VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.6

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Modify the settings of vApp replications to the Cloud Director site

After grouping virtual machines in an on-premises to cloud replication, you can modify the resulting vApp name and the grouped virtual machines order of boot and their boot delay. Also, you can modify the vApp replication settings, exclude or include replicated virtual machines in an existing vApp.
  • Verify that
    VMware Cloud Director Availability
     4.3 or later is deployed in both the source on-premises site and in the destination cloud site.
  1. Select a vApp, replicated from an on-premises site to a Cloud Director site.
  2. To modify the vApp settings, click
    All actions
    vApp Settings
    .
  3. In the
    Edit vApp Settings
     window, configure the vApp settings and click
    Apply
    .
    1. In the
      vApp name
      , modify the name of the vApp.
    2. To change the order of boot of the virtual machines in the vApp, drag and drop them.
    3. To set a boot delay for each virtual machine, under
      Start wait
       enter a number and select seconds or minutes.
  4. To modify the replication settings of the vApp replication, click
    All actions
    Settings
    .
  5. In the
    Edit Replication Settings
     window, configure the settings of the vApp replication and click
    Apply
    .
    1. To change the target recovery point objective (RPO), click the timeline or the preset times.
    2. To enable the retention policy, select it and configure the number of instances and a duration for spreading them.
    3. To activate the quiesce, select the toggle.
    4. To compress the replication traffic, select the toggle.
  6. To exclude replicated virtual machines from vApp replications, on the top of the page under
    Grouping
    , click
    VM
    .
    1. To exclude a virtual machine replication from the vApp, select the replication to exclude and click
      Delete
      .
      You can later add this excluded virtual machine replication to a new vApp replication. Alternatively, you can later add this virtual machine to an existing vApp replication for
      VMware Cloud Director Availability
       4.3 and later, as in the next step.
    2. In the
      Delete
       window, to confirm click
      Delete
      .
  7. To add replicated virtual machines to any existing on-premises to cloud vApp replication, create a replication.
    1. To create an on-premises to cloud replication, click
      New Protection
       or
      New Migration
      .
    2. On the
      vCenter VMs
       page, select one or more virtual machines for adding in an existing vApp replication.
    3. Select
      Group VMs to a single vApp
       and click
      Next
      .
    4. On the
      vApp Settings
       page, to add the selected virtual machines to an existing vApp replication, in the
      vApp name
       text box enter the existing vApp name and click
      Next
      .
      After entering an existing vApp name, under
      vApp name
       a
      vApp group '
      name
      ' has
      number
       VM(s) already
       message shows the count of virtual machines in the vApp.
VMware Cloud Director Availability
 replicates the virtual machines from the source on-premises site as a vApp in the destination cloud site with the modified settings.

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