Modifying Protected Virtual Machine Volumes

The following topics are described in this section:

Changing the Recovery Datastore for a Protected Virtual Machine
Modifying a Protected RDM Volume

 

Adding or deleting volumes for a virtual machine protected in a VPG, is 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 an 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 15 disks per SCSI controller and up to 4 SCSI controllers.

Resizing non-RDM volumes of 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.

Note: If the protected volume is associated with an RDM as a target for replication, the RDM will need to be resized manually, as described in Modifying a Protected RDM Volume.

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 for Linux machines and 22 for Windows machines, including the boot disk.

 

See also:

Copy VPG Settings
Editing a VPG
Adding Virtual Machines to a VPG - Overview
Removing Virtual Machines from a VPG
Removing Virtual Machines from a vCD vApp
Removing Protected Virtual Machines from the Hypervisor Inventory
Pausing and Resuming the Protection of a VPG
Forcing the Synchronization of a VPG
Handling a VPG in an Error State
Deleting a VPG
Ensuring Application Consistency – Checkpoints
Running Scripts Before or After Recovering a VPG
Exporting and Importing VPG Definitions
VPG Statuses and Synchronization Triggers
Managing Protection When the Recovery Datastore Will Be Unavailable (Datastore Maintenance)