The Clone Operation
Use the Clone operation to create a copy of the VPG virtual machines on the recovery site in the production network. The virtual machines on the protected site remain protected and live.
Note: When the recovery site is vCD, the clone is created in vCenter Server and the virtual machines have to be manually imported into vCD.
You might want to create a clone if you need to have a copy of the virtual machines saved to a specific point-in-time, for example, when the VPG enters a
Replication Paused state, or when testing the VPG in a live DR test. For details, see
Cloning a VPG to the Recovery Site.
The cloned machines are named the after the protected virtual machine name along with the timestamp of the checkpoint used for the clone. The cloned virtual machines are not powered on.
The following diagram shows the positioning of the virtual machines before and after the completion of a Clone operation.
