Before you configure replication tasks to the cloud, you configure the connections between your vSphere environment and virtual data centers that belong to your cloud organizations.

You can connect a vCenter Server to multiple virtual data centers, and a virtual data center can be connected to multiple vCenter Server instances.

Prerequisites

Verify that you have user credentials for a cloud organization in which vCloud Director is enabled. Your cloud provider enables the Disaster Recovery to Cloud service per your contract.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the vSphere Client or vSphere Web Client.
  2. On the home page, click Site Recovery and click Open Site Recovery.
  3. Click the New Site Pair button.

    The New Site Pair wizard starts.

  4. Select the first site from the list.
  5. Select the Cloud provider radio button.
  6. To authenticate with the cloud, enter the address of your cloud provider, the organization name, and credentials .

    By default, vSphere Replication uses these credentials to establish a user session to the cloud and for system monitoring purposes. To enable system monitoring, these credentials are stored in the vSphere Replication appliance, unless you select to use another user account for system monitoring.

  7. (Optional) If you do not want to store the credentials that you used for authentication, select the Use a different account for system monitoring check box, and enter the credentials to be used for system monitoring.

    These credentials are encrypted and stored in the vSphere Replication database.

  8. Click Next.

    The New Site Pair wizard displays a list of virtual data centers to which you can connect. If a virtual data center is already connected to the vCenter Server, that data center does not appear in the list.

  9. From the list of virtual data centers, select a target for the connection and click Next.
  10. Review your settings and click Finish.

Results

The connection to the cloud organization appears on the Site Recovery home page.

What to do next

Select the networks on the target site that vSphere Replication must use for recovery operations. See Select Recovery Networks on the Target Virtual Data Center.