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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
5 Select the replication that you want to recover and click the Recover icon.
The Recover virtual machine wizard opens.
6 On the Recovery options page, select a data synchronization option.
Option Description
Synchronize recent changes vSphere Replication runs a synchronization task before it configures the
placeholder virtual machine on the local site. This option requires you to log in to
the cloud provider site. A dialog box appears for the login.
Use latest available data vSphere Replication configures the placeholder virtual machine and uses the data
that is copied on the local site. If MPIT is enabled, retained instances are
converted to virtual machine snapshots.
7 To power on the virtual machine on the target site after test configuration completes, select the Power
on the virtual machine after recovery check box.
8 Click Next.
9 (Optional) If you selected the Synchronize recent changes option, on the Source VM shutdown
page, select how to stop the source virtual machine and click Next.
Option Description
Guest shutdown Shuts down the operating system of the virtual machine within the timeout period
that you set in the time spinners. This option uses VMware Tools. Select the
Guest shutdown option only if VMware Tools is installed in the guest OS.
Power off Immediately shuts down the guest operating system or powers off the virtual
machine. The guest OS might not shut down properly. Select the Power off
option only if VMware Tools is not installed on the guest OS.
10 Select a folder for the virtual machine on the local site.
11 Select a resource for the virtual machine on the local site.
12 Review your settings and click Finish.
The replication status changes to Recovered and the source virtual machine is no longer being replicated
to the local site. If the recovery network mapping is configured, vSphere Replication connects the virtual
machine to the local vCenter Server network.
What to do next
To continue replicating the source virtual machine to the local site, stop the replication task that is in
Recovered state and configure a new replication.
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