vSphere Replication System
Requirements
The environment in which you run the
vSphere
Replication
virtual appliance must meet certain hardware
requirements. vSphere
Replication
is distributed as a 64-bit virtual appliance packaged in
the .ovf
format. It
is configured to use a dual-core or quad-core CPU, a 16 GB and a 17 GB hard disk, and 8
GB of RAM. Additional vSphere
Replication
servers require 1 GB of RAM. You must deploy the virtual appliance in a
vCenter Server
environment by using the OVF deployment wizard on an
ESXi
host. You must deploy
vSphere
Replication
in the same vCenter Server
inventory where you replicate virtual
machines.vSphere
Replication
consumes negligible CPU and memory on the source host ESXi
and on the
guest OS of the replicated virtual machine. vSphere
Replication
can be deployed with either IPv4 or IPv6 address.
Mixing IP addresses, for example having a single appliance with an IPv4 and an IPv6
address, is not supported. To register as an extension, vSphere
Replication
relies on the VirtualCenter.FQDN
property of the vCenter Server
.
When an IPv6 address is used for vSphere
Replication
, the VirtualCenter.FQDN
property must be set to a fully qualified domain name that can be resolved to an
IPv6 address or to a literal address. When operating with an IPv6 address,
vSphere
Replication
requires that all components in the environment, such
as vCenter Server
and ESXi
hosts are
accessible using the IPv6 address. The operation of
vSphere
Replication
depends on certain services, ports, and external
interfaces. For more information, see Services, Ports, and External Interfaces That the vSphere Replication Virtual
Appliance Uses.