Duplicate UUID question

[pmalagese]

If I were to change the UUID on the destination replica vm would this break the replication?

[Vitaliy S.]

It should not break it, however the next replication job cycle the UUID would be changed back. Can you please tell me why do you need to do that?

[pmalagese]

I have server monitoring software that has an issue when discovering ESX server VM's. It doesn't handle duplicate UUIDs well.

[Vitaliy S.]

Do you use Veeam Availability Suite or just Veeam B&R? The reason I ask this is that we have Veeam ONE (part of VAS) for monitoring/reporting capabilities that does not have this problem.

[pmalagese]

We're just using Veeam B&R. We also monitor physical servers, devices, and applications.

[Vitaliy S.]

Ok, in this case I believe you should do the override for replicated VMs manually. Since they are powered off most of the time, then it should be ok to do that.

[pmalagese]

Override as in change the UUID in the VMX file? Then it would still revert back after the next replication, right?

[Vitaliy S.]

Yes, that's right.