Operational Limits of on
Each instance can support a certain number of protected
virtual machines, protection groups, recovery plans, and concurrent recoveries. You must use
a VPN connection or Direct Connect to access the HTML 5 client.
Protection and Recovery Maximums for
Item | Maximum |
---|---|
Total number of protected virtual machines
per NSX-T based SDDC on ™ on Dell EMC | 4000 During the
initial activation of ,
the service is deployed with one
appliance. When you reach 400 incoming replications for the
SDDC, a second
appliance is provisioned automatically. A third
vSphere Replication appliance
is provisioned when you reach 800 incoming replications, a
fourth appliance is provisioned when you reach 1200 incoming
replications, a fifth appliance is provisioned when you
reach over 1600 replications, and so on. To achieve the 4000
virtual machines scale, you must manually balance the
replications between the different vSphere
Replication nodes.You must manually add
additional servers to your on-premises
environment, see Deploying Additional Servers. To
achieve the 4000 virtual machines scale, you must have
vSphere 8.0, vSphere Replication
8.6 and later, and VMware Cloud on Dell
EMC SDDC version 1.20 and later.
vSphere Replication 8.4 and
later uses only embedded database and requires additional
configuration to enable the support of a maximum of 4000
replications. See https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2102463. |
Maximum number of protected virtual machines per
appliance (through embedded
server). | 400 |
Maximum number of protected virtual machines per
server. | 400 |
Total number of virtual machines per
protection group | 1000 |
Total number of recovery plans | 250 |
Total number of protection groups per recovery
plan | 250 |
. Maximum number of protected virtual machines
per vSphere Replication appliance on vSAN Express
storage | 1000 |
Bidirectional Protection
If you establish a bidirectional protection,
in which site B serves as the recovery site for site A and at the same time site A
serves as the recovery site for site B, limits apply across both sites, and not per
site. In a bidirectional implementation, you can protect a different number of
virtual machines on each site, but the total number of protected virtual machines
across both sites cannot exceed the limits.
For example, if you protect 2600 virtual
machines using from site A to site B,
you can use vSphere Replication to protect a maximum of 1400 virtual machines from
site B to site A. If you are using for a bidirectional protection, you can protect a
maximum of 4000 virtual machines across both sites.
IP Customization Maximums for
If you implement IP customization for
recovered virtual machines, you can configure a maximum of one IP address for each
NIC, using DHCP, static IPv4, or static IPv6. For static IPv4 or IPv6 addresses, you
provide the following information per NIC:
- 1 IP address
- Subnet information
- 1 gateway server address
- 2 DNS servers (primary and secondary)
You also set 2 WINS addresses for DHCP or
IPv4, on Windows virtual machines only.
Recovery Point Objective lower
than 15 minutes
For information about Recovery Point
Objective (RPO) lower than 15 minutes, see Recovery Point Objective in the
vSphere Replication
Administration
guide.