The vCloud Availability for vCloud Director solution enables usage of a public vCloud Director endpoint as a target for vSphere Replication. vSphere Replication is provided by the hypervisor and supports essentially any virtualized workload without any dependence on application or operating system disaster recovery (DR) capability. vSphere 5.5, 6.0 and 6.5 environments are supported, while only vSphere 6.x provides replication in both directions (to and from the cloud). Only running virtual machines are replicated which means templates or powered-off VMs cannot be protected and must be replicated with a different solution (for example, VMware vCloud Connector® or VMware vCenter® Content Library synchronization).

While the main use case is disaster recovery, the solution can be also leveraged for migration services where minimal workload downtime is required.