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Table Of Contents
- VMware vSphere Replication Administration
- Contents
- vSphere Replication Administration
- Updated Information
- Overview of VMware vSphere Replication
- vSphere Replication Roles and Permissions
- vSphere Replication System Requirements
- Installing vSphere Replication
- Deploying Additional vSphere Replication Servers
- Upgrading vSphere Replication
- Reconfigure the vSphere Replication Appliance
- Reconfigure General vSphere Replication Settings
- Change the SSL Certificate of the vSphere Replication Appliance
- Change the Password of the vSphere Replication Appliance
- Change Keystore and Truststore Passwords of the vSphere Replication Appliance
- Configure vSphere Replication Network Settings
- Configure vSphere Replication System Settings
- Reconfigure vSphere Replication to Use an External Database
- Use the Embedded vSphere Replication Database
- Replicating Virtual Machines
- How the Recovery Point Objective Affects Replication Scheduling
- Replicating a Virtual Machine and Enabling Multiple Point in Time Instances
- Using vSphere Replication with Virtual SAN Storage
- Replicating Virtual Machines Using Replication Seeds
- Replicating a Virtual Machine in a Single vCenter Server Instance
- Configure Replication for a Single Virtual Machine
- Configure Replication for Multiple Virtual Machines
- Move a Virtual Machine to a New vSphere Replication Server
- Stop Replicating a Virtual Machine
- Reconfiguring Replications
- Performing a Recovery with vSphere Replication
- Monitoring and Managing Replications in vSphere Replication
- Troubleshooting vSphere Replication
- vSphere Replication Limitations
- Access the vSphere Replication Logs
- 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 Disconnected 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
- Increase the Memory of the vSphere Replication Server for Large Deployments
- 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 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
- vSphere Web Client 5.1.x Non-Functioning Option Binds vSphere Replication Traffic to a Specific vmknic
- Configuring Replication Fails After Rebuilding VRMS
- vSphere Replication Operations Run Slowly as the Number of Replications Increases
Table 3‑1. Compatibility of vSphere Replication with Other vSphere Features
vSphere Feature
Compatible with
vSphere Replication Description
vSphere vMotion Yes You can migrate replicated virtual machines by using vMotion. Replication
continues at the defined recovery point objective (RPO) after the migration is
finished.
vSphere Storage
vMotion
Yes You can move the disk files of a replicated virtual machine on the source site
using Storage vMotion with no impact on the ongoing replication.
vSphere High
Availability
Yes You can protect a replicated virtual machine by using HA. Replication continues
at the defined RPO after HA restarts a virtual machine. vSphere Replication
does not perform any special HA handling.
Note You cannot protect the vSphere Replication appliance itself by using HA.
vSphere Fault
Tolerance
No vSphere Replication cannot replicate virtual machines that have fault tolerance
enabled. You cannot protect the vSphere Replication appliance itself with FT.
vSphere DRS Yes Replication continues at the defined RPO after resource redistribution is
finished.
vSphere Storage
DRS
Yes You can move the disk files of a replicated virtual machine on the source site
using Storage DRS with no impact on the ongoing replication.
VMware Virtual
SAN datastore
Fully supported in
vSphere Replication 5.5.1.
Experimental support in
vSphere Replication 5.5.
You can use VMware Virtual SAN datastores as a target datastore when
configuring replications.
Note VMware Virtual SAN is a fully supported feature of vSphere 5.5u1.
n
You can use Virtual SAN in production environments with
vSphere Replication 5.5.1 and vSphere 5.5u1.
n
Virtual SAN is an experimental feature in vSphere 5.5. You can perform
testing with Virtual SAN with vSphere Replication 5.5.0 and vSphere 5.5,
but it is not supported for use in production environments. See the release
notes for the vSphere Replication 5.5.0 release for information about how
to enable Virtual SAN in vSphere 5.5.
vSphere
Distributed Power
Management
Yes vSphere Replication coexists with DPM on the source site. vSphere Replication
does not perform any special DPM handling on the source site. Disable DPM
on the target site to allow enough hosts as replication targets.
VMware vSphere
Flash Read Cache
Yes You can replicate virtual machines that contain disks that use VMware vSphere
Flash Read Cache storage. Since the host to which a virtual machine recovers
might not be configured for Flash Read Cache, vSphere Replication disables
Flash Read Cache on disks when it starts the virtual machines on the target
site. After the recovery, you can migrate the virtual machine to a host with Flash
Read Cache storage and restore the original Flash Read Cache setting on the
virtual machine.
vCloud APIs Not applicable No interaction with vSphere Replication.
vCenter
Chargeback
Not applicable No interaction with vSphere Replication
VMware Data
Recovery
Not applicable No interaction with vSphere Replication.
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