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
About this vCloud Air – Disaster Recovery
User's Guide
The vCloud Air – Disaster Recovery User's Guide provides information about vCloud Air – Disaster Recovery
(formerly known as vCloud Hybrid Service – Disaster Recovery) from VMware
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This guide provides information about using the Disaster Recovery service to manage virtual machines
replicated from your source site to the cloud as well as from the cloud back to your source site. This guide
provides information in two parts:
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The first part of this guide provides an overview of the Disaster Recovery service and how to configure
and manage it by using both the vSphere Web Client and vCloud Air.
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The second part of this guide explains how to perform the Disaster Recovery service tasks in
vCloud Air.
Intended Audience
This guide documents the tasks for disaster recovery administrators who are responsible for configuring
and managing disaster recovery from their source sites to vCloud Air. This guide documents the capabilities
and tasks that you do in vCloud Air.
Related Documentation
In addition to reading this guide, see the following documentation for complete information about using the
Disaster Recovery service:
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vSphere Replication for Disaster Recovery to Cloud for information about using the vSphere Web
Client to manage the Disaster Recovery service from your source site
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vCloud Air User's Guide for general information about managing your virtual machines in the cloud
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vCloud Air Networking Guide for general information about setting up networking for virtual
machines in the cloud
VMware Technical Publications Glossary
VMware Technical Publications provides a glossary of terms that might be unfamiliar to you. For definitions
of terms as they are used in VMware technical documentation, go to
http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs.
VMware, Inc.
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