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- VMware vSphere Replication Installation and Configuration
- Contents
- vSphere Replication Installation and Configuration
- Updated Information
- Overview of VMware vSphere Replication
- vSphere Replication System Requirements
- Installing and Uninstalling vSphere Replication
- Install vSphere Replication
- Uninstall vSphere Replication
- Unregister vSphere Replication from vCenter Server if the Appliance Was Deleted
- Configuring the Customer Experience Improvement Program
- Isolating the Network Traffic of vSphere Replication
- Set Up a VMkernel Adapter for vSphere Replication Traffic on a Source Host
- Set Up a VMkernel Adapter for vSphere Replication Traffic on a Target Host
- Create a VM Network Adapter to Use for Incoming Replication Traffic on the Combined vSphere Replication Appliance
- Create VM Network Adapters to Isolate the Network Traffic of a vSphere Replication Server
- Deploying Additional vSphere Replication Servers
- Upgrading vSphere Replication
- 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
- Update the NTP Server Configuration
- Reconfigure vSphere Replication to Use an External Database
- Use the Embedded vSphere Replication Database
- vSphere Replication Roles and Permissions
Install vSphere Replication
The installation procedure of vSphere Replication involves several steps.
Procedure
1 Prepare Your Environment to Install vSphere Replication
Before you deploy the vSphere Replication appliance, you must prepare the environment.
2 Deploy the vSphere Replication Virtual Appliance
vSphere Replication is distributed as an OVF virtual appliance.
3 Register the vSphere Replication Appliance with vCenter Single Sign-On
You must register the vSphere Replication Management Server with vCenter Single Sign-On on both
the source and the target sites.
4 Configure vSphere Replication Connections
To use vSphere Replication between two sites managed by different vCenter Server instances, you
need to configure a connection between the two vSphere Replication appliances.
Prepare Your Environment to Install vSphere Replication
Before you deploy the vSphere Replication appliance, you must prepare the environment.
Procedure
1 Verify that you have vSphere and vSphere Web Client installations for the source and target sites.
2 In the vSphere Web Client, select the vCenter Server instance on which you are deploying
vSphere Replication, click Configure > Settings > Advanced Settings, and verify that the
VirtualCenter.FQDN value is set to a fully-qualified domain name or a literal address.
Note vSphere Replication can be deployed with either IPv4 or IPv6 address. Mixing IP addresses,
for example having a single appliance with an IPv4 and an IPv6 address, is not supported. To register
as an extension, vSphere Replication relies on the VirtualCenter.FQDN property of the
vCenter Server. When an IPv6 address is used for vSphere Replication, the VirtualCenter.FQDN
property must be set to a fully qualified domain name that can be resolved to an IPv6 address or to a
literal address. When operating with an IPv6 address, vSphere Replication requires that all
components in the environment, such as vCenter Server and ESXi hosts are accessible using the
IPv6 address.
What to do next
You can deploy the vSphere Replication appliance.
Deploy the vSphere Replication Virtual Appliance
vSphere Replication is distributed as an OVF virtual appliance.
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