Journal Datastore

  • Irene L
    September 18, 2019 11:45:11 PM

    Browsing the files located on the datastores that we use as Journal locations for our protected/critical VMs (under “ZeRTO volumes” folder), I noticed that on one of the Journal locations, the “…_log_volume.vmdk” virtual disks have the latest modified dates 9/9/2019 and other virtual disks have modified dates 2/5/2019 and earlier.  There are no VMDK files with modified dates between 2/5/2019 and 9/8/2019 on the “ZeRTO volumes” folder of this datastore.  On another Journal location, the latest modified date as of yesterday is 9/8/2019 but there are no VMDKs with modified dates between 5/27/2019 and 6/14/2019…nor between 6/14/2019 and 9/5/2019. Is this something that we should be concerned about?  Note: For the VPGs that use these Journal locations, we set the Journal History to 1 day and the Target RPO Alert to 5m.

    Bar A
    September 19, 2019 05:51:06 AM

    Hello,

    The modified dates for VMDK files in the datastore are not necessarily indicative of the last time it was written to, but the last time it was changed from a Hypervisor level perspective (change in provisioning, change in size, etc). The modified date is not a reliable indicator of whether a journal file is still in use.

    To summarize, you should not be concerned about the last time your “log_volumes.vmdk” has been modified.

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