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vCenter Datastore Cluster for Journal Volumes?
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We are protecting 110 VMs across 10 hosts. Currently, we have about 150 journal volumes located on a dedicated datastore. I’m planning on bringing up a dedicated Datastore Cluster for the journal volumes, so I can spread out the I/O between 8-10 datastores. Just wondering if there’s any potential issues with this solution.
Thanks.
Hello Dylan,
You can change the location of the Journal’s datastore from the “Edit VPG” Wizard.
Replication tab > VM Settings > Journal’s datastore.
That should not cause any issues, within the time frame the svMotion task is taking place in the hypervisor you will be limited to perform recovery operations.
Although I appreciate the response, that’s not what I asked. I know how to move the journals, and that you can svMotion them without any problem. My questions are:
Hello Dylan,
Sorry for not getting the question on point.
There are no issues with using a vSphere datastore cluster for journal volume location.
I assume there are some customers who use that configuration, as for recommendation that depends on your administration preferences and needs.
We have 2 sites each with a ZVM and 1 ZCM to allocate compute resources from vCenter. I am NOT able to use the ZCM to add resources from ZCM to a ZORG, why?? And yes, i rescanned the ESXi hosts for new storage.
thanks
Let me rephrase that, I am not able to see the data store clusters in the ZCM to allocate to a ZORG, why?
Thanks