The storage policy is applied to the replica disks at the target site at the time you first configure a replication. During the vSphere Replication Management Server recovery process, it is applied to the virtual machine and its disks.
If the target datastore is
vSAN, you can reconfigure a replication with a new storage policy. The replica base disks are resynced with the new storage policy.
Note: If the target datastore is
vSAN, the replica child disks are not resynced with the new storage policy.
If the target datastore is not vSAN and you reconfigure a replication to assign a new storage policy to replicated virtual disks, it is not immediately reflected to the replica disks at the target site. The storage policy is applied only after a recovery process.
Change the Storage Policy
You can change the storage policy of replica disks to the target site to a non-vSAN datastore.
Procedure
- Recover the virtual machines with the reconfigured replication.
- To change the storage policy of the recovered virtual machines to the new policy, use the vSphere Client.
- Unregister the recovered virtual machines from the vCenter Server inventory.
- Configure the replication again by using the new storage policy and seeds.