Does StruxureWare DCE have a disaster recovery solution

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This question was originally posted on DCIM Support by Barry Patterson on 2019-02-28

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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

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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

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Dear Barry Patterson,

Tell us, please, did you solve your question or not?

With respect.

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