Instant restore from Hyper-V to VMware over the WAN

[unsichtbarre]

I am working on a situation where the Hyper-V backups are at one location and the VMware Hosts are at another location.

Instant restore and then sVmotion over the WAN is proving to be far too slow.

I am considering Instant Restore at the location where the backup files are and then replication from the instant restore to the target over the WAN?

Question is, should I sVmotion IR to prod storage before replication, or replicate right off of the IR on repo?

THX,
-JB

[david.domask]

Hi John,

> Question is, should I sVmotion IR to prod storage before replication, or replicate right off of the IR on repo?

Migrate to production first will likely produce better results. As I see it, without migrate to production first, the situation is still the same: Instant Recovery + copy over WAN, just the instant recovery process is isolated to one site.

Do you have space for backup copies at the VMware location? I think the most ideal solution would be to do backup copies to the VMware location and then initiate restores from those backup copies -- with backup copy seeding, link speed should not be as significant of a factor, so if the space is available consider this option.