Configure Replication Workflow

The workflow configures replication for a virtual machine from the local site to another vCenter Server site.

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 VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator client as an administrator.
2. Navigate to Library > Workflows.
3. In the Filter box, enter Configure 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. Configure Replication Workflow Inputs

   Input			Description
   Source Site	Site		Local vCenter Server site.
   Source VM	Source VM		Virtual machine to be replicated.
   Target Site	Site		Remote vCenter Server site.
   Target Datastore	Per disk configuration		Configure the storage policy and datastore per virtual disk. The elements in the array must correspond to each other in order. For example, the first element from Disk format per disk must correspond to the first element in VM disks for replication and so on.
   	Per disk configuration enabled	VM disks for replication	Array of disks to be replicated to the remote site.
   		VM disks excluded from replication	Array of disks to be excluded from the replication to the remote site.
   		Disk format per disk	Virtual disk format and provisioning type per virtual disk. The array size must be the same as the array size in VM disks for replication.
   		Storage profile per disk	Virtual machine storage policy profile per virtual disk. The array size must be the same as the array size in VM disks for replication.
   		Target datastore per disk	Remote datastore to replicate to, per virtual disk. The array size must be the same as the array size in VM disks for replication.
   	Per disk configuration disabled	Disk format	Virtual disk format and provisioning type.
   		Storage profile	Virtual machine storage policy profile.
   		Target Datastore	Remote datastore to replicate to.
   	Use Default Replication Seed		Use the default virtual machine disk files for an initial synchronization.
   	Auto replicate new disks		Automatically include new disks in the replication.
   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 the CPU use.
   	Point in time instances		Maximum supported number of snapshots per virtual machine is 24.
   	Enable encryption for VR data		Enabling vSphere Replication data encryption.
   MPIT (If Points in time instances is enabled)	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.