This question was originally posted on DCIM Support by Barry Patterson on 2019-02-28
Does DCE have a manual or standby solution for disaster recovery. We have multiple data centers supported by one StruxureWare physical appliance. Could a DCE VM be used as a failover solution for the physical appliance. Can a full backup from the physical appliance be restored to a DCE VM having similar resource allocations (MEM, CPU, Storage) but different MAC, IP and Hostname. Understood that similar licencing would need to be obtained for the DCE VM.
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This comment was originally posted on DCIM Support by Christopherus Laurentius on 2019-03-01
Not from DCE itself.
If you are going to VM route, perhaps consider leveraging on the HA/FT or DR solution from VM itself to maintain DCE's availability?
Do set the DCE's VM MAC address to be static, so it does not change when being moved around across hosts.
>>Can a full backup from the physical appliance be restored to a DCE VM having similar resource allocations (MEM, CPU, Storage) but different MAC, IP and Hostname.
Yes you can do so.
Do get the license key/passcodes of existing physical DCE and contact tech support with valid software support to have it reset so you can re-activate it against the DCE VM's mac address.
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This comment was originally posted on DCIM Support by spezialist on 2019-04-01
Dear Barry Patterson,
Tell us, please, did you solve your question or not?
With respect.
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