vSphere Replication - One way replication

[IanB72]

Hi.

Just wondering if anyone could please shed some light on a question that I have in relation to vSphere Replication and one way replication as I'm struggling to find any related documentation.

We have two sites hosting an ESXi 5.0 cluster at each site. I have set  up vSphere Replication between the two clusters replicating a number of VMs from Site B to Site A. The VMs are happily replicating between sites, however I'm now at a point where I want to halt replication and use the VMs at Site A. I do not want to replicate back to Site B even in the event of a disaster.

I've created a Protection Group and Recovery Plan and successfully migrated a test VM to Site A. I no longer require replication nor the copy of the VM at Site B. I loked at to 'Remove Replication' on the VM but from what I've read this will actually delete the VM at the replicated site, i.e. Site A (where I want to now run the VM from).

How do I best remove the replication without destryoing the VM at Site A? Can I just delete the VM at Site B from the disk?

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers

[Biliana · Accepted solution]

Hi,

If you have successfully recovered your VMs from site B to site A, then you can safely remove the replication using the Remove replication button. This will just clear your replication. It won't remove the running recovered VMs at site A.

[IanB72]

Thanks - works a treat.

I still have to manually delete the old source VM from Site B and then removed the Protection Group and Recovery Plan if no longer required. But this causes no issues and the VM at Site A keeps on running.