Change Replication Settings
You can edit replication settings to modify how long
Site
Recovery Manager
waits for the creation of virtual machine placeholders to finish. - In thevSphere Client, click .
- On theSite Recoveryhome tab, select a site pair, and clickView Details.
- In the left pane, click.
- Select a site, and clickEditto change the settings.OptionActionSet the time interval in minutes between two executions of the cleanup task for archived recovery settings. The default value is 1440 minutes.Enter a new value in thereplication.archiveRecoverySettingsCleanupIntervaltext box.Set the time duration in days to keep the archived recovery settings. The default value is 30 days.Enter a new value in thereplication.archiveRecoverySettingsLifetimetext box.Exclude CD/DVD and floppy media devices from protection. The default value is true.To deactivate the setting, move the slider to change the value ofreplication.autoExcludeMediaDevicesto false.Automatically try to select placeholder datastores. The default value is true.To deactivate the setting, move the slider to change the value ofreplication.automaticPlaceholderDatastoreSelectionto false.Set the minimum amount of free disk space available in megabytes for an automatic placeholder datastore selection. The default value is 50 MB.To change the amount of free disk space, enter a new value in thereplication.automaticPlaceholderDatastoreSelectionMinFreeSpacetext box.Use minimum CPUs and memory resources when creating a placeholder virtual machine. The default value is false.Move the slider to change the valuereplication.createPlaceholderVmWithMinResourcesto true.Skip the check for non-protected replica virtual machines while deactivating the protection site during Planned Migration. The default value is false.Move the slider to change the valuereplication.disablePiggybackVmsCheckDuringDeactivateto true.Change the timeout in seconds to wait when creating a placeholder virtual machine. The default value is 300 seconds.Enter a new value in thereplication.placeholderVmCreationTimeouttext box.Keep individual VM inventory mappings in case of a site-wide inventory mappings change. If the value is set to false, in case of a site-wide inventory mappings changeSite Recovery Manageroverrides the original individual VM inventory mappings. If the value is set to true, Site Recovery Manager keeps the original individual VM inventory mappings until explicit change or VM protection recreation. The default value is false.Move the slider to change the value ofreplication.keepOverridesOnInvMappingChangeto true.Keep individual VM inventory mappings in case of production VM relocation. You can configure individual inventory mappings on virtual machines through Configure Protection. If the value is set to false, in case of a production VM relocationSite Recovery Manageralways updates the VM protection uppon inventory mappings for the new production VM location. If the value is set to true, Site Recovery Manager keeps the original individual VM inventory mappings until explicit change or VM protection recreation. The default value is false.Move the slider to change the value ofreplication.keepOverridesOnVmPlacementChangeto true.Activate or deactivate the preservation of VM Tags on the recovery site for recovered virtual machines. The default value is true.Move the slider to change the value ofreplication.preserveVmTagsto false.To attach tags to recovered virtual machines on the recovery site, the setting must be set to true on the recovery site.Update VM protection in case of inventory mappings change. The default value is true.Move the slider to change the value ofreplication.updateVmProtectionOnInvMappingChangeto false.Update VM protection in case of production VM relocation by applying the inventory mappings on the new production VM location. The default value is true.Move the slider to change the value ofreplication.updateVmProtectionOnPlacementChangeto false.
- To save your changes, clickOK.