Preventing migration of a virtual machine from affecting disaster recovery of replica

摘要

To prevent a user from initiating potentially dangerous virtual machine migrations, a storage migration engine is configured to be aware of replication properties for a source datastore and a destination datastore. The replication properties are obtained from a storage array configured to provide array-based replication. A recovery manager discovers the replication properties of the datastores stored in the storage array, and assigns custom tags to the datastores indicating the discovered replication properties. When storage migration of a virtual machine is requested, the storage migration engine performs or prevents the storage migration based on the assigned custom tags.

主权项

1. A method for performing storage migration of a virtual machine, the method comprising:
receiving a request to migrate a virtual machine from a source datastore to a destination datastore, wherein the source datastore and the destination datastore are stored in a first storage system configured to perform array-based replication with a corresponding second storage system; retrieving replication properties associated with the source datastore and the destination datastore from an inventory service; and responsive to determining that the source datastore and the destination datastore are in a same consistency group based on the retrieved replication properties, performing the requested storage migration.