
1 In the vSphere Client, right-click an ESX cluster and click Edit Settings.
2 In the Settings window for the cluster, click Swapfile Location and select Store the swapfile in the
datastore specified by the host, then click OK.
3 For each host in the cluster, select a nonreplicated datastore.
a Click the Configuration tab.
b On the Swapfile Location line, click Edit.
c In the Virtual Machine Swapfile Location window, select a nonreplicated datastore and click OK.
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