Hi folks,
I have the following LAB setup, 2 x vCenter 6.0.0(Build 3634793) with SRM 6.1(build 3884620) and vSphere replication 6.1.1 (Build 3849281) configured.
I have done the following in one site:
- Powered off the replication appliance
- Cloned the powered off replication appliance
- renamed the original and renamed the clone to the original
- Powered up the clone and reapplied the SSO and SQL DB user credentials from the console, the VRMS service started up successfully.
I could then use vReplication and SRM without any noticeable issues, I successfully did a planned failover and reprotect, no issues.
My question is would thus, would this be a supported means to backup your recovery site replication appliance if you did not have a backup strategy in place to backup the appliance?
TIA,
Craig