Edit Replication Settings

Modify the settings of any existing incoming or outgoing replications. The protections allow modifying RPO, instances retention rules, quiescing, and compressing the replication traffic. The migrations only allow compressing the traffic. The replications with a site backed by VMware Cloud Director also allow selecting an SLA profile and VDC compute policies.

Prerequisites

• Verify that you can access VMware Cloud Director Availability as a tenant or as a service provider. For more information, see Accessing VMware Cloud Director Availability.

Procedure

1. In the left pane, choose a replication direction by clicking Incoming Replications or Outgoing Replications.
2. Select a replication with a Green overall health.
3. Click All Actions > Replication Settings.
4. In the Edit Replication Settings window, modify the available replication settings, according to the type of the selected replications then click Apply.

   Option	Description
   Protection	Select the target recovery point objective (RPO), or for protections to and from cloud sites backed by VMware Cloud Director, you can also select an SLA profile Retention rules for instances Quiesce Compress replication traffic For protections to and from cloud sites backed by VMware Cloud Director you can also select the VDC policy settings: VDC VM placement policy VDC VM sizing policy
   Migration	Compress replication traffic For migrations to and from cloud sites backed by VMware Cloud Director you can also select the VDC policy settings: VDC VM placement policy VDC VM sizing policy

Results

In the Tasks pane, a Reconfigure replication settings task runs.