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GA Date: November 15, 2016

What is vSphere Replication?

vSphere Replication is VMware’s proprietary hypervisor-based replication engine designed to protect running virtual machines from partial or complete site failures by replicating their VMDK disk files. It provides simple and cost-efficient replication to a distant failover site or between local hosts within a single site. Used standalone or in conjunction with Site Recovery Manager, it offers customers an alternative to traditional storage array-based replication technologies. vSphere Replication is also the engine powering the vCloud Air Disaster Recovery service and the vCloud Availability for vCloud Director offering targeted for vCAN Service Providers.

What’s New in this release:

5-minute Recovery Point Objective (RPO) support for additional data store types. This version of vSphere Replication extends support for the 5 minute RPO setting to the following new data stores: VMFS 5, VMFS 6, NFS 4.1, NFS 3, VVOL and VSAN 6.5. This allows customers to replicate virtual machine workloads with an RPO setting as low as 5-minutes between these various data store options.

This version of vSphere Replication extends support for the 5 minute RPO setting to the following new data stores: VMFS 5, VMFS 6, NFS 4.1, NFS 3, VVOL and VSAN 6.5. This allows customers to replicate virtual machine workloads with an RPO setting as low as 5-minutes between these various data store options. Spanish locale for the product user interface and documentation. This version of vSphere Replication adds support for Spanish language localization of the UI and delivers product documentation in Spanish.

This version of vSphere Replication adds support for Spanish language localization of the UI and delivers product documentation in Spanish. Integration with VMware Analytics Cloud (VAC). vSphere Replication is now participating in the VMware Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP).

Release Notes:

http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/vsphere-replication/65/vsphere-replication-65-release-notes.html

Download Page:

https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/details?downloadGroup=VR65&productId=614&rPId=13345

Product Documentation:

https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vsphere-replication-pubs.html

Interoperability Pages:

https://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere-replication/doc/vr-interop-pages-6-5.html