I have a RHEL VM and I am running the EPIC EMR software. I am wanting to clone the Production data to another VM to use as my Support environment. I currently have 8 RDM's in a protection groups that I snap and copy to another set of RDM's to use for those support environment. We are needing to convert these volumes over to VVOL's. What would be the new steps for VVOLS. I currently use copy_volume to copy the snaps. Thanks for any help
Hey Elmer - thanks for reaching out! The volumes you want to convert to Vvol's are the PROD and SUP volumes or the snapped data from RDM's to Vvol's?
I'm sure you're aware Epic has some opinions on the use of Vvol's and we've done some testing with Broadcom using GENIO and saw no real degradation of performance. For Epic, it's more around the mechanics of using them vs RDM's which are pretty straight forward.
Based on your response, we'll prolly want to bring in one of our VMware SME's to assist with the correct process.
Hey Elmer,
Hope you are doing well. The operation will likely be similar to your current workflow. vVol volumes are raw mappings to underlying LUN, each vVol disk is a LUN on the backend array. So with code, you could retrieve information of the vVol identifier of the prod vDisk and do a copy of that LUN and overwrite to a development vdisk. That is if you have development vm's that need a refresh of that data.
I am currently using the REST 1 API from a Python script and from what I can tell it does not support VVOLS. i am trying to look at using the REST 2 API. It is my first time setting up Oauth2 and having issue logging into the system with my Python script. Open for any advice!!
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