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title: "Creating Replication Job"
description: "Before you replicate a VM, consider the following: You must add all components needed for the replication process to the backup infrastructure. These components are source and target hosts, backup proxy and backup repository."
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breadcrumb: "Quick Start Guide > VM Replication > Creating Replication Job"
dateModified: "2026-10-21"
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# Creating Replication Job

## Before You Begin

Before you replicate a VM, consider the following:

- You must add all components needed for the replication process to the backup infrastructure. These components are source and target hosts, backup proxy and backup repository.
- [For VMware vSphere] Due to VMware vSphere limitations, if you change the size of VM disks on the source VM, Veeam Backup & Replication deletes all available restore points on the VM replica during the next replication job session. For more information, see [this Veeam KB article](https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1004047).
- [For Microsoft Hyper-V] You cannot replicate VMs with shared VHDX and VHDS disks.

## Creating Replication Job

To replicate a VM, do the following:

1. Open the **Home** view.
2. In the inventory pane of the **Home** view, right-click the **Jobs** node and select **Replication** > **Virtual machine** > *\<platform\>* to launch the **New Replication Job** wizard.

   [![Create Replication Job](images/vm_replica_job_launch.png "Create Replication Job")](images/vm_replica_job_launch.png){.toggle scale=75}

3. At the **Name** step of the wizard, specify a name and description for the replication job. For other settings, leave the default values.

   ![Specify Job Name](images/replication_job_name.png "Specify Job Name")

4. At the **Virtual Machines** step of the wizard, click **Add**. From the list, select VMs that you want to replicate.

   You can also replicate VM containers. If you add a new VM to the container after the replication job is created, Veeam Backup & Replication automatically updates the job to include the new VM.

   ![Choose VMs to Replicate](images/vm_replica_add_vms.png "Choose VMs to Replicate")

5. [For VMware vSphere] At the **Destination** step of the wizard, do the following:

   1. Click **Choose** next to the **Host or cluster** field and select a host on which the VM replica must be registered.
   2. Click **Choose** next to the **Resource pool** field and select the target resource pool.
   3. Click **Choose** next to the **VM folder** field and select the folder in which the replica must be placed.
   4. Click **Choose** next to the **Datastore** field and select a datastore where VM replica files must be stored.

   ![Choose Replication Destination](images/vm_replica_job_destination.png "Choose Replication Destination")

6. [For Microsoft Hyper-V] At the **Destination** step of the wizard, do the following:

   1. Click **Choose** next to the **Host or cluster** field and select a host on which the VM replica must be registered.
   2. Click **Choose** next to the **Path** field and specify a path to a location where VM replica files should be stored.

   ![Choose Replication Destination](images/hv_replica_job_destination.png "Choose Replication Destination")

7. At the **Job Settings** step of the wizard, do the following:

   1. In the **Repository for replica metadata** list, select the backup repository where you want to store the metadata file.
   2. In the **Replica name suffix** field, specify the suffix that will be appended to the name of the original VM.
   3. In the **Restore points to keep** field, define the number of restore points to keep.

      When this number is exceeded, the earliest restore point is removed.

   ![Specify Replication Job Settings](images/vm_replica_job_settings.png "Specify Replication Job Settings")

8. At the **Data Transfer** step of the wizard, leave the default settings.
9. At the **Guest Processing** step of the wizard, leave the default settings if you do not need transactionally consistent replicas. Otherwise, select the **Enable application-aware processing** check box and specify credentials of a user account to connect to the VM guest OS. The user account must have Administrator permissions.

   To specify advanced options for VSS processing, click **Applications**. Select a VM in the list and click **Edit**. In the opened window on the **General** tab, do the following:

   1. In the **Applications** section, select **Try application processing, but ignore failures** to continue the replication job even if VSS errors occur. If VSS processing fails, the created replica will not be transactionally consistent but crash consistent.
   2. In the **Transaction logs** section, check that the **Process transaction logs with this job** option is selected.

   ![Specify General Application Processing Settings](images/vm_replica_job_vss_common.png "Specify General Application Processing Settings")

10. At the **Schedule** step of the wizard, do the following:

    1. Select the **Run the job automatically** check box. If you do not select this check box, you will have to launch the job manually. For details, see [Start Replication Job Manually](replication_job_incremental.md).
    2. Select the schedule type: daily, monthly or periodically.

       In the **Periodically every** field, you can select **Continiously** to run the job in a non-stop manner. A new session of the job will start as soon as the previous job session completes.

    3. Make sure the **Retry failed VM processing** check box is selected.

    ![Specify Job Schedule](images/vm_replica_job_schedule.png "Specify Job Schedule")

11. At the **Summary** step of the wizard, select the **Run the job when I click Finish** check box and click the **Finish** button.
12. In the inventory pane of the **Home** view, expand the **Last 24 Hours** node to see the created job.
13. Open **vSphere Client** or **Hyper-V Manager** and make sure that the replica appeared on the target host.

## Reference

For more information on replica creation, see the [Creating Replication Jobs](https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbr/userguide/replica_job.html?ver=13) (VMware vSphere) and [Creating Replication Jobs](https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbr/userguide/replica_job.html?ver=13) (Microsoft Hyper-V) sections in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.