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Can I select VSAN as my placeholder datastore with SRM?

Duncan Epping · Jun 13, 2016 ·

I received a question today about SRM, vSphere Replication and VSAN. The current documentation for SRM says the following:

Do not select as placeholder datastores any datastores that you use as the replication target datastore for vSphere Replication.

The question was, what about when using VSAN? As with VSAN as the source and destination datastore I usually only have 1 datastore. What do I select as my placeholder datastore then? Well with VSAN the situation is different. When using VSAN the placeholder datastore selected can be the VSAN datastore where the VMs are also replicated to. This is a gap in our current documentation, and we will make sure to get this updated asap.

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  1. Epi Karamalis says

    22 June, 2016 at 16:21

    Yep, documentation needs a bit of tidying up to clear any confusion.

    Later on, it seems to suggest no issues selecting the same datastore, other than potential confusion due to folder names
    https://pubs.vmware.com/srm-61/index.jsp#com.vmware.srm.admin.doc/GUID-CCF2E768-736E-4EAA-B3BE-50182635BC49.html

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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist in the Office of CTO of the Cloud Platform BU at VMware. He is a VCDX (# 007), the author of the "vSAN Deep Dive", the “vSphere Clustering Technical Deep Dive” series, and the host of the "Unexplored Territory" podcast.

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