Creating a Replication Target

Create a replication target for the following scenarios:

To identify resources that can be used for live mounts and to specify parameters for live mount operations, including live mounts that are performed for backup validation.
To enable testing failover operations for VMs using live mounts.
To support Virtualize Me operations.
To specify options for replication to a destination site.
To configure Distributed Storage clusters as destination sites for replication.
To identify a destination for full VM restores.

For VMware, users can select a replication target as a destination for out-of-place restores of full VMs. To enable this capability for a user, you must associate the replication target with the user or a user group that includes the user.

Before You Begin

Configure a hypervisor for the destination. For information, see the documentation for the virtualized platform that you are creating a hypervisor for. For example, for Google Cloud Platform, see Configuring Backups for Google Cloud Platform.
For Virtualize Me targets, download the required Windows or UNIX ISO files and copy them to a location on the destination host. For instructions to download the ISO files, see Downloading the ISO file for 1-Touch.
To use Distributed Storage datastores as replication targets for replication, you must set up Distributed Storage clusters as storage targets. For instructions, see Configuring Distributed Storage for DR.
Review the list of options for the destination hypervisor:

From the navigation pane, go to Auto recovery > Targets.

The Targets page appears.
At the top-right area of the page, click Add, and then select Replication target.

The Add Target page appears.
From the Select vendor page, select the virtualized platform for the destination.
Click Next.
The General page of the replication target wizard appears.
On the General, Destination Options, and Test Failover Options pages, enter hypervisor-specific values.
Click Submit.