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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
Configuring Replications from
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If a virtual machine was recovered in the cloud, you can replicate the virtual machine from your cloud
environment to a vCenter Server.
You select whether to configure a new replication from cloud or a reverse replication from cloud
depending on the condition of your local environment.
Configuring Replications from Cloud
When the local site does not contain data about a forward or reverse cloud replication for the virtual
machine that you want to replicate, you can configure a replication from cloud for that machine.
Note If the local site contains outgoing replication data for a virtual machine that was recovered in the
cloud virtual data center, you must stop that replication before attempting to configure a replication for the
recovered virtual machine from cloud or use the Reverse replication action.
In addition to replicating virtual machines from your local site to the virtual data center in the cloud, you
can also use replications from the cloud to restore your site by using the data that was previously
replicated in the cloud. For example, a partial or complete breakdown has occurred at your local site, and
the source virtual machines that were used for replications to cloud are missing. Additionally, the data for
forward cloud replications is missing, too. In your cloud organization, you have recovered some of the
replicated virtual machines. To restore them back on your local site, you can configure replications from
cloud for the recovered virtual machines.
Reversing Replications to Cloud
On the local site, for a forward cloud replication that is in the recovered status, you can reverse that
replication to start transferring data from the recovered virtual machine in the cloud to the local virtual
machine that served as the replication source before the recovery operation.
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