Prerequisites for configuring VMware virtual machines for recovery using 3rd party replication technology
Before you run the wizard to configure disaster recovery protection for a resiliency group of VMware virtual machines, ensure that you have met the following prerequisites for the virtualization environment:
The vCenter and ESX servers for the virtual machines must be added to Resiliency Platform at the production and recovery data center.
VMware Tools must be installed on the virtual machines.
Ensure that all the ESXi servers of the cluster belong to the same VMware data center.
If you add new disks, ensure that they are visible from the guest operating system.
If a virtual machine has more than one ethernet adapter, then all of them should have either static IP configuration or DHCP IP configuration. A mix of static and DHCP IP configuration is not supported on the same virtual machine.
This is required if you want to do IP customization.
All the virtual disks must be connected to the virtual SCSI controllers. Other controller types are not supported.
The replicated storage must be provisioned to the ESX servers at each data center.
Ensure that any file or device is not mounted on the virtual CD drive of the virtual machine.
Ensure that the LUNs on the ESX server at the recovery data center are in detached state, and no data stores are mounted at the target mount points.
Ensure that the VMware hardware version of the protected virtual machines is compatible with the ESXi server versions on both the data centers. For more information refer to VMware KB article.
For additional prerequisites and configuration information see:
See Configuring VMware virtual machines for disaster recovery using EMC SRDF replication.
See Configuring VMware virtual machines for disaster recovery using NetApp SnapMirror.
See Configuring VMware virtual machines for disaster recovery using EMC RecoverPoint replication.
See Configuring VMware virtual machines for disaster recovery using Hitachi True Copy replication.
See Configuring VMware virtual machines for disaster recovery using HPE 3PAR Remote Copy replication.
See Configuring VMware virtual machines for disaster recovery using IBM SVC Global Mirror replication.