{"id":4066,"date":"2014-06-18T10:28:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T14:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscolotti.us\/?p=4066"},"modified":"2014-09-17T17:00:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T21:00:51","slug":"how-to-configure-multiple-machines-for-vcloud-hybrid-service-disaster-recovery-replication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriscolotti.us\/vmware\/how-to-configure-multiple-machines-for-vcloud-hybrid-service-disaster-recovery-replication\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Configure Multiple Machines For vCloud Air Disaster Recovery Replication"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n There is something people have asked as I have done multiple demonstrations of the vCloud Air Disaster Recovery offering is “Can we configure multiple machines for replication?”. \u00a0Well, with the help of Akeem Jenkins and some lab testing we found out the answer is actually YES. \u00a0To be honest this was not something I was told would work when the offering went GA, but the cool thing is you can in fact select multiple machines for replication. \u00a0Like anything there is some things about it I want to point out. \u00a0This assumes you have already setup the correct vSphere Replication 5.6 Appliance for replication to vCloud Air, and you have a vCloud Air Disaster Recovery account.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Well it’s surprisingly simple actually. \u00a0Just highlight the group you want and right click to select ‘Configure Replication’ <\/a> You will see a validation check <\/a> Continue configuring with the normal options to a Cloud Provider and when complete you will se all selected machines in the task pane configuring <\/a> You can also use the multi select to stop replication on multiple machines at once, however you can see the options for fail over and test are not available when you multi select, only re-configure, stop, and pause. \u00a0You can always however use the vCloud Air API extensions and scripting to call the failover option on multiple machines. <\/a><\/p>\n UPDATED 6\/24\/2014:<\/strong><\/p>\n I did try to multi select and configure for Data Seeding and it also appears to work! \u00a0You get a side by side selection process to choose and match the source to the destination seed. \u00a0However, the same things originally apply such as they will all use the same RPO.<\/p>\n\n
So How do You Do It?<\/h3>\n