Hi,
How do you guys handle the initial seeding of data?
Our situation is this:
We have our primary SAN and ESXi-infrastructure at site A. Also at site A we have a spare SAN. We want to copy (seed) all the important VMs to the spare SAN and afterworths drive it to site B for ongoing replication.
My question is, how do we get the initial seed data on the spare SAN the easiest way? I've tried copying, but that requires the source VMs to be powered off, which is a no-go. If I do a clone, I will manually have to remove the extra copy (clone) from the servers afterworths (but not deleting the data) and even then, I'm not sure a clone keeps the same disk UUID.
So it seems to me however I do this, it involves a lot of manual work. Can anyone think of a better way? The manual is not very specific on this subject.
Thanks,
Rasmus