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3 (Optional) If you use vSphere Replication, select the appropriate target datastores for the replica virtual
machines when you configure replication.
Avoid using the same datastore as the target for vSphere Replication as you use as the placeholder
datastore for Site Recovery Manager.
Option Action
Share customer resources
Select a common target datastore on the shared recovery site. You can
create individual folders in the target datastore for each customer on the
recovery site.
Isolate customer resources
Select a different datastore for each customer on the shared recovery site.
Upgrade Site Recovery Manager in a Shared Recovery Site
Configuration
You can upgrade existing Site Recovery Manager installations that use a shared recovery site.
When you upgrade a Site Recovery Manager installation that uses a shared recovery site, the same
recommendations apply as for upgrading a standard one-to-one installation of Site Recovery Manager. See
Chapter 8, “Upgrading Site Recovery Manager,” on page 53.
Upgrade all of the protected sites before you upgrade the shared recovery site. When you upgrade all of the
protected sites before you upgrade the shared recovery site, you can run recoveries on the shared recovery
site if failures occur on a protected site during the upgrade process. If you upgrade vCenter Server on the
shared recovery site before you upgrade all of the protected sites, you cannot perform recovery until you
complete all of the upgrades.
Upgrade the protected sites in order of importance, upgrading the most important sites first and the least
important sites last. For example, upgrade protected sites that run business-critical applications before you
upgrade sites that are less vital to your operations.
Prerequisites
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Verify that you know the standard procedure for upgrading Site Recovery Manager. For information
about a standard Site Recovery Manager upgrade, see Chapter 8, “Upgrading Site Recovery Manager,”
on page 53.
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Evaluate the importance of each protected site, and prioritize the upgrade of the sites accordingly.
Procedure
1 Upgrade vCenter Server on the most critical of the protected sites.
2 (Optional) If you use vSphere Replication, upgrade the vSphere Replication appliance that connects to
the vCenter Server instance that you upgraded in Step 1.
3 Upgrade the Site Recovery Manager Server instance that connects to the vCenter Server instance that
you upgraded in Step 1.
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If you perform in-place upgrade of Site Recovery Manager Server, the installer obtains from the
registry the Site Recovery Manager extension ID that you set during the previous installation.
There is no option to modify the Site Recovery Manager extension ID during upgrade.
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If you upgrade Site Recovery Manager Server with migration, you must specify the same
Site Recovery Manager extension ID as you used for the previous installation.
4 (Optional) If you use array-based replication, upgrade the storage replication adapters (SRA) on the
Site Recovery Manager Server host machine that you upgraded in Step 3.
5 Repeat Step 1 to Step 4 for each of the protected sites that connect to the shared recovery site.
6 Upgrade vCenter Server on the shared recovery site.
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