Managing Protection When Moving a Host to a Different Cluster
When a host machine has to be moved to another cluster:
For a host machine on the protected site – Remove affinity rules for protected virtual machines on the host that is going to be moved and vMotion these machines to any other host in the cluster with a VRA installed. Shut down the VRA before moving the host.
For a host machine on the recovery site – Shut down the VRA and place the host in VMware maintenance mode. After shutting down the VRA VPGs with virtual machines being recovered to the VRA will enter an error state. Move the host to the new cluster, exit maintenance mode and power on the VRA. The VPGs in an error state will enter a bitmap sync and then resume a Meeting SLA status.
Note: Any VPGs that were defined with a recovery resource pool in the original cluster must be edited to change the default and virtual machine specific target host settings for the new cluster, even when the new cluster has a resource pool that is displayed in the VPG definitions.