Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition

Replication process

The replication process will start automatically, at set intervals, without any user interaction. If the replication task is created for a VM for the first time, it will initially send an entire copy of the VM to the destination node. Once the initial transfer is done, then the replication process will only send new data that has changed incrementally.

Also, after the initial transfer, we are now fully ready with VM redundancy. In the event the node with the running VM goes down, we can simply turn on the replicated VM on the second node while we fix the issue on the primary node. This can significantly decrease the downtime for a small environment without shared storage. Depending on what replication interval has been ...