You can replicate a VM Group by creating a recovery target and recovery group. VMs are backed up and replicated according to the settings in the recovery group.
You can replicate from streaming backups or VMware IntelliSnap backups:
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From streaming backups, VMs can be replicated to all supported hypervisors. For more information, see Cross-Platform Feature Support.
From VMware IntelliSnap backups, VMs can be replicated to VMware using VMware Continuous Replication Using VAIO.
When you configure replication for a VM group, you can add VMs to an existing recovery group if one exists, or you can create a new recovery group.
Before You Begin
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Verify that you have a source hypervisor and a destination hypervisor for the recovery group.
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Review the configuration options for adding source and destination hypervisors, creating a recovery target, and configuring a recovery group:
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Create a recovery target for the destination site.
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For traditional replication, virtual machines must have been backed up at least once to be added to a recovery group.
This requirement does not apply for snapshot replication.
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For Amazon destinations, when replication uses an Amazon instance as the VSA proxy and does not specify a bucket, you must provide guest instance credentials for each guest instance on the Override options page for the recovery group, including the domain or computer name, username, and password.
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For Hyper-V to Azure Stack Hub recovery groups, you cannot use VMs that contain user-created snapshots as a source for replication. Replication jobs fail if the source VM contains user-created snapshots.
Procedure
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From the navigation pane, go to Protect > Virtualization.
The Virtual machines page appears.
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On the VM groups tab, in the row for the VM group, click the action button
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The Configure recovery group page appears.
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On the Content tab, enter the required information for the source hypervisor, and then click Next.
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On the Target tab, enter the required information for the destination hypervisor, and then click Next.
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Configure the override settings for some VMs or use the same settings for all VMs:
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To override settings for specific VMs, on the Override options tab, click Yes.
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To change the destination settings for specific VMs, from the Virtual machine list, select the VMs, and then under General Settings, configure the options you want to change.
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Click Next.
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To use the same settings for all VMs, click No.
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On the Summary tab, review the settings you configured, and then click Finish.
Result
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The configuration tool creates a replication schedule and a recovery group that includes the selected source VMs.
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The properties page for a recovery group includes a Recovery monitor that you can use to monitor the replication status and to perform operations.