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
Table 5‑1. vSphere Replication Events (Continued)
Event Name Event Description Event Type
Categ
ory Event Target
Remote vSphere
Replication site is
connected
Connection to the
remote
vSphere Replication
site <siteName> is
established
com.vmware.vcHms.r
emoteSiteUpEvent
Info Folder
VR Server
disconnected
vSphere Replication
server <VR Server>
disconnected
com.vmware.vcHms.h
brDisconnectedEvent
Info Folder
VR Server reconnected vSphere Replication
server <VR Server>
reconnected
com.vmware.vcHms.h
brReconnectedEvent
Info Folder
Invalid vSphere
Replication cleaned up
Virtual machine <VM
name> was removed
from vCenter Server
and its
vSphere Replication
state was cleaned up
com.vmware.vcHms.r
eplicationCleanedUp
Event
Info Folder
Virtual machine
recovered from replica
Recovered virtual
machine <VM Name>
from
vSphere Replication
image
com.vmware.vcHms.v
mRecoveredEvent
Info Virtual Machine
vSphere Replication
cannot access
datastore
Datastore is not
accessible for
vSphere Replication
Server
com.vmware.vcHms.d
atastoreInaccessibleE
vent
Error Datastore
vSphere Replication
handled a disk addition
on a virtual machine
vSphere Replication
detected and handled
the addition of a disk
to virtual machine
<VM name>. Disks
added are <Disk
name>
com.vmware.vcHms.h
andledVmDiskAddEv
ent
Info Virtual Machine
vSphere Replication
handled a disk removal
on a virtual machine
vSphere Replication
detected and handled
the addition of a disk
to virtual machine
<VM name>. Disks
added are <Disk
name>
com.vmware.vcHms.h
andledVmDiskRemov
eEvent
Info Virtual Machine
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