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 VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator client as an administrator.
  2. Navigate to Library > Workflows.
  3. In the Filter 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.
    Disks 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 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.
    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 For All Enabled Disks Remote datastore to replicate to. When you change this datastore, all disks move to the new target datastore.
    Use default replication seeds 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 RPO in minutes
    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.
    Enable encryption for VR data Enabling vSphere Replication data encryption.
    Point in time instances Maximum supported number of snapshots per virtual machine is 24.
    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.