To configure vSphere Replication, follow these steps:
- From the vSphere client, select the VM you need to replicate and select All Site Recovery Actions and Configure Replication.
- The new UI will be launched.
- First, the wizard will validate whether the VM can be configured for replication.
- In the next step, you can select the replication target. As a replication target, you can use either the same vCenter server (the VM will be replicated to another local VM) or a remote vCenter server (the VM will be replicated to another site).
- In the target datastore, you have to select on which datastore the data will be replicated.
- The last step is to configure your replication option, especially Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and point in time snapshots, should you wish to use them:
Once the replication is configured, you can access the vSphere Replication UI to see the status of all replicated VMs and their last synchronization, and you have an option to recover from the replica:
