Maintained VM Properties when Recovering to a vCenter Server Site from a Protected AWS Site
The following conversions are done to a protected virtual machine when it is recovered in vSphere:
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The SCSI controller type is operating system dependent. |
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All disks are thin provisioned. |
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Recovered virtual machines use the VMware Virtual E1000 network adapter. |
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Operating systems will be either Windows 2012 (64-bit) or Linux Other (64-bit) |
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(Public cloud environments) Memory and CPU properties will be extracted from the instance type in Azure and AWS. |
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(Azure environments) In Azure VMs, each data disk has a Logical Unit Number (LUN) whereas in the recovered VMs there are no LUNs. |
The following tables display settings that are retained when recovering to a vCenter Server site from AWS:
Properties Extracted From Instance Size in AWS:
Settings |
Setting Retained? |
CPU Cores |
Yes |
Memory |
Yes |
Recovered VM Properties
Settings |
Setting Retained? |
HW Version |
Highest version supported by the hosting ESXi |
SCSI Controller Type |
Depends on the operating system.
Linux: LSI Logic Parallel
Windows: LSI Logic SAS |
Disks Location |
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Root device /dev/xvda --> SCSI 0:0 |
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/dev/xvdg/ --> SCSI 0:6 |
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Disk Type |
The default is thin provision, but configurable in the VPG screen. |
Boot Firmware |
BIOS. |
vNIC type |
E1000. |
VM IP |
Per NIC, according to the configuration in the VPG. |