VMware Cloud Director Availability in the Cloud Director site

The VMware Cloud Director Availability™ solution provides replication and failover capabilities for VMware Cloud Director™ and for vCenter Server workloads at both the virtual machine and at the vApp level.

VMware Cloud Director Availability is available through the Partner Connect Program. The solution provides multi-tenant workload recovery to cloud sites and to on-premises environments. VMware Cloud Director Availability provides:

• One cloud site supports multiple tenants. Each deployment can serve as both a replication source and as a recovery site. There are no dedicated source and destination sites.
• Replication management and monitoring from an on-premises site to a cloud site and reverse.
• Replication and recovery of vApps and virtual machines between VMware Cloud Director sites.
• Failback of recovered in the cloud workloads to the on-premises site.
• Migration of protected virtual machines in the cloud site back to the on-premises site.
• Self-service protection and failover workflows per virtual machine.
• Symmetrical replication flow that can be started from either the source or the recovery site.
• One single-site VMware Cloud Director Availability instance can migrate virtual machines and vApps between Virtual Data Centers belonging to one VMware Cloud Director organization.
• Multiple VMware Cloud Director Availability instances can coexist in one VMware Cloud Director.
• Built-in secure tunneling that requires no incoming allowed ports in the firewall in the on-premises site.
• The cloud site TCP tunneling allows for optional high availability of the incoming/outgoing traffic entry point.
• Built-in end-to-end TLS encryption of the replication traffic that is terminated at each Replicator Appliance instance.
• Optional compression of the replication traffic for reducing the network load on the disaster recovery infrastructure.
• VMware Cloud Director Availability vSphere Client Plug-In integration with the existing vSphere environment.
• Support for multiple vCenter Server and ESXi versions, including support for migrations from legacy versions.
• A single installation package, distributed as a Photon-based virtual appliance deploys each of the appliances of VMware Cloud Director Availability.