Replication and different host hardware

[phileddies]

Hi,

I am considering purchasing Backup & Replication for use between my production and DR sites. Both sites run VMware, the production site is licensed for VMware Enterprise and the DR site is licensed for VMware Standard.

My production site uses HP blades and my DR site has different HP server hardware.

Will the difference in VMware licensing or hardware cause me any issues with replication?

Thanks
Phil

[Shestakov]

Hi Phil and welcome to the community!
If you replicate between AMD and Intel CPUs that may cause issues since the instruction set is different, but I guess in your case it`s going to be Intel to Intel so no worries.
Host licensing is also should not be a problem.
Thanks!

[pkelly_sts]

We migrated from HP AMD servers to HP Intel servers (and are still replicating from Intel to AMD now until we replace the AMD servers later this year). The only thing to bear in mind is when you spin up a replica on different architecture you'll likely need to reboot after first power-on so it switches drivers as appropriate. Other than that we haven't had an issue crossing architectures (so far!).

[Shestakov]

Thanks for the participation Paul, didn`t know cross-cpu architecture replication can work just fine.

[pkelly_sts]

Yeah, for me at least (obviously can't speak for everyone) all we get is the usual "found new hardware, please reboot" type dialog on first power-on. It's a bit of a pain if you're spinning up vLabs from replicas regularly but hardly unexpected given what we're doing.