Modifying Protected Virtual Machine Volumes
Adding or deleting volumes for a virtual machine protected in a VPG, are automatically reflected in the volumes used for the mirror virtual machine, managed by the VRA in the recovery site.
Deleting a volume in any virtual machine protected in a VPG, causes the journal to be reset as all the checkpoints in the journal are removed.
Adding a volume in any virtual machine protected in a VPG, causes a new checkpoint to be added, to mark the action.
When adding a volume to the virtual machine the total number of disks cannot exceed 60 disks, which can be a combination of IDE and SCSI disks, where:
■ Each virtual machine can have up to 2 IDE controllers.
■ Each IDE controller can have a maximum of 4 IDE disks, and up to 4 SCSI controllers.
■ The IDE disks and SCSI controllers can each have a maximum of 15 disks, so that the total of IDE and SCSI disks does not exceed 60 disks.
When the recovery site is VMware vSphere, any IDE disks are converted to SCSI disks.
Changing the defined size of a journal of a virtual machine in a VPG is automatically reflected in the VRA in the recovery site.
When protecting to AWS, if you add a volume to the virtual machine the total number of disks cannot exceed 12, including the boot disk.