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Table Of Contents
- vSphere Replication for Disaster Recovery to Cloud
- Contents
- About Disaster Recovery to Cloud
- Disaster Recovery to Cloud System Requirements and Compatibility
- Installing and Configuring vSphere Replication to Cloud
- Installing vSphere Replication for Disaster Recovery to Cloud
- Upgrading vSphere Replication from Earlier Product Versions
- Configure the NTP Synchronization in Your Environment
- How vSphere Replication Connects to Cloud
- Configuring the Connection to the Cloud
- Connect to a Cloud Provider Site
- Reconfiguring a Site Pair and Breaking a Site Pair
- Select Recovery Networks on the Target Virtual Data Center
- Select Recovery Networks from Cloud to the Local Site
- Disable the Automatic Export of MAC Addresses During Replication
- Cloud Connection States
- Reconnect to a Cloud Provider Site
- Replicating Virtual Machines to Cloud
- Reconfiguring Replications to the Cloud
- Recovering Virtual Machines to Cloud
- Configuring Replications from Cloud
- Recovering Virtual Machines from Cloud
- Monitoring and Managing Replications in vSphere Replication
Procedure
1 Use an SSH client to connect to the vSphere Replication appliance and log in as the root user.
2 Run the following command to configure the ports for tunnel connections.
/opt/vmware/vcta/bin/cell-management-tool
configure-vcta-server -prl LOW -prh HIGH
Where LOW and HIGH define the range of ports to be used for tunnel connections. To use only one
port, type the port number as the value for LOW and HIGH.
For example, the following command configures the vCloud Tunneling Agent to use only port 10001.
/opt/vmware/vcta/bin/cell-management-tool
configure-vcta-server -prl 10001 -prh 10001
Note You can designate any free TCP port in your environment for the communication between
ESXi hosts and the vCloud Tunneling Agent, but you must verify that all ESXi hosts and the vCloud
Tunneling Agent are configured to use the same ports.
3 Run the following command to restart the vCloud Tunneling Agent.
service vmware-vcd restart
Configuring the Connection to the Cloud
In addition to installing and configuring the vSphere Replication appliance, you must configure the
connection to your cloud provider.
You can configure a connection to the cloud provider before you start the Configure Replication wizard
or while you configure a replication task.
Connect to a Cloud Provider Site
Before you configure replication tasks to the cloud, you configure the connections between your vSphere
environment and virtual data centers that belong to your cloud organizations.
You can connect a vCenter Server to multiple virtual data centers, and a virtual data center can be
connected to multiple vCenter Server instances.
Prerequisites
Verify that you have user credentials for a cloud organization in which vCloud Director is enabled. Your
cloud provider enables the Disaster Recovery to Cloud service per your contract.
Procedure
1 Log in to the vSphere Client or vSphere Web Client.
2 On the home page, click Site Recovery and click Open Site Recovery.
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