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<main> <article class="userContent"> <h2 data-id="summary"><strong>SUMMARY</strong></h2> <p>A procedure to avoid re-building all the replicas after an upgrade from ReliableDR 3.x to ReliableDR 4.x</p> <h2 data-id="issue"><strong>ISSUE</strong></h2> <p></p> <p>This article describes how to avoid re-building all the ReliableDR replicas after an upgrade to 4.x version. This process is manual and customer has to follow the exact sequence listed below for a successfully 4.x seeding.</p> <p>-Create the job in 4.x with the VMs concerned using the same hosts and datastores.</p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="seeding_step_1.png" src="https://phdreliabledr.zendesk.com/attachments/token/NXmU81ZzYjwBtMwCKkGZpYexS/?name=seeding_step_1.png" class="embedImage-img importedEmbed-img"></img></p> <p> </p> <p>-Once the 4.x job is finished, select the VMs within the job and select the <em><strong>Prepare VM for Backup</strong> </em>option for all of them.</p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="seeding_step_2.png" src="https://phdreliabledr.zendesk.com/attachments/token/kHFR0YCsQNfWmwWn4RzRyz9Vg/?name=seeding_step_2.png" class="embedImage-img importedEmbed-img"></img></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>-Run the replica job in 3.x version:</p> <p><img alt="seeding_step_3.png" src="https://phdreliabledr.zendesk.com/attachments/token/fDw4X7RqeyrxjbxU2WJyJ5Sw2/?name=seeding_step_3.png" class="embedImage-img importedEmbed-img"></img></p> <p> </p> <p>-Open vSphere console, go to Protected VM and copy VM's annotations. After that, go to replicated VM and paste there the just copied annotations.</p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="seeding_step_4.png" src="https://phdreliabledr.zendesk.com/attachments/token/2KeNqhP4VbPxVPlgG9RwSiUM4/?name=seeding_step_4.png" class="embedImage-img importedEmbed-img"></img></p> <p> </p> <p>-Go to ReliableDR 4.0 job, select the VM and chose the <em><strong>Map to an existing VM</strong></em> option.</p> <p><img alt="seeding_step_5.png" src="https://phdreliabledr.zendesk.com/attachments/token/Gasz4zQyjw714NJIWz2hUVBZa/?name=seeding_step_5.png" class="embedImage-img importedEmbed-img"></img></p> <p> </p> <p>-Now you can launch the ReliableDR 4.0 job, the replica will be incremental.</p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="seeding_step_6.png" src="https://phdreliabledr.zendesk.com/attachments/token/0s11vo78BsLcHyx6hDGMqLrOD/?name=seeding_step_6.png" class="embedImage-img importedEmbed-img"></img></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </article> </main>