Disaster Recovery User's Guide
Table Of Contents
- VMware vCloud Air - Disaster Recovery User's Guide
- Contents
- About this vCloud Air – Disaster Recovery User's Guide
- The Disaster Recovery Service
- Managing Disaster Recovery in vCloud Air
- Assign a User to the Roles for Disaster Recovery
- About Networks for the Disaster Recovery Service
- About Placeholders in vCloud Air
- Lease Times for Tests and Recoveries
- About Test Recoveries
- Test a Recovery
- Clean up a Test Recovery
- About Recovery to vCloud Air
- Recover a Virtual Machine
- Remove a Replication from vCloud Air
- About Failback for Virtual Machines to the Source Site
- Index
Figure 2‑2. Placeholders in the Replication Tab
Table 2‑1. Replication Information Displayed for Each Placeholder
Column Description
Name The name of the placeholder virtual machine
Replication Status The current status of the replication
Last Completed Last synchronization completed; displayed using the local time of the browser time zone
Duration The length of time the last synchronization took
Size The size of the last data replicated (not the size of the virtual machine)
RPO Recovery point objective (RPO), which is the replication time interval that you specify, depending
on your data protection needs
vSphere Replication applies all changes made to virtual machines configured for replication at
the source site to their replicas in the cloud. Replication occurs at the RPO interval that you set in
the vSphere Web Client.
NOTE Lower RPO times reduce potential data loss but use more bandwidth and system
resources. By default, the vSphere Web Client sets 4 hours as the RPO value.
Table 2‑2. About the Replication Status Values
Replication Status Description
Configuring Virtual machine configuration is in progress.
Full Sync Full synchronization is in progress.
Initial Full Sync Initial full synchronization is in progress. This status only appears for the first initial
synchronization when the virtual machine is added to the system.
Not Active The virtual machine replication is configured properly and vCloud Air did not encounter a
replication error. However, vCloud Air is not receiving replication traffic for the placeholder or
does not have an open connection for the placeholder.
OK The replication is configured correctly—no configuration or replication errors are present.
However, the Disaster Recovery service has not sent replication traffic to the cloud.
Paused The replication is not running because a vSphere Replication user paused the replication. See
Pause or Resume a Replication Task in vSphere Replication 6.0 for Disaster Recovery to Cloud for
information.
Recovered The Disaster Recovery service recovered the virtual machine to the cloud successfully.
Recovering The Disaster Recovery service is recovering the virtual machine to the cloud.
Sync The virtual machine data at the source site is synchronizing with the placeholder virtual machine
in vCloud Air.
See Monitoring the Status of Replication Tasks in vSphere Replication 6.0 for Disaster Recovery to Cloud for
information.
NOTE If an RPO violation occurs when vCloud Air (the replication target) loses connectivity to the source
site, it is displayed in the Web Console.
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