Guest OS is Windows 2012 SQL 2014 network adapter is Vmxnet3 Tom Cass Network Administrator Van Eerden FoodService 616-475-0900 x292
From: listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Sean Martin Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2016 11:25 AM To: ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] VMware San replication advise I've always relied on the replication/DR capabilities included with apps like SQL and Exchange vs. SAN based replication solutions. With that said, I've never encountered network interruption associated with taken vSphere snapshots. What OS are you running on the SQL server and which network adapter are you using? - Sean On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 7:01 AM, Tom Cass <t...@vaneerden.com<mailto:t...@vaneerden.com>> wrote: Need some design advice, We have recently started virtualization of our physical servers for the express purpose of reducing RPO RTO. So we have a Nimble SAN doing replication to a DR Nimble San. A VMware cluster at each end. The replication is uses a 1GB link. When we do synchronized snapshots of Nimble volumes which triggers a VMware snapshot which triggers the VSS writers in the appropriate guests. The snapshot succeeds and replicates But … If the guest is running MSSQL, most of the client PCs running Dynamics Accounting experience connection problems, causing errors and a restart of the client app. When pinging the virtual server during a snapshot at least 3 pings are lost. VMWare says this is normal. Is anybody out there running MSSQL on a virtual server where the SAN volumes are being replicated? Tom Cass Network Administrator Van Eerden FoodService 616-475-0900 x292<tel:616-475-0900%C2%A0%C2%A0%20x292>
