Hello, I'm attempting to use Elastic Disaster Recovery to restore on premise Nutanix AHV VM with one 500GB drive. I have the VM fully replicated and can successfully initiate a drill.
When initiating a recovery drill with the default launch template here's what happens:
- Conversion + Successful snapshot
- Recovery instance launched with only one 1GB volume called "AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Base Snapshot"
- Recovery instance is stopped, and then the 500GB drive gets attached, the 1 GB volume gets removed, but cannot be started up again.
When initiating a recovery drill after editing the template to include an ubuntu ami with a root volume of 8GB:
- Conversion + Successful snapshot
- Recovery instance launched with the 8GB root volume
- Recovery instance is stopped, and then the 500GB gets attached and the 8GB volume removed, but cannot be started up again.
The DRS documentation says Nutanix VMs are supported here - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/drs/latest/userguide/drs-support-Nutanix.html
The VM is running a supported version of Linux and meets the prerequisites outlined here - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/drs/latest/userguide/installation-requiremets.html
Do I need to take any extra/special steps to successfully launch a recovery instance since I'm replicating a Nutanix VM and not a traditional server? Any help here is appreciated, thanks.
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The only discrepancy I can see is with this line - "Machines that boot off a disk configured with GPT partitioning need to have the package 'grub2-pc-modules' installed". I believe Nutanix VMs use GPT partitioning (but am not sure). The OS I'm trying to replicate (Ubuntu 20.04) has 'grub-pc', 'grub-pc-bin', 'grub2-common', but no 'grub2-pc-modules'. I've tried to install this module with apt, but it doesn't seem to exist for Ubuntu https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2.