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Upgrading vSphere Replication 9
If you installed vSphere Replication as part of a previous SRM installation, you must upgrade
vSphere Replication after you upgrade SRM.
If you upgrade SRM, vSphere Replication is not upgraded automatically. You must upgrade
vSphere Replication as a separate process from upgrading SRM.
The quickest way to upgrade vSphere Replication is to use vSphere Update Manager. If you cannot use
Update Manager, you can upgrade vSphere Replication by using the virtual appliance management
interface (VAMI) of the vSphere Replication appliances. Upgrading vSphere Replication by using the VAMI
requires more steps than upgrading by using Update Manager.
You might have installed an earlier version of vSphere Replication as part of an SRM installation, or you
might have installed the standalone version of vSphere Replication.
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vSphere Replication 1.0.x was delivered with SRM 5.0.x.
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vSphere Replication 5.1.x was delivered with SRM 5.1.x and is also available as a standalone product,
independently of SRM.
You can upgrade vSphere Replication 1.0.x and 5.1.x to vSphere Replication 5.5. The upgrade preserves the
configuration from the previous installation, including the database configuration, certificates,
vSphere Replication site pairings, registered vSphere Replication servers, and configured replications.
In SRM 5.0 the vSphere Replication management server and the vSphere Replication server are separate
appliances. In SRM 5.1 and later and vSphere Replication 5.1 and later, vSphere Replication is a single
appliance named the vSphere Replication appliance, that contains both the vSphere Replication
management server and a vSphere Replication server.
When upgrading vSphere Replication 1.0.x to vSphere Replication 5.5, the upgrade process upgrades the
vSphere Replication management server to the combined vSphere Replication 5.5 appliance. As a
consequence, an upgraded installation of vSphere Replication uses the vSphere Replication server that is
embedded in the combined appliance. If your infrastructure uses more than one vSphere Replication server,
you must upgrade them to vSphere Replication 5.5 and reregister them with the vSphere Replication
appliance.
NOTE After you upgrade vSphere Replication 1.0.x, the port on which the vSphere Replication appliance
publishes the VAMI changes from 8080 to 5480.
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