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Table 1‑2. Compatibility of vSphere Replication with Other vSphere Features (Continued)
vSphere Feature
Compatible with
vSphere Replication Description
vSphere Fault
Tolerance
No vSphere Replication cannot replicate virtual machines that have fault
tolerance enabled. You cannot protect the vSphere Replication appliance
itself with FT.
vSphere DRS Yes Replication continues at the defined RPO after resource redistribution is
finished.
vSphere Storage
DRS
Yes You can move the disk files of a replicated virtual machine on the source
site using Storage DRS with no impact on the ongoing replication.
VMware Virtual
SAN datastore
Experimental You can use VMware Virtual SAN datastores as a target datastore when
configuring replications. See “Using vSphere Replication with Virtual
SAN Storage,” on page 16.
NOTE vSphere 5.5 includes Virtual SAN as an experimental feature. You
can perform testing with Virtual SAN, but it is not supported for use in a
production environment. See the release notes for this release for
information about how to enable Virtual SAN.
vSphere
Distributed
Power
Management
Yes vSphere Replication coexists with DPM on the source site.
vSphere Replication does not perform any special DPM handling on the
source site. Disable DPM on the target site to allow enough hosts as
replication targets.
VMware vSphere
Flash Read Cache
Yes You can replicate virtual machines that contain disks that use VMware
vSphere Flash Read Cache storage. Since the host to which a virtual
machine recovers might not be configured for Flash Read Cache,
vSphere Replication disables Flash Read Cache on disks when it starts
the virtual machines on the target site. After the recovery, you can
migrate the virtual machine to a host with Flash Read Cache storage and
restore the original Flash Read Cache setting on the virtual machine.
vCloud APIs Not applicable No interaction with vSphere Replication.
vCenter
Chargeback
Not applicable No interaction with vSphere Replication
VMware Data
Recovery
Not applicable No interaction with vSphere Replication.
Using vSphere Replication with Virtual SAN Storage
You can use VMware Virtual SAN datastores as a target datastore when configuring replications.
NOTE vSphere 5.5 includes Virtual SAN as an experimental feature. You can perform testing with Virtual
SAN, but it is not supported for use in a production environment. See the release notes for this release for
information about how to enable Virtual SAN.
vSphere Replication does not support replicating or recovering virtual machines to the root folders with
user-friendly names on Virtual SAN datastores. These names can change, which causes replication errors.
When selecting Virtual SAN datastores, always select folders with UUID names, which do not change.
Configuring Replications
When configuring replications for a single virtual machine, vSphere Replication creates the destination
folder that you choose, obtains the UUID reference for that folder, and then uses the UUID name rather than
the user-friendly name. The UUID name is visible when vSphere Replication displays the target folders
when reconfiguring replications.
When configuring replication for multiple virtual machines using the multi-VM wizard, create a root folder
in the vSAN datastore, obtain its UUID name and use this folder by the UUID in the replication wizard.
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