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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
A virtual machine configuration task appears in the Recent Tasks list. A progress bar indicates that the
source virtual machine is being configured for replication.
If the configuration operation completes successfully, the replication task appears in the list of reverse
replications on the Replications tab.
Note If a replication source virtual machine is powered off, the replication starts after you power on the
virtual machine.
What to do next
On the Replications tab, under Forward replications and Reverse replications, you can view the
status of each replication. For more information on the replication status, see Monitoring the Status of
Replications.
Note You can pause, resume, sync, test, recover, and stop replications from cloud, but you cannot
reconfigure or move these replications between vSphere Replication servers.
Reverse a Replication to Cloud
You can use vSphere Replication to reverse a recovered forward replication and start copying data from
the cloud to your local site.
You can replicate a virtual machine from the local site to the cloud and recover the virtual machine at the
cloud site to use it while your local site is being maintained. When your local site is back online, you can
synchronize the changes from the cloud to your local environment, or migrate the virtual machine from
the cloud back to the local environment.
When you reverse a replication, you can only use the original replication settings. You cannot change the
datastore location, RPO, PIT policy, and so on.
Note When you reverse a replication, the source virtual machine on the local site is unregistered from
the inventory and its disks are overridden by the disks that are replicated from the cloud. When the
source virtual machine is unregistered, you can no longer use it unless you recover the replication.
Prerequisites
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Verify that the cloud site is available and connected to the local site. See Connect to a Cloud Provider
Site.
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In the list of forward replications, verify that the status of the replication that you want to reverse is
Recovered. See Migrate a Virtual Machine to Cloud.
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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