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Live Failover – Does this create new Vmware Machin

Yonni K
October 1, 2019 01:27:24 PM

Live Failover – Does this create new Vmware Machine ID’s in the Vmware database? Customer has programs like backup that rely on Vmware Machine ID. Last time when customer did failover, Vmware ID’s changed when VM’s failed back. Some programs like backup had to be reconfigured since Vmware ID changed.

Aaron S
October 1, 2019 07:36:22 PM

Hello Yonni,

Yes when you do a Move, Failover Live or Failover test a new Vmware ID is created. I know backup software like Veeam rely on this ID and when the machine is failed over to the recovery side the backup jobs fail due to their reliance on that ID.

Yonni K
October 3, 2019 10:19:09 PM

Hi,

I wanted to add some more information regarding the preservation of a BIOS UUID of the protected VM.
Please have a look at the following documentation in section 5 –
http://s3.amazonaws.com/zertodownload_docs/Latest/Zerto%20Virtual%20Replication%20Zerto%20Virtual%20Manager%20%28ZVM%29%20-%20vSphere%20Online%20Help/index.html#page/AdministratorforZertoVirtualManager%2FAdvancedConfiguration_VC.14.05.html

To preserve the BIOS UUID of the protected VM after recovery operations, in the recovery ZVM Site Settings window, select For incoming replication, copy the BIOS UUID of the protected VM to the recovered VM.

Notes:

■Preserving of the BIOS UUID is not supported in Clone and Self-Replication recovery operations.

■Preserving of the BIOS UUID is not supported in Public Cloud.

■Cross replication is not supported.

Kind regard,

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