Hi folks,
I just have a few questions about the role of the VRA in vSphere Replication. Assume for a moment a typical deployment with 2 vCenters, each with its own VRA. Replication is all running from Site A to Site B (one-directional). Assume replications are busy cranking through an Initial Full Sync from Site A to Site B. Questions:
1) What happens to these jobs in the event that either VRA gets powered off? What happens when the VRAs are then powered back on?
2) What happens to these jobs if the Source VMs being replicated are vMotion'd to a different ESXi host in the middle of their Full Sync?
3) What happens to these jobs if either VRA is vMotion'd to a different ESXi host? (Specifically, the VRA at Site B, which I understand is receiving the data and sending to a specific ESXi host, which is then writing to the appropriate datastore?)
4) What happens if all but (1) of the ESXi hosts at Site B are put into Maintenance Mode and rebooted? (Assume the one last standing ESXi host has full write access to all datastores containing VR replicas, and the VRA is running on the last standing ESXi host.)
My assumption in all cases is that the Initial Full Sync keeps running, doesn't skip a beat, doesn't start over, and just works, but I'd really like to know if this is or is not the case for the above scenarios.
Thanks,
Bill
