This part of the lab is presented as a Hands-on Labs Interactive Simulation. This will allow you to experience steps which are too time-consuming or resource intensive to do live in the lab environment. In this simulation, you can use the software interface as if you are interacting with a live environment.

The orange boxes show where to click, and the left and right arrow keys can also be used to move through the simulation in either direction.

A lot of pre-work has already been completed for this lab to work. The service provider side already has vCloud Director, vCloud Availability, and vSphere Replication installed and configured. Both sides also have production and test networks defined. Now we'll configure the tenant side to use vSphere Replication to replicate a VM to a vCloud Director Org on the service provider side.

1. From the Home screen, click on Hosts and Clusters.
2. Click the Manage tab.
3. Click the vSphere Replication sub tab.

Normally, vSphere Replication is used to replicate VMs between two vCenters. Now we have the option to replicate VMs to a VMware Cloud Provider. In the vSphere Replication section of the Manage tab on vCenter, click the icon to Connect to a Cloud Provider to configure replications.

1. Click the Cloud provider address and type:  vcd-01a.corp.local
2. Click the Organization name and type:  Acme
3. Click the User name and type:  acmeadmin
4. Click the Password and type:  VMware1!
5. Click the Next button.
6. Click the radio button for ACME_PAYG Org.
7. Click the Next button.
8. Click the Finish button.
9. Click the Refresh icon to show the new cloud provider.

Notice the new cloud provider Status shows Missing network settings.

1. Click the ACME_PAYG site
2. Click the icon to Configure target networks for the VDC.
3. Click the Recovery netwrok and click Prod_192.168.210.0
4. Click the Test network and then click Test_192.168.210.0.
5. Click Next.

1. Click the checkbox for Prod_192.168.210.0 in the ACME_PAYG side
2. Click the VM Network in the TenantDC.
3. Click the Add Mappings button
4. Click Next.

1. Click the checkbox for Test_192.168.210.0 in the ACME_PAYG side
2. Click the VM Test Network in the TenantDC.
3. Click the Add Mappings button
4. Click Next.

1. Click the Finish button.
2. Click the Refresh button to refresh the status

1. Click on the CentOS VM in the left-hand navigation pane.
2. Click the Actions dropdown menu.
3. Go to All vSphere Replication Actions and click Configure Replication...

As mentioned previously, vSphere Replication is typically used to replicate VMs between vCenter Servers. But now we have the ability to replicate VMs to VMware Cloud Partners. Since we just configured a cloud provider as a replication target, now we'll configure the CentOS VM to replicate to the cloud provider.

1. Click the radio button for Replicate to a cloud provider.
2. Click Next.
3. Click the ACME_PAYG provider VDC.
4. Click Next.
5. Click the storage dropdown menu to see how you can select from different storage profiles if they're available to you.
6. Click Silver Storage.
7. Click Next.
8. Click the checkbox for Enable quiescing to allow the guest OS to quiesce the filesystem before replication. Network Compression is also an option to lessen network traffic, but we won't use it in this lab.
9. Click Next.
10. Click near the 15 minutes marker to set the RPO to 15 minutes.
11. Click the box to Enable point in time instances. You can configure up to 24 point in time instances for recovery. We'll leave it at the default settings.
12. Click Next.
13. Click Finish.

We can monitor the progress of the replication in the vSphere Web Client.

1. Click the vCenter Server in the left-hand navigation bar.
2. Click the Monitor tab.
3. Click the vSphere Replication sub tab.
4. Click the Refresh icon to show the progress of the replication.
5. It's in the Initial Full Sync. Click the Refresh icon in the Replication Details section to see the progress of the sync.
6. It's at 60%. Click the Refresh icon again. It's complete!

Go to vCloud Director to see the new replication target VM.

1. Click on the open vCloud Director tab in the browser.
2. Notice an existing VM is running in the environment. vCloud Availability can be used with dedicated Org VDCs or with existing Org VDCs. Click the Refresh icon to see the new replication target VM.

vCloud Availability has its own user interface to see the status of replicated VMs. It can also be used to initiate tests, failovers, and failbacks (these can also be done from the vSphere Web Client).

1. Click on the open vCloud Availability tab in the browser. The Home section shows the replicated VM.
2. Click the Workspaces tab at the top of the window. The Workspaces section shows which VMs are being replicated and/or reversed.
3. Click the Tasks tab at the top of the window. The Tasks section shows tasks related to vCloud Availability. It's a good place to check if you're experiencing problems with any actions in vCloud Availability.
4. Click the Workspaces tab again.
5. Click the CentOS VM name. Now you can see actions on the right side of the screen. This is how you could initiate a failover if you weren't able to access the production vSphere Web Client.

To return to the lab, click the link in the top right corner or close this browser tab.