Issue replica after I removed and re added host to vcenter

[BjornOKK]

Hello

I have a DR site that I am replicating my vm's to. After I had an issue with my vcenter server I removed one host from the vcenter then re added it again. But after this it seems that veeam see the vm's on this host as new machines. So I am getting this error message:

Initializing target session
Unable to replicate VM 'server01' to 'server01_replica': duplicate VM name on target

Is there any way I can fix this without deleting the replica and start new replicas from scratch? I really dont want to do that since it is very large vm's and its on a WAN link.

Thanks for any tips

Bjorn.

[Gostev]

Hi, basically what you did caused all VMs to get new unique IDs assigned by vCenter server, so replication job no longer "recognizes them". You would have to create the new replication job, however you can avoid full replication using replica mapping function. I am assuming here that you are using B&R v6. Thanks!

[BjornOKK]

Thanks for the quick reply and explanation

I am using v5. is this mapping function on v5, or do I need v6 for this?

[Gostev]

You need v6 to leverage replica mapping, but you can use v5 created replicas for mapping in v6.