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Table Of Contents
- 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
You deploy the vSphere Replication appliance by using the standard vSphere OVF deployment wizard.
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.
Prerequisites
Download the vSphere Replication ISO image and mount it on a system in your environment.
Procedure
1 Log in to the vSphere Web Client on the source site.
2 Select vCenter > Hosts and Clusters.
3 Right-click a host and select Deploy OVF template.
4 Provide the location of the OVF file from which to deploy the vSphere Replication appliance, and click
Next.
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Select URL and provide the URL to deploy the appliance from an online URL.
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If you downloaded and mounted the vSphere Replication ISO image on a system in your
environment, select Local file > Browse and navigate to the \bin directory in the ISO image,
and select the vSphere_Replication_OVF10.ovf, vSphere_Replication-system.vmdk, and
vSphere_Replication-support.vmdk files.
5 Accept the name, select or search for a destination folder or datacenter for the virtual appliance, and
click Next.
You can enter a new name for the virtual appliance. The name must be unique within each
vCenter Server virtual machine folder.
6 Select a cluster, host, or resource pool where you want to run the deployed template, and click Next.
7 Review the virtual appliance details and click Next.
8 Accept the end user license agreements (EULA) and click Next.
9 Select the number of vCPUs for the virtual appliance and click Next.
Note Selecting higher number of vCPUs ensures better performance of the vSphere Replication
Management Server, but might slow down the replications that run on ESXi host systems that have 4
or less cores per NUMA node. If you are unsure what the hosts in your environment are, select 2
vCPUs.
10 Select a destination datastore and disk format for the virtual appliance and click Next.
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