To control the replication settings allowed for replications on a VMware Cloud Director organization level, as a service provider you create replication policies.

Prerequisites

  • Verify that VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.3 or later is deployed in the cloud site for allowing advanced retention rules.

Procedure

  1. In the left pane under Configuration, click Policies.
  2. In the Policies page, click New.
  3. In the New Policy window, configure the replication attributes, and click Create.
    Option Description
    Policy name Enter a unique, case-sensitive name for the new policy.
    Incoming migrations Select to allow incoming migrations.
    Outgoing migrations Select to allow outgoing migrations.
    Incoming protections Select to allow incoming protections.
    Outgoing protections Select to allow outgoing protections.
    Custom SLA settings Select to allow custom SLA settings per replication. Deselect to allow only the SLA profiles to set the SLA settings.
    Allow advanced retention rules If incoming protections are selected, select to enable advanced retention rules for protections for configuring the number of rotated instances and their time distance spread apart.
    Max rotated instances per protection If incoming protections are selected, enter the maximum number of rotated instances per protection, up to 24.
    Max stored instances per protection If incoming protections are selected, enter the maximum number of stored instances per protection, up to 24.
    Minimum allowed RPO If incoming protections are selected, set the minimum allowed RPO by using the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) slider or by clicking the time ranges from as short as one minute to the maximum of 24 hours.
    Note: For shorter RPO, follow the recommendations for lowering the occurrence of RPO violations for the protection, by using all-flash storage and see Replicating Workloads.

    With short RPO, even when meeting these recommendations, an I/O intensive protected workload can still cause RPO violations.
    Events and Notifications Select to allow users control of the event notifications.
    Limit the number of configured replications If incoming migrations or incoming protections or both are selected, enter the maximum number of replications.
    Bandwidth throttling Select whether to allow bandwidth throttling and if selected enter the maximum throughput per each VMware Cloud Director Availability On-Premises Appliance.

Results

You created the replication policy and you see the new policy listed on the Policies page.

What to do next

You can assign the new policy to a VMware Cloud Director organization. For more information, see Assign a Replication Policy to Organizations.