When creating a new incoming or outgoing replication, you can use a vApp or virtual machine as a seed to avoid transferring large amounts of data over the network during the initial full synchronization.
Prerequisites
- Verify that the free space in the destination datastore is at least double that of the source vApp or virtual machine. For information about the double space requirement, see Destination Datastore Space Consumption.
- Verify that the seed vApps or virtual machines exist in the target site.
- Before starting a replication using a seed, in the target site you must power off the seed virtual machines, because they are unregistered from the target VMware Cloud Director and vCenter Server inventories. If the new replication fails, the virtual machine files and disks remain on the datastore. For the virtual machine to appear in the inventories, locate the .vmx file of the virtual machine, manually import the virtual machine in the vCenter Server inventory, and import it to the VMware Cloud Director inventory.
Procedure
Results
What to do next
You can monitor the progress of the replication task by clicking Replication Tasks in the left pane.