Modify the settings of any existing incoming or outgoing replications. The protections allow modifying RPO, instances retention rules, quiesce, 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 provider. For more information, see Accessing VMware Cloud Director Availability.
Procedure
- In the left pane, choose a replication direction by clicking Incoming Replications or Outgoing Replications.
- Select a replication with a Green overall health.
- Click .
- 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), alternatively for protections to and from cloud sites backed by VMware Cloud Director, you can also select an SLA profile, if configured.
- Select the Retention policy for point in time instances . Define rules for instance retention over period of time.
- Optionally, Activate quiesce.
- Optionally, activate the Compress replication traffic toggle.
- For protections to and from cloud sites backed by VMware Cloud Director you can also select the VDC policy settings from the following drop-down menus:
- VDC VM placement policy
- VDC VM sizing policy
Migration - Optionally, activate the Compress replication traffic toggle.
- For protections to and from cloud sites backed by VMware Cloud Director you can also select the VDC policy settings from the following drop-down menus:
- VDC VM placement policy
- VDC VM sizing policy
Results
In the Tasks pane, a Reconfigure replication settings task runs.
