To enable replications from the cloud to the on-premises site, in the on-premises appliance you must configure the local placement settings.

Follow this procedure only if you skipped Configure local placement now during the initial setup wizard of the On-Premises to Cloud Director Replication Appliance. If configuring On-Premises to Cloud vCenter Replication Appliance skip this chapter and see Installing and configuring both appliances for vSphere DR and migration.

Note: When using replication seed, the datastores of the seed disks are reused and the network connections of the original virtual machine are reapplied.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the management interface of the appliance.
    1. In a Web browser, go to https://Appliance-IP-address/ui/admin.
    2. Select Appliance login or SSO login and enter the root or the single sign-on user credentials.
    3. Click Login.
  2. In the left pane under Configuration, click Settings.
  3. Under Site settings, next to Placement to newly recovered VMs on this site click Edit.
  4. Complete the Configure Placement wizard.
    1. On the VM Folder page, select the destination location for storing the recovered virtual machines and click Next.
    2. On the Compute Resource page, select the destination compute resource for the recovered virtual machines and click Next.
    3. On the Default Network page, optionally select the default network that the virtual machines automatically connect to after their failover and click Next.
      If you skip selecting a default network, the incoming virtual machine replications are recovered with their NIC adapters disconnected. The supported networks types are: standard networks, distributed port groups, and NSX networks (opaque networks).
    4. On the Datastore page, select the datastore in which to store the replicated virtual machines and their disk files and click Next.
      Datastore clusters are not supported for the on-premises local placement and the clusters do not show for selection.
    5. On the Ready To Complete page, verify that the selected placement configuration is correct and click Finish.

Results

The Placement to newly recovered VMs on this site section expands, showing the placement configuration.

What to do next

You can start creating and managing replications from the on-premises site by accessing one of the interfaces:

  • Log in to the on-premises vCenter Server instance by using vSphere Client, authenticate with the single sign-on administrator credentials then access the VMware Cloud Director Availability vSphere Client Plug-In. For more information, see the User Guide document.
  • Navigate to the Public Service Endpoint of the cloud site and log in by using VMware Cloud Directororganization administrator credentials.