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Table Of Contents
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About Using VMware vSphere Replication 4
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Replicating Virtual Machines 5
How the Recovery Point Objective Affects Replication Scheduling 6
How the 5 Minute Recovery Point Objective Works 7
How Retention Policy Works 7
Replicating a Virtual Machine and Enabling Multiple Point in Time Instances 9
Using vSphere Replication with Virtual SAN Storage 9
Using vSphere Replication with vSphere Storage DRS 11
How vSphere Replication Synchronizes Data Between vCenter Server Sites During Initial
Configuration 11
Replicating Virtual Machines Using Replication Seeds 13
Replicating a Virtual Machine in a Single vCenter Server Instance 13
Best Practices For Using and Configuring vSphere Replication 14
Configure Replication for a Single Virtual Machine to vCenter Server 15
Configure Replication for Multiple Virtual Machines to vCenter Server 18
Move a Replication to a New vSphere Replication Server 20
Stop Replicating a Virtual Machine 21
Reconfiguring Replications 22
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Monitoring and Managing Replications in vSphere Replication 26
View the Replication Summary for a Site 26
View Replication Reports for a Site 28
Identifying Replication Problems in the Issues Tab 30
Manage Target Sites 31
Manage vSphere Replication Servers 31
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Performing a Recovery with vSphere Replication 33
Recover Virtual Machines by Using vSphere Replication 34
Failback of Virtual Machines in vSphere Replication 35
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Troubleshooting vSphere Replication 36
Generate vSphere Replication Support Bundle 36
vSphere Replication Events and Alarms 37
Solutions for Common vSphere Replication Problems 41
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