VMware Cloud Director Availability™ is a Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) solution. VMware Cloud Director Availability On-Premises Appliance protects and migrates vSphere workloads between the on-premises vCenter Server instance and either a provider vCenter Server site or a multi-tenant cloud site backed by VMware Cloud Director™.
VMware Cloud Director Availability is available through the Partner Connect Program. This solution provides multi-tenant workload protection and recovery between various cloud sites and with on-premises
vCenter Server sites. Choose one of the two
VMware Cloud Director Availability deployment types, depending on whether the destination cloud site is backed by
VMware Cloud Director:
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- On-premises site and Cloud Director site:
- Replication management and monitoring between on-premises sites and multi-tenant cloud sites backed by VMware Cloud Director, by using a VMware Cloud Director Availability On-Premises Appliance at each on-premises vCenter Server site. For information about this architecture, see Deployment architecture for the On-Premises to Cloud Director Replication Appliance.
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- vSphere DR and migration between vCenter Server sites:
- The VMware Cloud Director Availability On-Premises Appliance deployment file contains an additional appliance role that can replicate between an on-premises vCenter Server site and a cloud vCenter Server site. For this, during the initial on-premises appliance deployment, select its role as On-Premises to Cloud vCenter Replication Appliance. Then pair the new on-premises appliance with a vCenter Replication Management Appliance, deployed, licensed, and metered in the cloud vCenter Server instance. For information about this architecture, see Deployment architecture and requirements for vSphere DR and migration.
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- On-Premises to Cloud Director Replication Appliance:
- Pairs with a cloud site backed by VMware Cloud Director. For more information, see Installing and configuring the On-Premises to Cloud Director Replication Appliance.
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- On-Premises to Cloud vCenter Replication Appliance:
- Pairs to a cloud vCenter Server site, running vCenter Replication Management Appliance. For more information, see Installing and configuring both appliances for vSphere DR and migration.
As a provider, in the cloud vCenter Server site deploy:
- vCenter Replication Management Appliance
- Pairs to another cloud vCenter Server site, running vCenter Replication Management Appliance. Allows pairing from On-Premises to Cloud vCenter Replication Appliance. For more information, see Installing and configuring both appliances for vSphere DR and migration.
VMware Cloud Director Availability provides:
- Test failover or failover on-premises workloads to the cloud site and failback of recovered in the cloud workloads back to the on-premises site.
- Migration of protected virtual machines in the cloud site back to the on-premises site and vice versa.
- Self-service protection and failover workflows per virtual machine.
- One vApp or virtual machine replicates to a one destination site. That is, the same source workload can replicate only on a single destination.
- Each deployment can serve as both a source and a recovery site. There are no dedicated source and destination sites.
- Symmetrical replication flow that can be started from either the source or the recovery site.
- Built-in secure tunneling that requires no incoming allowed ports in the firewall in the on-premises site.
- Built-in end-to-end TLS encryption of the replication traffic that is terminated at each VMware Cloud Director Availability appliance.
- Optional compression of the replication traffic.
- VMware Cloud Director Availability vSphere Client Plug-In integration with the existing vSphere environment.
- Support for multiple vCenter Server and ESXi versions.
- Single installation package, distributed as a Photon-based virtual appliance.