Hi Everyone
I'm working for a company which has several small offices. These small office requires small virtualized solution. To reduce cost, I'm wondering if we can eliminate the backup locally by enabling Vmware Replication Manager between the local site and our main Data Center. I would like to perform the backup of the vmdk files directly in the IDC using EMC AVAMAR. This solution can't work without using PowerCLI and I would like to have feedback from PowerCLI Expert.
The replica of the vmdk files in the main Data Center won't be registered in VCenter and EMC Avamar won't be able to perform image level backup of the VM guests. I'm wondering if this algorithm below will work and if it's possible to use Power CLI to perform these steps :
1) Disable Replication Manager
2) Register the VM guest to VCenter
3) Backup these VM guests Using EMC Avamar
4) Remove the VM Guest from Inventory in VCenter
5) re-enable Replication Manager
I appreciate any feedback
JFN