6.5
Table Of Contents
- Using VMware vSphere Replication
- Contents
- About Using VMware vSphere Replication
- Replicating Virtual Machines
- How the Recovery Point Objective Affects Replication Scheduling
- How the 5 Minute Recovery Point Objective Works
- How Retention Policy Works
- Replicating a Virtual Machine and Enabling Multiple Point in Time Instances
- Using vSphere Replication with Virtual SAN Storage
- Using vSphere Replication with vSphere Storage DRS
- How vSphere Replication Synchronizes Data Between vCenter Server Sites During Initial Configuration
- Replicating Virtual Machines Using Replication Seeds
- Replicating a Virtual Machine in a Single vCenter Server Instance
- Best Practices For Using and Configuring vSphere Replication
- Configure Replication for a Single Virtual Machine to vCenter Server
- Configure Replication for Multiple Virtual Machines to vCenter Server
- Move a Replication to a New vSphere Replication Server
- Stop Replicating a Virtual Machine
- Reconfiguring Replications
- Reconfigure Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) in Replications
- Resize the Virtual Machine Disk Files of a Replication that Uses Replication Seeds
- Resize Virtual Machine Disk Files of a Replication that Does Not Use Replication Seeds
- Change the Point in Time Settings of a Replication
- Change the Target Datastore Location of a Replication
- Monitoring and Managing Replications in vSphere Replication
- Performing a Recovery with vSphere Replication
- Troubleshooting vSphere Replication
- Generate vSphere Replication Support Bundle
- vSphere Replication Events and Alarms
- Solutions for Common vSphere Replication Problems
- Error at vService Bindings When Deploying the vSphere Replication Appliance
- OVF Package is Invalid and Cannot be Deployed
- Connection Errors Between vSphere Replication and SQL Server Cannot be Resolved
- Application Quiescing Changes to File System Quiescing During vMotion to an Older Host
- Configuring Replication Fails for Virtual Machines with Two Disks on Different Datastores
- vSphere Replication Service Fails with Unresolved Host Error
- Scalability Problems when Replicating Many Virtual Machines with a Short RPO to a Shared VMFS Datastore on ESXi Server 5.0
- vSphere Replication Sites Appear in the Not Authenticated State
- Error Recovering Virtual Machine in a Single vCenter Server Instance
- vSphere Replication RPO Violations
- vSphere Replication Appliance Extension Cannot Be Deleted
- vSphere Replication Does Not Start After Moving the Host
- Unexpected vSphere Replication Failure Results in a Generic Error
- Reconnecting Sites Fails If One Of the vCenter Servers Has Changed Its IP Address
- Uploading a Valid Certificate to vSphere Replication Results in a Warning
- vSphere Replication Server Registration Takes Several Minutes
- Generating Support Bundles Disrupts vSphere Replication Recovery
- vSphere Replication Operations Take a Long Time to Complete
- vSphere Replication Operations Fail with Authentication Error
- vSphere Replication Does Not Display Incoming Replications When the Source Site is Inaccessible
- vSphere Replication is Inaccessible After Changing vCenter Server Certificate
- vSphere Replication Cannot Establish a Connection to the Hosts
- Anti-virus Agent in Firewall Terminates Virtual Machine Replication
- Initial Full Synchronization of Virtual Machine Files to VMware Virtual SAN Storage Is Slow
- Configuring Replication Fails Because Another Virtual Machine has the Same Instance UUID
- Not Active Replication Status of Virtual Machines
- vSphere Replication Operations Run Slowly as the Number of Replications Increases
- Error at Reconfiguring the vSphere Replication Management Server from the Virtual Appliance Management Interface
- Unable to Establish an SSH Connection to the vSphere Replication Appliance
- The Replication Pauses When You Add a New Disk To the Source VM
- The vSphere Replication Appliance Root File System Switches to Read-only Mode and Login Fails
List of vSphere Replication Events
vSphere Replication Replication monitors replications and the underlying replication infrastructure, and
generates different types of events.
Table 5‑1. vSphere Replication Events
Event Name Event Description Event Type
Categ
ory Event Target
vSphere Replication
configured
Virtual machine is
configured for
vSphere Replication
com.vmware.vcHms.r
eplicationConfiguredE
vent
Info Virtual Machine
vSphere Replication
unconfigured
Virtual machine was
unconfigured for
vSphere Replication
com.vmware.vcHms.r
eplicationUnconfigure
dEvent
Info Virtual Machine
Host configured for
vSphere Replication
Host is configured for
vSphere Replication
com.vmware.vcHms.h
ostConfiguredForHbr
Event
Info Host System
Host unconfigured for
vSphere Replication
Host with managed
object id <Host Moid>
was unconfigured for
vSphere Replication
com.vmware.vcHms.h
ostUnconfiguredForH
brEvent
Info Folder
Virtual machine is not
configured for vSphere
Replication
Virtual machine is
experiencing
problems with
vSphere Replication
and must be
reconfigured
com.vmware.vcHms.v
mMissingReplication
ConfigurationEvent
Error Virtual Machine
VM cleaned up from
vSphere Replication
Virtual machine
cleaned up from
vSphere Replication
configuration
com.vmware.vcHms.v
mReplicationConfigur
ationRemovedEvent
Info Virtual Machine
RPO violated Virtual machine
vSphere Replication
RPO is violated by
<x> minutes
com.vmware.vcHms.r
poViolatedEvent
Error Virtual Machine
RPO restored Virtual machine
vSphere Replication
RPO is not longer
violated
com.vmware.vcHms.r
poRestoredEvent
Info Virtual Machine
Remote vSphere
Replication site is
disconnected
Connection to the
remote
vSphere Replication
site <siteName> is
down
com.vmware.vcHms.r
emoteSiteDownEvent
Error Folder
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