Is it possible to do an extra verification of a replica state when the original VM is powered off?
I know in theory it should be enough to run the replication job after the VM has been powered off, but I ran into an issue today where the replica VM did not appear to be in perfect sync with the original.
Some history:
First the VM(Win2008 & MSSQL2008) was replicated live with application aware processing and CBT.
Then it was powered off and the replication job was run once again. This time it failed on disk 2 with this error:
18.04.2013 01:44:00 :: Error: Client error: Soap fault. A specified parameter was not correct.
Unable to retrieve next block transmission command. Number of already processed blocks: [7129].
No biggie I thought and selected Retry and it went successful on that try.
All green so I failed over to the replica VM (We're moving from one datacenter to another)
The replica VM booted, but after a while we discovered that a couple of the MSSQL databases were corrupt.
We've restored the databases so everything is up and running again. On the original VM I disconnected the Network card and booted it. All databases are fine, no errors.
So I'm scratching my head here about what has happened...
What I wish for is some way to do an extra verification between the original VM and the replica VM while they're both powered off. Have anyone done that? If so, please share
