Reconfigure Replication Workflow

With this workflow, you can change the settings of a replication, including reconfiguring a replication on new virtual hard disks and enabling the default seed to use a replica disk in the VM folder.

Prerequisites

• Verify that the vSphere Replication appliance is deployed at the source and the target sites.
• To enable the quiescing of virtual machines that run Linux guest OS, install the latest version of VMware Tools on each Linux machine that you plan to replicate.

Procedure

1. Log in to vRealize Orchestrator client as an administrator.
2. Navigate to Workflows > Library.
3. In the search box, enter Reconfigure Replication and press Enter.
4. Click the workflow and click Run.
5. Enter the input parameters that the workflow requires, and click Run.

   Table 1. Reconfigure Replication Workflow Inputs

   Input			Description
   Source	Replication		The replication you want to reconfigure.
   Replication Settings	Disks	Use default replication seeds	Use the default virtual machine disk files for an initial synchronization.
   		Enabled Disks for Replication	Array of disks to be replicated to the remote site.
   		Excluded Disks From Replication	Array of disks to be excluded from the replication to the remote site.
   		Target Datastore for All Enabled Disks	Remote datastore to replicate to. When you change this datastore, all disks move to the new target datastore.
   	Details	RPO in minutes	Recovery point objective in minutes (default value is 240).
   		Guest OS quiescing	Enabling OS quiescing improves data consistency, but limits RPO time.
   		Network compression	Enabling replication data compression reduces the network bandwidth, but increases CPU utilization.
   		Point in time instances	Maximum supported number of snapshots per virtual machine is 24.
   	MPIT	Instances per day (multiplied by number of days should not exceed 24)	Number of snapshots taken per day.
   		Number of days	Number of days for which snapshots are kept.