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7 At the recovery site, use the vmkfstools command to create a clone of the copied disk.
Create one clone
for every placeholder virtual machine, but do not attach any clones to a virtual machine.
The clones are assigned as part of the protection configuration process and are attached during recovery.
8 At the protected site, configure each protected virtual machine.
a Use the vmkfstools command to clone the disk.
Create the clone on a nonreplicated datastore at the protected site, and then copy it to a nonreplicated
datastore at the recovery site with the original .vmdk file.
b Connect the cloned disk to the virtual machine, and then power on the virtual machine and assign a
drive to the cloned disk.
c Configure the virtual machine to create its paging file on the cloned disk.
d Power off and then power or the virtual machine so that it writes its paging file to the new location
on the cloned disk.
At this point, the protected virtual machine is writing its paging file to a disk on a nonreplicated
datastore at the protected site. Until you specify a recovery site location for this disk, the virtual
machine does not have a valid protection configuration.
e Assign recovery site storage for the paging file disk to one of the clones that you copied from the
protected site.
See “Configure Protection for a Virtual Machine or Template,” on page 57.
Initially, the paging file disk has a Recovery Location that is Not Configured. Click Browse, and then
browse to the cloned vmdk file at the recovery site.
After you have configured the virtual machine to use the nonreplicated disk at the recovery site, SRM considers
the virtual machine’s storage properly configured and returns it to the protection group.
What to do next
After the changes at the protected site are replicated to the recovery site, you can test the recovery plan to verify
that the recovered virtual machines are using the nonreplicated paging file.
After you reconfigure a virtual machine to use a paging file disk, you can delete the old, unused paging file
from its system disk.
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