Configure the replication of the virtual machines of the clustered Workspace ONE Access instance and VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle. Create a protection group and a recovery plan to support failover to the recovery VMware Cloud Foundation instance. Replica virtual machines become active upon failover.

For the following procedure, use the VMware Cloud Foundation Planning and Preparation Workbook.

Procedure

  1. Log in to Site Recovery Manager at https://<srm_fqdn/dr> in the protected VMware Cloud Foundation instance as [email protected].
  2. In the site pair pane, click View details.

    If your peer vCenter Server is in a different Single Sign-On domain, you must enter the login details for the remote vCenter Server.

  3. On the main navigation bar, click Replications.
  4. In the left pane, click Outgoing and click New.

    The Configure replication wizard opens.

  5. On the Target site page, select Auto-assign vSphere Replication server and click Next.

  6. On the Virtual machines page, select the virtual machines according to your VMware Cloud Foundation Planning and Preparation Workbook, and click Next.

  7. On the Target datastore page, configure the following settings, configure the remaining settings according to your VMware Cloud Foundation Planning and Preparation Workbook, and click Next.

    Setting

    Value

    Disk format

    Same as source

    VM storage policy

    Datastore default

  8. On the Replication settings page, configure the settings, configure the remaining settings according to your VMware Cloud Foundation Planning and Preparation Workbook, and click Next.

    Setting

    Value

    Enable point in time instances

    Selected

    Enable network compression for VR data

    Selected

    Enable encryption for VR data

    Deselected
    Note:

    Compression requires additional host CPU resources. Do not activate it if the hosts are over-utilized.

  9. On the Protection group page, select Add to new protection group, enter a protection group name, and click Next.
  10. On the Recovery plan page, select Add to new recovery plan, enter a recovery plan name, and click Next.
  11. On the Ready to complete page, click Finish.