In the vCloud Availability Portal, you can protect or migrate workloads by replicating vApps or virtual machines.
Replication Types: Protection and Migration
- To protect a vApp or a virtual machine from one organization to another, and keep the workload running in the source site, you configure a protection.
- To migrate a vApp or a virtual machine to a remote organization, and run the workload in the destination site, you configure a migration.
Replicated Workload Settings
vCloud Availability preserves and periodically synchronizes the following
vCloud Director settings that accompany the vApps or the virtual machines in a replication. After completing a protection or a migration,
vCloud Availability reads these settings from the source
vCloud Director site and applies them to the destination
vCloud Director site at the end of the replication workflow.
Table 1.
Replicated vApp Settings
| vApp Settings |
Replicated in vCloud Availability 3.0 |
Replicated in vCloud Availability 3.5 |
| vApp Name |
Yes |
Yes |
| Description |
Yes |
Yes |
| Leases |
- |
- |
| Starting and Stopping VMs Configuration |
- |
- |
| Мetadata |
Yes |
Yes |
| vApp Networks |
- |
Yes |
Table 2.
Replicated VM Settings
| VM Settings |
Replicated in vCloud Availability 3.0 |
Replicated in vCloud Availability 3.5 |
| VM Name |
Yes |
Yes |
| Computer name |
Yes |
Yes |
| Description |
Yes |
Yes |
| Hot add settings |
- |
- |
| Guest OS Customization |
- |
Yes |
| Guest properties |
- |
Yes |
| Resource allocation |
- |
- |
| Metadata |
Yes |
Yes |
