Using VMware Live Site Recovery with a shared recovery site is subject to some limitations.
When you configure VMware Live Site Recovery to use a shared recovery site, VMware Live Site Recovery supports the same operations as it does in a standard one-to-one configuration.
- VMware Live Site Recovery supports point-to-point replication. VMware Live Site Recovery does not support replication to multiple targets, even in a multi-site configuration.
- For each shared recovery site customer, you must install VMware Live Site Recovery Server once at the customer site and again at the recovery site.
- You must specify the same VMware Live Site Recovery extension ID when you install the VMware Live Site Recovery Server instances on the protected site and on the shared recovery site. For example, you can install the first pair of sites with the default VMware Live Site Recovery extension ID, then install subsequent pairs of sites with custom extension IDs.
- Each VMware Live Site Recovery Server instance on the protected site and on the shared recovery site requires its own database.
- A single shared recovery site can support a maximum of ten protected sites. You can run concurrent recoveries from multiple sites. See Operational Limits of VMware Live Site Recovery for the number of concurrent recoveries that you can run with array-based replication and with vSphere Replication.
- In a large VMware Live Site Recovery environment, you might experience timeout errors when powering on virtual machines on a shared recovery site. See Timeout Errors When Powering on Virtual Machines on a Shared Recovery Site.
- When connecting to VMware Live Site Recovery on the shared recovery site, every customer can see all of the VMware Live Site Recovery extensions that are registered with the shared recovery site, including company names and descriptions. All customers of a shared recovery site can have access to other customers’ folders and potentially to other information at the shared recovery site.
