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Recipe: Create a VMware Replication Job with Mapping
Expected deliverables:
A Veeam Replication Job to replicate VMware VMs from a source ESXi host to a target ESXi host, by leveraging existing VM replicas on the target datastore.
Time to complete: 5 minutes
Ingredients:
- vSphere infrastructure must have been added to the backup infrastructure and properly configured. That means adding source and target vSphere infrastructure, vCenter Server instances (recommended) or standalone ESXi hosts.
- At least one VMware Proxy server for onsite replication scenario or two Backup Proxies for offsite replication scenario.
- A Backup repository for replica metadata. Deduplicating appliances and Scale-out Backup repositories aren’t supported
- Valid Replica VMs in the offsite backup repository.
Before you start:
The target datastore must have enough free space to store disks of replicated VMs.
Assumptions:
It’s assumed that you already have a Veeam Backup Server fully working in your environment.
Method:
- On the Home view. On the ribbon, click Replication Job > Virtual machine > VMware vSphere.
- At the Name step , specify a job name and description. Select the Replica seeding (for low bandwidth DR sites) checkbox. Click Next.
- At the Virtual Machines step, select VMs and/or VM containers that you want to replicate.
- Click Add, then in the Add Object window select the necessary VMs or VM containers and click Add.
- At the Destination step, select a target host or cluster, resource pool, vm folder and datastore for replicas. Click Next.
- At the Job Settings step, select a backup repository that will store metadata for VM replicas.
- In the Replica name suffix field, enter a suffix that will be added to the original VM names
- In the Restore points to keep field, specify the number of restore points that the job must maintain (Max 28).
- At the Data Transfer step:
- Select the Source and Target proxy servers (recommended for offsite replication) or leave Automatic selection (default).
- If you want to use WAN Acceleration, click in Through built-in WAN accelerators and select a Source and a Target WAN Accelerator.
- Otherwise, leave Direct option selected and click Next.
- At the Seeding step, check Map replicas to existing VMs and use one the following options:
- Either click Detect to autodiscover existing copies of VMs that you plan to replicate or select an original VM from the list and click Edit if you want to map a VM manually
- When done, click Next.
- At the Guest Processing step, keep Enable application-aware processing option unchecked. Click Next.
- At the Schedule step, select to run the replication job manually or schedule the job to run on a regular basis.
- At the Summary step, review details of the replication job. If you want to start the job right after you close the wizard, select the Run the job when I click Finish check box, otherwise leave the check box unselected. Then click Finish to close the wizard
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