6.1
Table Of Contents
- Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration
- Contents
- About VMware Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration
- Updated Information
- Overview of VMware Site Recovery Manager
- Site Recovery Manager System Requirements
- Creating the Site Recovery Manager Database
- Site Recovery Manager Authentication
- Creating SSL/TLS Server Endpoint Certificates for Site Recovery Manager
- Installing Site Recovery Manager
- Site Recovery Manager and vCenter Server Deployment Models
- Site Recovery Manager in a Two-Site Topology with One vCenter Server Instance per Platform Services Controller
- Site Recovery Manager in a Two-Site Topology with Multiple vCenter Server Instances per Platform Services Controller
- Site Recovery Manager in a Single Site Topology with a Shared Platform Services Controller
- Prerequisites and Best Practices for Site Recovery Manager Server Installation
- Install Site Recovery Manager Server
- Connect the Site Recovery Manager Server Instances on the Protected and Recovery Sites
- Establish a Client Connection to the Remote Site Recovery Manager Server Instance
- Install the Site Recovery Manager License Key
- Site Recovery Manager Server Does Not Start
- Unregister an Incompatible Version of vSphere Replication
- Site Recovery Manager and vCenter Server Deployment Models
- Modifying and Uninstalling Site Recovery Manager
- Modify a Site Recovery Manager Server Installation
- Reconfigure the Connection Between Sites
- Break the Site Pairing and Connect to a New Remote Site
- Repair a Site Recovery Manager Server Installation
- Rename a Site Recovery Manager Site
- Uninstall Site Recovery Manager
- Uninstall and Reinstall the Same Version of Site Recovery Manager
- Upgrading Site Recovery Manager
- Information That Site Recovery Manager Upgrade Preserves
- Types of Upgrade that Site Recovery Manager Supports
- Upgrade Site Recovery Manager
- Order of Upgrading vSphere and Site Recovery Manager Components
- Prerequisites and Best Practices for Site Recovery Manager Upgrade
- In-Place Upgrade of Site Recovery Manager Server
- Upgrade Site Recovery Manager Server with Migration
- Configure and Verify the Upgraded Site Recovery Manager Installation
- Revert to a Previous Release of Site Recovery Manager
- Installing Site Recovery Manager to Use with a Shared Recovery Site
- Shared Recovery Sites and vCenter Server Deployment Models
- Limitations of Using Site Recovery Manager in Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Site Recovery Manager Licenses in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Install Site Recovery Manager In a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Use vSphere Replication in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Install Site Recovery Manager Server on Multiple Protected Sites to Use with a Shared Recovery Site
- Install Multiple Site Recovery Manager Server Instances on a Shared Recovery Site
- Connect the Site Recovery Manager Sites in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Use Array-Based Replication in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Configure Placeholders and Mappings in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Upgrade Site Recovery Manager in a Shared Recovery Site Configuration
- Index
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The certificate must be a server certificate, for which the x509v3 Extended Key Usage must indicate TLS
Web Server Authentication.
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The certificate must include an extendedKeyUsage or enhancedKeyUsage attribute, the value of which
is serverAuth.
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Unlike in 5.x releases, there is no requirement for the certificate to also be a client certificate. The
clientAuth value is not required.
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The Subject Name must not be empty and must contain fewer than 4096 characters. In this release, the
Subject Name does not need to be the same for both members of a Site Recovery Manager Server pair.
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The certificate must identify the Site Recovery Manager Server host.
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The recommended way to identify the Site Recovery Manager Server host is with the host's fully-
qualified domain name (FQDN). If the certificate identifies the Site Recovery Manager Server host
with an IP address, this must be an IPv4 address. Using IPv6 addresses to identify the host is not
supported.
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Certificates generally identify the host in the Subject Alternative Name (SAN) attribute. Some CAs
issue certificates that identify the host in the Common Name (CN) value of the Subject Name
attribute. Site Recovery Manager accepts certificates that identify the host in the CN value, but this
is not the best practice. For information about SAN and CN best practices, see the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF) RFC 6125 at https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6125.
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The host identifier in the certificate must match the Site Recovery Manager Server local host
address that you specify when you install Site Recovery Manager.
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If Site Recovery Manager Server, vCenter Server, and Platform Services Controller run on the same host
machine, you can use the same certificate for all three servers. In this case, you must provide the
certificate in two formats:
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For Site Recovery Manager, the certificate must be a Personal Information Exchange Format
(PKCS#12) certificate that contains both of the private and public keys.
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For vCenter Server and Platform Services Controller, the certificate must be separated into two
files, one for the certificate with the public key and one for the private key. For information about
certificate requirements for vCenter Server and Platform Services Controller, see vSphere Security
Certificates in the vSphere 6.0 documentation.
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If you use a custom certificate that is signed by a third-party CA for which the root certificate is not
registered by default in Windows, and you want the certificates to be trusted without the need for
thumbprint verifications, install the root CA certificate in the Windows certificate store.
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