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Table Of Contents
- VMware vSphere Replication Installation and Configuration
- Contents
- vSphere Replication Installation and Configuration
- Updated Information
- Overview of VMware vSphere Replication
- vSphere Replication System Requirements
- Installing and Uninstalling vSphere Replication
- Install vSphere Replication
- Uninstall vSphere Replication
- Unregister vSphere Replication from vCenter Server if the Appliance Was Deleted
- Configuring the Customer Experience Improvement Program
- Isolating the Network Traffic of vSphere Replication
- Set Up a VMkernel Adapter for vSphere Replication Traffic on a Source Host
- Set Up a VMkernel Adapter for vSphere Replication Traffic on a Target Host
- Create a VM Network Adapter to Use for Incoming Replication Traffic on the Combined vSphere Replication Appliance
- Create VM Network Adapters to Isolate the Network Traffic of a vSphere Replication Server
- 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
- Update the NTP Server Configuration
- Reconfigure vSphere Replication to Use an External Database
- Use the Embedded vSphere Replication Database
- vSphere Replication Roles and Permissions
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Upgraded vSphere Replication appliances that use the embedded vSphere Replication database
require additional configuration to enable the support of a maximum of 2000 replications. See
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2102463. No additional configuration is required for vSphere Replication
appliances that are configured to use an external database.
Compatibility of vSphere Replication with Other vSphere
Features
vSphere Replication is compatible with certain other vSphere management features.
You can safely use vSphere Replication in combination with certain vSphere features, such as vSphere
vMotion. Some other vSphere features, for example vSphere Distributed Power Management, require
special configuration for use with vSphere Replication.
Note You cannot upgrade VMware Tools in the vSphere Replication appliance.
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 On the source site, Storage DRS can move the disk files of replicated virtual
machines with no impact on the ongoing replication.
On the target site, you must register the vSphere Replication appliance with the
vCenter Single Sign-On service to enable the communication between Storage
DRS and the vSphere Replication Management server. See Register the
vSphere Replication Appliance with vCenter Single Sign-On.
VMware Virtual
SAN datastore
Yes You can use VMware Virtual SAN datastores as the source and target datastore
when configuring replications.
Note VMware Virtual SAN is a fully supported feature of vSphere 5.5 Update 1
and later.
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. You can disable
DPM on the target site to allow enough hosts as replication targets.
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