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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
Using Standalone vSphere Replication with SRM
vSphere Replication 5.1 and later is available as a standalone extension of vCenter Server, that is
independent of SRM. If you installed a standalone version of vSphere Replication and then install SRM, all
existing pairings and replications are immediately accessible through the SRM user interface, except for
pairings and replications in a single vCenter Server. Pairings and replications in a single vCenter Server are
visible only in the vSphere Replication user interface.
Migration of the vSphere Replication database is not supported. If you upgrade vSphere Replication 5.1 to
SRM 5.5, vSphere Replication uses the embedded database. The standalone version of vSphere Replication
and SRM can coexist and work together in the same infrastructure. For example, you can replicate 100
virtual machines with vSphere Replication but choose to protect only 50 of them by using SRM. You can
manage all of the replications by using either the vSphere Replication interface in the vSphere Web Client or
by using the SRM interface. Some limitations apply to the management of the replications, depending on
which interface you use.
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You cannot manage replications in a single vCenter Server instance in the SRM interface.
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You cannot use the vSphere Replication interface in the vSphere Web Client to manually recover virtual
machines that SRM protects.
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You must use the vSphere Web Client to configure vSphere Replication to retain point-in-time
snapshots of virtual machines.
Update Releases
You can obtain update releases of vSphere Replication 5.5 by using Update Manager or by using the VAMI
of the vSphere Replication appliance.
Upgrade vSphere Replication
You can upgrade vSphere Replication by using either vSphere Update Manager or by using the virtual
appliance management interfaces (VAMI) of the vSphere Replication management server and
vSphere Replication servers.
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.
Upgrade vSphere Replication By Using vSphere Update Manager
You can upgrade vSphere Replication by using vSphere Update Manager.
Update Manager 5.5 contains the upgrade information for vSphere Replication 5.5. Using Update Manager
is the easiest way to upgrade vSphere Replication, especially for large SRM environments that contain
multiple vSphere Replication servers. You can upgrade multiple vSphere Replication servers at the same
time.
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.
If you are upgrading from vSphere Replication 1.0.x, you must perform an intermediate upgrade before you
upgrade to vSphere Replication 5.5. If you are upgrading from vSphere Replication server 5.1, you do not
perform an intermediate upgrade.
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