Change vSphere
Replication Settings
vSphere
Replication
SettingsYou can adjust global settings to change how
Site
Recovery Manager
interacts with vSphere
Replication
. - 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 modify thevSphere Replicationsettings.OptionDescriptionAllowSite Recovery Managerto recover virtual machines that are managed by other solutions. The default value is false.vSphere Replicationallows solutions to manage the replication of virtual machines. By default,Site Recovery Manageronly recovers the virtual machines that it manages. To allowSite Recovery Managerto recover virtual machines whose replications are managed by other solutions, move the slider ofvrReplication.allowOtherSolutionTagInRecoveryto true.Keep older multiple point in time (PIT) snapshots during recovery. The default value is true.If you configurevSphere Replicationto take PIT snapshots of protected virtual machines,Site Recovery Manageronly recovers the most recent snapshot when you perform a recovery. To recover older PIT snapshots during recovery, use the slider to set the value ofvrReplication.preserveMpitImagesAsSnapshotsto true.Change the timeout period for reverse replication during reprotect operationsType a new value in thevrReplication.reverseReplicationTimeouttext box. The value that you enter must be half of the timeout time that you want to set. The default value is 7200 and corresponds to a working synchronization timeout period of 14400 seconds. Change this value if you experience timeout errors whenvSphere Replicationreverses replication during reprotect operations.Change the timeout period forvSphere Replicationsynchronization operations. The default value is 7200.Enter a new value in thevrReplication.synchronizationTimeouttext box. The value that you enter must be half of the timeout time that you want to set. The default value is 7200 and corresponds to a working synchronization timeout period of 14400 seconds. Change this value if you experience timeout errors whenvSphere Replicationsynchronizes virtual machines on the recovery site.
- To save your changes, clickOK.