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Table Of Contents
- vSphere Replication for Disaster Recovery to Cloud
- Contents
- About Disaster Recovery to Cloud
- Updated Information
- Disaster Recovery to Cloud System Requirements and Compatibility
- Installing and Configuring vSphere Replication to Cloud
- Replicating Virtual Machines to Cloud
- Reconfiguring Replications to the Cloud
- Recovering Virtual Machines to Cloud
- Configuring Replications from Cloud
- Monitoring and Managing Replication Tasks
- Troubleshooting vSphere Replication for Disaster Recovery to Cloud
After installing the vSphere Replication appliance, you must configure it to synchronize with an external
NTP server. See Configure NTP Synchronisation in Your Environment.
Upgrading vSphere Replication from Earlier Product
Versions
You can upgrade vSphere Replication 5.5.x, 5.8 and 6.0.0.x to vSphere Replication 6.x.
To upgrade a previously installed version of vSphere Replication to vSphere Replication for
Disaster Recovery to Cloud, you must mount the vSphere Replication ISO file on a system in your
environment that is accessible from the vSphere Replication appliance, and apply the update through the
virtual appliance administration interface (VAMI) on port 5480. See Upgrade vSphere Replication by
Using the Downloadable ISO Image.
After upgrading the vSphere Replication appliance, you must configure it to synchronize with an external
NTP server. See Configure NTP Synchronisation in Your Environment.
Configure NTP Synchronisation in Your Environment
You must synchronize the time on the vSphere Replication appliance in your environment with an NTP
server.
By default, the vSphere Replication appliance is synchronized with the ESXi host on which it resides. You
must disable the NTP synchronization with the host and configure the vSphere Replication appliance and
the vCenter Server to synchronize with an external NTP server.
Procedure
1 Configure NTP synchronization on the vSphere Replication appliance.
a In the vSphere inventory tree, locate the vSphere Replication appliance, right-click and select
Edit Settings.
b On the VM Options tab, click VMware Tools.
c Deselect the Synchronize guest time with host check box.
d In the virtual appliance console, run the command chkconfig ntp on to run NTP
synchronization every time the vSphere Replication appliance starts up.
e To configure the vSphere Replication appliance to synchronize with an NTP server, edit
the /etc/ntp.conf file to enter the address of an NTP server.
Add the following line in the ntp.conf file:
server <your_ntp_server_address>
f Run the service ntp start command.
2 Configure the vCenter Server on the source site to synchronize with the NTP server that you
configured in the vSphere Replication appliance.
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