8.1
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
Disable the Automatic Export of MAC Addresses During
Replication
By default, when you configure a virtual machine for replication to cloud, its NICs and MAC addresses are
copied automatically to the target site as part of the provisioning of the placeholder virtual machine.
If the test network is not isolated from the production network and these networks have common routing,
a test recovery of a replicated virtual machine might result in duplicate MAC addresses in your virtual data
center.
To avoid duplicate MAC addresses in your data center, you can disable the automatic copying of network
configurations from the source site to cloud sites.
Note Disabling the automatic copying of network configurations does not delete the configurations that
are already replicated to the target site. See http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2086292 .
Procedure
1 Use the vSphere Web Client on the source site to locate the HMS virtual machine and log in as the
root user.
2 Navigate to folder /opt/vmware/hms/conf/.
3 Run the vi hms-configuration.xml command to open the hms-configuration.xml file for
editing.
4 Locate the <hms-dr2c-export-mac-address> parameter, and modify the value to false:
<hms-dr2c-export-mac-address>false</hms-dr2c-export-mac-address>
5 Run the :wq command to save the change, and run the following command to restart the HMS
service.
# service hms restart
The automatic copying of network configurations to target cloud sites is disabled for all newly configured
replications.
Cloud Connection States
You can view the status of connections between your vSphere environment and the virtual data centers
on the remote site by viewing the details of the connection to the cloud provider site.
The following table lists the cloud connection states that you can observe, their meanings, and what you
can do to change a state back to normal.
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