As a provider, to modify the replication settings of the replication policies assigned to VMware Cloud Director organizations, edit any existing replication policy, including the Default Policy.
Prerequisites
- Verify that VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.7 or later is deployed in the cloud site for finer control over the allowed on-premises destination of the protection, restraining tenants from protecting to on-premises sites.
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Verify that you can access VMware Cloud Director Availability as a provider. For more information, see Accessing the VMware Cloud Director Availability Provider Portal.
Procedure
- In the left pane under Configuration, click Policies.
- In the Policies page, select a replication policy then click Edit.
- In the Edit Policy window, modify the following replication policy settings then click Apply.
Option Description Policy name Edit the policy name, entering a unique, case-sensitive name. Incoming migrations To allow incoming migrations, activate the toggle. Outgoing migrations to cloud To allow outgoing migrations, where the destination is a cloud site, activate the toggle. Outgoing migrations to On-Premises To allow outgoing migrations, where the destination site is on-premises, activate the toggle. Incoming protections To allow incoming protections, activate the toggle. Outgoing protections to cloud To allow outgoing protections, where the destination is a cloud site, activate the toggle. Outgoing protections to On-Premises To allow outgoing protections, where the destination site is on-premises, activate the toggle. Custom SLA settings To allow custom SLA settings per replication, activate the toggle. Alternatively, to allow only the SLA profiles to set the SLA settings, deactivate the toggle. Allow advanced retention rules If incoming protections are activated, to allow advanced retention rules for protections for configuring the number of rotated instances and their time distance spread apart, activate the toggle. Max rotated instances per protection If incoming protections are activated, enter the maximum number of rotated instances per protection, up to 24. Max stored instances per protection If incoming protections are activated, enter the maximum number of stored instances per protection, up to 24. Minimum allowed RPO If incoming protections are activated, set the minimum allowed RPO by using the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) slider or by clicking the time ranges. Note: For shorter RPO, follow the recommendations for lowering the occurrence of RPO violations for the protection, by using all-flash storage and see Replicating workloads.With short RPO, even when meeting these recommendations, an I/O intensive protected workload can still cause RPO violations.
Allow organizations to modify Events and Notifications settings To allow tenants control of the event notification, activate the toggle. Limit the number of configured replications If incoming migrations or incoming protections or both are activated, enter the maximum number of replications. Bandwidth throttling To allow bandwidth throttling, activate the toggle then enter the maximum throughput per each On-Premises to Cloud Director Replication Appliance. After you modify the value, the new value takes effect after 30 minutes.
