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 4.5 or later is deployed in the cloud site for finer control over the allowed destination of the migration, restraining tenants from migrating to on-premises or to other cloud sites.

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 To allow incoming migrations, activate the toggle.
    Outgoing migrations to cloud To allow outgoing migrations, where the destination is a cloud site, activate the toggle.
    Outgoing migrations to On-Premises To allow outgoing migrations, where the destination site is on-premises, activate the toggle.
    Incoming protections To allow incoming protections, activate the toggle.
    Outgoing protections To allow outgoing protections, activate the toggle.
    Custom SLA settings To allow custom SLA settings per replication, activate the toggle. Alternatively, to allow only the SLA profiles to set the SLA settings, deactivate the toggle.
    Allow advanced retention rules If incoming protections are activated, to allow advanced retention rules for protections for configuring the number of rotated instances and their time distance spread apart, activate the toggle.
    Max rotated instances per protection If incoming protections are activated, enter the maximum number of rotated instances per protection, up to 24.
    Max stored instances per protection If incoming protections are activated, enter the maximum number of stored instances per protection, up to 24.
    Minimum allowed RPO If incoming protections are activated, set the minimum allowed RPO by using the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) slider or by clicking the time ranges.
    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.
    Allow organizations to modify Events and Notifications settings To allow tenants control of the event notification, activate the toggle.
    Limit the number of configured replications If incoming migrations or incoming protections or both are activated, enter the maximum number of replications.
    Bandwidth throttling To allow bandwidth throttling, activate the toggle then enter the maximum throughput per each On-Premises to Cloud Director Replication Appliance. After you modify the value, the new value takes effect after 30 minutes.

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.