VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.6

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Store an instance

To retain rotated instances permanently, you store an instance.
VMware Cloud Director Availability
 retains the stored instance until no longer marked as stored or until you manually delete it.
VMware Cloud Director Availability
 rotates the rotated instances to preserve the configured maximum number of rotated instances per replication. You can retain a configurable number of stored instances permanently.
  1. In the left pane, choose a replication direction by clicking
    Incoming Replications
     or
    Outgoing Replications
    .
  2. Choose whether to store an instance for a virtual machine or for a vApp replication.
    • To store an instance for a virtual machine replication, in the top-right corner of the page click the
      VM
       button.
    • To store an instance for a vApp replication, in the top-right corner of the page click the
      vApp
       button.
  3. In the bottom pane, click the
    Instances
     tab.
  4. To store a rotated instance, select it and click
    Store
    .
    You can subject the stored instance back to automatic retention by clicking
    Don't Store
    .
You stored the selected instances and they remain available to restore to until the replication is active. The remaining rotated instances continue to be rotated and created to preserve the configured maximum number of rotated instances per replication.
You can delete the stored instances to maintain the configured maximum number of stored instances per replication. For more information, see Delete an instance.

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