VMware vSphere Replication - 5.8 User’s Manual
vSphere Replication for Disaster
Recovery to Cloud
vSphere Replication 5.8
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Contents
About vSphere Replication for Disaster Recovery to Cloud Documentation 5
Updated Information 7
About Disaster Recovery to Cloud 9
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Disaster Recovery to Cloud System Requirements and Compatibility 11
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Roles and Permissions that Disaster Recovery to Cloud Requires 11
Installing and Conguring vSphere Replication to Cloud 13
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Installing vSphere Replication for Disaster Recovery to Cloud 13
Upgrading from Earlier Product Versions 14
How vSphere Replication Connects to Cloud 14
Conguring the Connection to the Cloud 16
Congure NTP Synchronisation in Your Environment 20
Replicating Virtual Machines to Cloud 21
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Congure a Replication to Cloud for a Single Virtual Machine 21
Congure a Cloud Replication Task for Multiple Virtual Machines 23
Using Replication Seeds 25
Reconguring Replications to the Cloud 27
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Recongure a Replication to Cloud 27
Monitoring and Managing Replication Tasks 29
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States of Replication Tasks 29
Pause or Resume a Replication Task 30
Stop a Replication Task 30
Recovering Virtual Machines to Cloud 33
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Test Recovery to Cloud 33
Planned Migration to Cloud 34
Troubleshooting vSphere Replication for Disaster Recovery to Cloud 37
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vSphere Replication UI is Missing After a vCenter Server Upgrade 37
Index 39
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About vSphere Replication for Disaster Recovery to Cloud Documentation
The Disaster Recovery to Cloud Documentation supplements the vSphere Replication Administration document to
provide information about conguring your instance of vSphere Replication to allow replications to and
from cloud.
In addition, this documentation includes reference information about user roles and permissions that the
vCloud Air Disaster Recovery service requires, and procedures on conguring, monitoring, and managing
replications to and from cloud.
Intended Audience
This information is intended for anyone who wants to use vSphere Replication to replicate virtual machines
from their vSphere environment to clouds managed by vCloud Air. The information is wrien for
experienced Windows and Linux system administrators who are familiar with virtual machines technology,
virtual networks, and datacenter operations.
VMware Technical Publications Glossary
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Updated Information
This vSphere Replication for Disaster Recovery document is updated with each release of the product or when
necessary.
This table provides the update history of the vSphere Replication for Disaster Recovery document.
Revision Description
001502-01 Updated topic Chapter 1, “About Disaster Recovery to Cloud,” on page 9 to clarify that
vSphere Replication for Disaster Recovery works with vCloud Air.
001502-00 Initial release.
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About Disaster Recovery to Cloud 1
You can subscribe to the VMware vCloud® Air™ Disaster Recovery service to protect your vSphere
workloads.
vCloud Air Disaster Recovery lets administrators of small sites to protect their vSphere virtual workloads
from a wide class of disasters by replicating those workloads into the cloud. vCloud Air Disaster Recovery
uses the host-based replication feature of vSphere Replication to copy the protected source virtual machines
into the infrastructure of the cloud provider. If a disaster occurs, the vCloud Air Disaster Recovery servers
can convert the replicated data into vApps and virtual machines in the cloud.
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Disaster Recovery to Cloud System
Requirements and Compatibility 2
To enable replications to the cloud, your environment must meet certain requirements in terms of additional
conguration and specic versions of the VMware products that you use.
System Requirements
Disaster Recovery to Cloud has the same requirements to the environment as vSphere Replication. In
addition, Disaster Recovery to Cloud requires that ports 10000 to 10010 of ESXi hosts are open for outgoing
trac . The required ports are open automatically when you install a VIB on each supported ESXi host in the
environment where the vSphere Replication appliance is deployed. See “How vSphere Replication Connects
to Cloud,” on page 14.
Product Compatibility
Replications to the cloud require that you run certain versions of VMware products on the source site and
on the target site. Your cloud provider ensures that the target environment is congured for replications to
cloud. You must verify that you run a supported version of the following products on the source site.
Table 2‑1. Compatible Product Versions on the Source Site for Replications to the Cloud
Product Supported Version
vSphere Replication appliance 5.6
ESXi host 5.0, 5.1, and 5.5
vCenter Server 5.1 and 5.5
vSphere Web Client 5.1 and 5.5
Roles and Permissions that Disaster Recovery to Cloud Requires
Replications to the cloud require certain users, roles, and permissions.
vSphere Web Client
On the vSphere side, you need the same credentials as the ones required for vSphere Replication. See topic
vSphere Replication Roles Reference in the VMware vSphere Replication Administration document.
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vCloud User Credentials
When you create a connection to the target virtual data center, you provide two pairs of credentials.
Connection Credentials
System Monitoring
Credentials
Used to authenticate within the cloud organization, these credentials initiate
a user session with your cloud provider. The privileges for your user account
are managed by your cloud provider.
com.vmware.hcs.{com.vmware.hcs}:ManageRight
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com.vmware.hcs.{com.vmware.hcs}:ViewRight
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Organization.View Organization Networks
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Organization.View Organizations
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Organization VDC.View Organization VDCs
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Credentials to the cloud are required for each target site, once per user
session, and not per operation in the vSphere Web Client. When the
authenticated user session to a target site expires, users are prompted to
input their credentials again.
Used at runtime to let the source and the target site communicate. These
credentials are stored in the vSphere Replication appliance on the source site.
The user that you provide should be assigned the vSphere Replication role,
or the following rights in your cloud organization .
com.vmware.hcs.{com,vmware.hcs}:ManageRight
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com.vmware.hcs.{com,vmware.hcs}:ViewRight
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Organization.View Organization Networks
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Organization.View Organizations
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Organization VDC.View Organization VDCs
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Although you can use the same credentials for both connection and system monitoring, a good practice is to
use dierent pairs of credentials.
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