Grouping virtual machines in a vApp
replication to the Cloud Director site
For on-premises to cloud replications, you can create a collection of virtual
machines in a single vApp, managed and replicated as a single unit. You can specify the
virtual machines boot order, boot delays, and protect or migrate them as a single vApp
replication in the destination cloud site.
Group multiple virtual machines in a vApp replication, with the following virtual
machines relations:
- The boot order works from the top to the bottom.
- By default, there is no set boot delay. The start wait is the time passed after the boot of the previous virtual machine.
Once created, the vApp replication supports
the following actions.
- Modifying the vApp replication settings, the vApp settings like delay and boot order, and the remaining settings of the replication.
- Removing virtual machines from the vApp replication.
- VMware Cloud Director Availability4.3 and later supports adding of other virtual machines to an existing vApp replication.
Partial Failover
VMware Cloud Director
Availability
supports performing replication operations for the
entire vApp or for one or more virtual machines from the vApp.Failing over only some of the virtual
machines from a vApp replication, in the destination site results in two vApp
replications with the same name. The first vApp replication contains the failed over
virtual machines and the other vApp replication contains the remaining virtual
machines that are not failed over.