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Table Of Contents
- Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration
- Contents
- About Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration
- Overview of VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
- Site Recovery Manager System Requirements
- Creating the SRM Database
- SRM Authentication
- Installing SRM
- Upgrading SRM
- Configuring Array-Based Protection
- Installing vSphere Replication
- Deploy the vSphere Replication Appliance
- Configure vSphere Replication Connections
- Reconfigure the vSphere Replication Appliance
- Reconfigure General vSphere Replication Settings
- Change the SSL Certificate of the vSphere Replication Appliance
- Change the Password of the vSphere Replication Appliance
- Change Keystore and Truststore Passwords of the vSphere Replication Appliance
- Configure vSphere Replication Network Settings
- Configure vSphere Replication System Settings
- Reconfigure vSphere Replication to Use an External Database
- Use the Embedded vSphere Replication Database
- Deploy an Additional vSphere Replication Server
- Register an Additional vSphere Replication Server
- Reconfigure vSphere Replication Server Settings
- Unregister and Remove a vSphere Replication Server
- Uninstall vSphere Replication
- Unregister vSphere Replication from vCenter Server if the Appliance Was Deleted
- Upgrading vSphere Replication
- Creating SRM Placeholders and Mappings
- Installing SRM to Use with a Shared Recovery Site
- Limitations of Using SRM in Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- SRM Licenses in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Install SRM In a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Install SRM Server on Multiple Protected Sites to Use with a Shared Recovery Site
- Install Multiple SRM Server Instances on a Shared Recovery Site
- Install the SRM Client Plug-In In a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Connect to SRM in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Connect the SRM Sites in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Configure Placeholders and Mappings in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Use Array-Based Replication in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Use vSphere Replication in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Troubleshooting SRM Installation and Configuration
- Cannot Restore SQL Database to a 32-Bit Target Virtual Machine During SRM Upgrade
- SRM Server Does Not Start
- vSphere Client Cannot Connect to SRM
- Site Pairing Fails Because of Different Certificate Trust Methods
- Error at vService Bindings When Deploying the vSphere Replication Appliance
- OVF Package is Invalid and Cannot be Deployed
- vSphere Replication Appliance or vSphere Replication Server Does Not Deploy from the SRM Interface
- Connection Errors Between vSphere Replication and SQL Server Cannot be Resolved
- 404 Error Message when Attempting to Pair vSphere Replication Appliances
- vSphere Replication Service Fails with Unresolved Host Error
- Increase the Memory of the vSphere Replication Server for Large Deployments
- vSphere Replication Appliance Extension Cannot Be Deleted
- Uploading a Valid Certificate to vSphere Replication Results in a Warning
- vSphere Replication Status Shows as Disconnected
- vSphere Replication Server Registration Takes Several Minutes
- vSphere Replication is Inaccessible After Changing vCenter Server Certificate
- Index
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You must create and configure the external database before you connect it to vSphere Replication. See
“Databases that vSphere Replication Supports,” on page 64 for the configuration requirements for
each supported type of database.
Procedure
1 Connect to the VAMI of the vSphere Replication appliance in a Web browser.
The URL for the VAMI is https://vr-appliance-address:5480.
You can also access the VAMI by clicking Configure VR Appliance in the Summary tab in the
vSphere Replication view of the SRM interface.
2 Type the root user name and password for the appliance.
You configured the root password during the OVF deployment of the vSphere Replication appliance.
3 Select the VR tab and click Configuration.
4 Select Manual configuration to specify a configuration or select Configure from an existing VRM
database to use a previously established configuration.
5 In the DB text boxes, provide information about the database for vSphere Replication to use.
Option Setting
DB Type Select SQL Server or Oracle.
DB Host IP address or fully qualified domain name of the host on which the database server is running.
DB Port Port on which to connect to the database.
DB Username Username for the vSphere Replication database user account that you create on the database server.
DB Password Password for the vSphere Replication database user account that you create on the database server.
DB Name Name of the vSphere Replication database instance.
DB URL Auto-generated and hidden by default. Advanced users can fine-tune other database properties by
modifying the URL, for example if you use a named instance of SQL Server.
6 Click Save and Restart Service to apply the changes.
You configured vSphere Replication to use an external database instead of the database that is embedded in
the vSphere Replication appliance.
Databases that vSphere Replication Supports
The vSphere Replication virtual appliance includes the VMware standard embedded vPostgreSQL database.
You can also configure vSphere Replication to use an external database.
Automated migration between the embedded database and any external databases is not supported in any
direction. If you must configure an external database, you must manually migrate the data or manually
recreate all replications.
You can configure vSphere Replication to use one of the supported external databases.
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Microsoft SQL
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Oracle
External vPostgreSQL databases are not supported. vSphere Replication supports the same database
versions as vCenter Server. For supported database versions, see the VMware Product Interoperability Matrixes
at http://partnerweb.vmware.com/comp_guide2/sim/interop_matrix.php?.
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