For the on-premises to cloud replications, you can specify the destination network settings of the vApp or virtual machine. After performing a migration, failover, or a test failover, VMware Cloud Director Availability attaches the selected network settings in the destination cloud site.

For the on-premises to cloud replications, the network settings are provided as vApp > VM > NIC and you set the network settings at the NIC level.

Prerequisites

  • Verify that VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.6 or later is deployed in both the on-premises site and in the cloud site for mapping the source and the destination networks per selected replications, similarly to cloud to cloud replications.
  • Verify that you can access VMware Cloud Director Availability as a tenant or as a provider. For more information, see Accessing VMware Cloud Director Availability.

Procedure

  1. To configure their destination network settings, select one or more on-premises to cloud replications and click All actions > Recovery settings.
  2. In the Recovery settings window, configure the destination network settings of the selected replications.
    1. In the left pane, click Networks.
      Note: Networks is available for on-premises to cloud replications since version 4.6.
      Option Description
      Source networks See the name of the networks, and the virtual machine network interface cards (NIC).
      Target networks Click None (not assigned) and select the target network to connect to in the destination site after a migration, failover, or test failover.
    2. In the left pane, click Nics and expand a network adapter under a virtual machine.
      Option Description
      • vApp
      • #VMs
      		 To see the number of the virtual machines and their NICs, expand the name of the parent vApp then expand each NIC. Then for each NIC, select an organization VDC network to connect to.
      Status To activate the connection for that NIC to the target organization VDC network, select the Connect at Power On check box.
      State Select the primary NIC for each virtual machine.
      MAC Address To reset the MAC address of the expanded NIC in the destination site, from the drop-down menu select Reset.
      IP Address
      • DHCP select to obtain an IP address for the expanded NIC when the connected destination network is configured with a DHCP server.
      • Static - IP POOL select to obtain an IP address for the expanded NIC from an IP pool in the destination network. To commit the IP address changes to the virtual machine guest OS, click Guest customization.
      • Static - Manual select to enter a static IP address to the expanded NIC. To commit the IP address changes to the virtual machine guest OS, click Guest customization.
      • None selected by default, no IP addressing mode is specified.
    For information about Guest customization, see Configure recovery settings and guest customization.
  3. Click Apply.

Results

For the selected replications, after a successful on-premises to cloud migration, failover, or a test failover, VMware Cloud Director Availability replicates the workload to the destination cloud site. Then VMware Cloud Director Availability attaches the selected network settings to the destination vApp or virtual machine.