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- VMware vSphere Replication Installation and Configuration
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- 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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Deploy and register additional vSphere Replication servers.
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Configure the replication of individual or multiple virtual machines.
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View incoming and outgoing replications.
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Monitor and manage the status of the replications.
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Recover virtual machines.
Source and Target Sites
In a typical vSphere Replication installation, the source site provides business-critical data center
services. The target site is an alternative facility to which you can migrate these services.
The source site can be any site where vCenter Server supports a critical business need. The target site
can be in another location, or in the same facility to establish redundancy. The target site is usually
located in a facility that is unlikely to be affected by environmental, infrastructure, or other disturbances
that might affect the source site.
vSphere Replication has the following requirements for the vSphere
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environments at each site:
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Each site must have at least one data center.
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The target site must have hardware, network, and storage resources that can support the same
virtual machines and workloads as the source site.
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The sites must be connected by a reliable IP network.
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The target site must have access to networks (public and private) comparable to those on the source
site, although not necessarily the same range of network addresses.
Connecting Source and Target Sites
Before you replicate virtual machines between two sites, you must connect the sites. When connecting
sites, users at both sites must have the VRM remote.Manage VRM privilege assigned.
When you connect sites that are part of the same SSO domain, you need to select the target site only,
without providing authentication details, because you are already logged in.
When you connect sites that belong to different SSO domains, the vSphere Replication Management
Server must register with the Platform Services Controller (PSC) on the target site. You must provide
authentication details for the target site, including IP or FQDN of the server where PSC runs, and user
credentials. See Configure vSphere Replication Connections.
After connecting the sites, you can monitor the connectivity state between them on the Target Sites tab.
How vSphere Replication Works
With vSphere Replication, you can configure replication of a virtual machine from a source site to a target
site, monitor and manage the status of the replication, and recover the virtual machine at the target site.
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