Chris_Nodak

Thanks for responding Graeme. We have been testing by attempting to connect just one host from the DR site during this process, but it times out every time. I'm not sure where we go from here.

For some reason I wasn't being notified of replies, I'll have to check my settings. Thanks all for your suggestions. I should have provided more details. We don't have a storage device that supports NFS. I created an NFS share on a Windows server. It is mounted fine to our hosts in the production site. And the appvolumes data replicated to it from the production datastore. We've worked with our firewall provider to ensure everything is open and we can see the traffic across the SD WAN but it just times out. I am using NFS4. In doing some random testing I had created the same type of share in the DR site and managed to connect 6 of 7 hosts to that share, one timed out. Additional testing, I removed the datastore from one host then it couldn't connect again. Long story short it's probably something networking/firewall related but we're stumped.

I have been following this article to rebuild our DR site for our VDI environment and I'm running into challenges with the App Volumes component. It's recommended to set up an NFS share that then can be mounted at both sites and the data replicated across the WAN. However we cannot get the NFS volume in our production site to mount at the DR site. I've had Broadcom support look at both the server side and network side and they offer no ideas as to why it will timeout and not connect. My network manager is working with our SD WAN vendor thinking it could be that which is causing the problem as they identified an issue with the appliance in our DR site, but it is slow going waiting on a fix. What I want to ask is if anyone knows of another way to replicate App Volumes data between the sites without using an NFS share. Thanks in advance.