Dear All,
Does anyone have experience in replacing secondary storage?
We need to replace current sec storage(with a new one) as it will soon be end
of support.
We are considering the process as follow.
1.) Register new secstore.
2.) Make new template to be created in new secstore.
3.) Make new s
Hello Thura,
I have done this earlier on as well. Steps which I have followed-
1- Create a new secondary storage-
2- Mount this secondary storage at any host. ( mount -t nfs
x.x.x.x/x:/ / ), make sure that your
older secondary storage is also mounted.
3- Stop all running Management Servers an
Hi Vivek,
Appreciate sharing your steps.
I understand that ur procedure is replacing secstorage at one stroke.
The copy process will take a very long time(about 1 month) in our environment
for tens of TB.
What we would like to achieve is something like below:
First, to make the system create new
Hi Thura,
at the beginning of the year, we also faces this challenge.
Eventually we used the “one stroke” method which Vivek has described.
Since we have about 80TB of sec storage it was not option to copy the data
while the management servers are down.
Thankfully our storage system has a built-i
Hi Christian,
Appreciate your sharing.
So the conclusion is there is no way to achieve the below and we have to resort
to "one stroke replace".
-
First, to make the system create new template and snapshot only on new
secstorage
while keeping old secstorage for current sn
