Performing a Recovery
with
vSphere
Replication
vSphere
Replication
With
vSphere
Replication
, you can recover virtual machines that were
successfully replicated at the target site.
vSphere
Replication
performs a sequence of steps to recover replicated
virtual machines.
- vSphere Replicationprepares for the recovery operation.
- If you perform a synchronization of the latest changes,vSphere Replicationchecks that the source site is available and source virtual machine is powered off before recovering the virtual machine on the target site. ThenvSphere Replicationsynchronizes the changes from the source to the target site.
- If you skip the synchronization and recover with the latest data available, for example, if the source site is not available,vSphere Replicationuses the latest available data at the target site.
- vSphere Replicationrebuilds the replicated.vmdkfiles.
- vSphere Replicationreconfigures the newly replicated virtual machine with the correct disk paths.
- vSphere Replicationregisters the virtual machine withvCenter Serverat the target site.
You can recover one virtual
machine at a time in
Incoming
replications on the
Replications
tab at
the target site. Optionally, you can power on the recovered virtual machine.
The network devices of the recovered virtual machine are disconnected. You
might need to configure the recovered virtual machine to render it fully
operational.
If you enabled the saving of point in time instances,
those instances are converted to snapshots of the recovered virtual machine. You can use
the
vSphere
Client
to revert to a snapshot from the list.