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
Replicating Virtual Machines to
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You can configure replications from vSphere environments to cloud for a single virtual machine or for
multiple virtual machines.
To replicate virtual machines to cloud, you must deploy the vSphere Replication 8.1 appliance at the
source site, and your cloud provider must enable replications to the cloud in your cloud organization.
The source and target sites must be connected so that you can configure replications. See Connect to a
Cloud Provider Site.
To avoid copying large volumes of data between the source site and the cloud over a network connection,
you can create replication seeds on the target site and configure replication tasks to use them. See Using
Replication Seeds for Replications to Cloud.
For each replication task, you can set a recovery point objective (RPO) to a certain time interval
depending on your data protection needs. vSphere Replication applies all changes made to replication
source virtual machines to their replicas on the target site. This process reoccurs at the RPO interval that
you set.
You can configure replications for powered-off virtual machines, but the data synchronization begins when
the virtual machine is powered on. While the source virtual machine is powered off, the replication
appears in Not active status.
You cannot use vSphere Replication to replicate virtual machine templates.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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Configure a Replication to Cloud
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Using Replication Seeds for Replications to Cloud
Configure a Replication to Cloud
You can protect one or more virtual machines and their virtual disks by replicating them to your cloud
organization.
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