I have two sites, Primary and DR. I have a cluster on the primary site which consists of 2 ESX hosts. An 2-node application cluster is created consisting of VM from each of these ESX hosts. The VM are non-migrateable. The datastore for each of the ESX is local and same on the DR setup. I have replication setup of the VM cluster to a DR cluster using vSphere replication. I have created a protection group and recovery plan. When I create the protection group and add the VM it selects one of the ESX host on the DR site as the recovery host, whereas I require that the VM's need to be specifically recovered on a certain ESX host on the DR setup.
Currently I need to migrate the placeholder VM's that get created on the DR site to their respective ESX host before I invoke the DR plan. Otherwise when the recovery plan is execute it wont have access to the the vmx file. Is there a better way of doing this?
TIA,
Sudhir