replication without vCenter

[geraldb]

Hi guys,

i've just a short (noobish) question ... but i want to get sure ..
we have to put out 3 esxi servers from the vCenter cluster .they will get standalone machines for a periode of time.

will the veeam replication also work from standalone to standalone esxi server ?
or is there something we should pay attention ? (we are using veeam 6.5, last build)

thx

[foggy]

How have you added VMs into the jobs - via vCenter or via ESXi hosts? Replication jobs will continue working in the second case, however, in case of adding VMs via vCenter, you will need to re-add VMs into jobs (which will cause full VM data to be re-read during next job run).

[tdewin]

Guess it won't be the case in your case but remember you can't replicate from or to unlicensed VMware ESXi host (not Veeam licensing but really VMware licensing). This is because VMware will close the API thus we can not talk to the hosts.

[geraldb]

@foggy - we will have to re-add them .. but that should be not the problem

@tdewin - we use the VMware vSphere Essentials Kit license (esxi 5.0) .... but we should be able to assign the licenses to the esxi-servers without the vCenter-Server or ?

[dellock6]

If you look at licensed hosts, they are licensed one by one even when there is vCenter in between, in fact you see all the ESXi dns names. So I think licenses will be preserved even when removing vCenter. otherwise, you can quickly revoke licenses to all ESXi servers and Veeam will re-assign licenses at the first job execution.

Luca.