Configure new protection to replicate the workload from one site to another while keeping it running in the source site. After a successful replication, if the source site becomes unavailable, you can fail over and power on the protected workload in the destination site.
Prerequisites
- Verify that VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.5 or later is deployed for selecting a sizing compute policy.
- 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.
- Verify that your session is extended to the site in which the vApps or virtual machines you are about to protect reside. For more information, see Authenticating to paired remote cloud sites.