I'm trying to wrap my head around how to handle this. I was under the impression that the VRA would help with DR. I set it up and read through the docs that you can simply deploy one instance and replicate VMs from one datastore to another. But I am not seeing a way to recover the replicated VM if vCenter is down. Or what if I want to replicate my vCenter VM and recover to that? Is that possible?
What I want to do is replicate a bunch of VMs from one datastore to another, both will be accessible but I want to have two copies of each of the VMs. If my primary site dies how can I recover my replicated VMs if all my VMs (including vCenter, but EXCLUDING my VRA) are currently down? This doesn't sound like a crazy scenario to me. Do I need to purchase an additional vCenter license to accomplish this and run it in linked mode?
What am I missing?