Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines 6.0.1 Installation and Deployment Guide

How many vRPAs?

Determining the number of vRPAs in the system is based on protection requirements, existing storage capacity, VMware infrastructure, and replication requirements such as high availability or product evaluation.

For typical installations, two vRPAs per vRPA cluster is sufficient. Two vRPAs per vRPA cluster provide the high availability that most production environments require.

For production environments that do not require high availability or for product evaluation in non-production environments, a single vRPA per cluster is also possible.

All vRPA clusters in a system must have the same number of vRPAs.

The actual number of vRPAs that you need for each vRPA cluster depends on the capabilities of your storage, network, ESXi hosts, and the scale and performance requirements of your system.