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
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Overview of the Disaster Recovery Service,” on page 8
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“Why Use Disaster Recovery in vCloud Air?,” on page 9
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“About Setting up the Disaster Recovery Service,” on page 10
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“Workflow for Using the Disaster Recovery Service,” on page 11
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“System Requirements and Compatibility,” on page 12
Overview of the Disaster Recovery Service
The Disaster Recovery service enables site administrators to protect their vSphere virtual workloads from a
broad range of potential disruptions by asynchronously replicating those workloads from a source site to
the cloud for recovery. The Disaster Recovery service uses vSphere Replication (host-based replication) to
replicate virtual machines to vCloud Air.
Administrators can perform a variety of disaster recovery operations for their virtual machines, including
testing, planned migrations, and recovery by using the Disaster Recovery service.
Figure 1‑1. Interaction Between vSphere Replication and vCloud Air
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Features of the Disaster Recovery Service
The following key features provide the benefits of the Disaster Recovery service:
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Simple and secure (enterprise to cloud) asynchronous replication and recovery for virtual machines
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Self-service disaster recovery testing and recovery of workflows per virtual machine
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Guaranteed (warm standby) resource availability on the vCloud Air platform
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On-premises monitoring and management with the vSphere Web Client
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Flexible subscription options for elastic consumption
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Support for initial data seeding by using VMware vCloud Connector Offline Data Transfer (ODT)
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Native failback of workflows to your source site using vSphere Replication
NOTE You need to use vSphere Replication version 6.0 or later.
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Self-service RPO settings from 15 minutes to 24 hours per virtual machine
NOTE RPO policy compliance is dependent on available bandwidth from the source site to vCloud Air.
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Multiple point in time recovery snapshots
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Unlimited Disaster Recovery tests per year
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