I have a hyper-v VM. I want to do an initial replication to another host in the same rack. both hosts have 1GB local connections. The process of initial replication was already started by someone else but failed, after the replica server appears to have run out of disk space.
Both primary and replica servers have identical disk sizes , for the physical drives, yet the replica runs out of space.
I started by removing any TMP files from the replica, which freed up 350 GB of space, and makes the primary and replica servers similar.
I am wondering if I should delete the replica server and files, and start again, as the process was started by someone else.
what are the storage requirements for replication. I saw one amateur blog saying you need "double the size of VHDs at the primary folder." is this true? I am struggling to find reliable sources.
This is a large primary VM, with VHDs as follows:
disk 1, 88.41GB differencing, 2.63GB differencing, 154GB dynamic VHD
disk 2, 70.39GB differencing, 74MB differencing, 1TB fixed VHD
is it the case that the checkpoints do not get replicated?
what space would I need on source and destination to replicate this VM?
in each case there is a 1.63 TB physical drive, on primary and replica
