vSphere Replication
Broadcom (VMware)
Included
Warm - seeded online, short cutover window
Agentless
Mid estates
Workload V2V
What it is good at
Free with vSphere, per-VM RPO from 5 minutes, good for moving a few dozen VMs between clusters or sites.
Where it falls down
No orchestration or network mapping without SRM; manual power-on at the target.
Capabilities
- Changed-block tracking / incremental sync
- Agentless operation
- Rollback / failback after cutover
Cost and licensing
- Cost category
- Included — No extra charge if you already hold the platform licence.
- Indicative price
- Included from vSphere Essentials Plus upwards
- Licence model
- Bundled entitlement with vSphere Essentials Plus and above (and with VMware Live Recovery / SRM).
- How to license it
- Download the vSphere Replication appliance under your existing vSphere entitlement in Broadcom Support Portal. No separate key.
- Lifecycle
- Current
- Vendor page
- https://www.vmware.com/products/
Pricing and licensing last reviewed 2026-09-18. Indicative only - confirm with the vendor.
Supported sources
- VMware vSphere / ESXi (vCenter)
Supported targets
- VMware vSphere / ESXi (vCenter)
- Azure VMware Solution (AVS)
- VMware Cloud on AWS / VCF on AWS