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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
Order of Upgrading vSphere and vSphere Replication
Components
To upgrade vSphere Replication, you must upgrade certain components of your vSphere environment in
the correct order.
Upgrade the components on the protected site before you upgrade the components on the recovery site.
If you encounter problems that prevent you from using the protected site when you upgrade the protected
site, you can use the recovery site to perform a recovery. The ESXi hosts can be upgraded at any time.
1 Upgrade all components of vCenter Server on the protected site.
2 Upgrade the vSphere Replication appliance on the protected site.
3 Upgrade any additional vSphere Replication server deployments on the protected site.
4 Upgrade all components of vCenter Server on the recovery site.
5 Upgrade the vSphere Replication appliance on the recovery site.
6 Upgrade any additional vSphere Replication server deployments on the recovery site.
7 Upgrade the ESXi host on the recovery site.
8 Upgrade the ESXi host on the protected site.
9 Upgrade VMware Tools for the replicated VMs.
Upgrade vSphere Replication by Using the Downloadable
ISO Image
You upgrade the vSphere Replication appliance and the vSphere Replication server by using a
downloadable ISO image.
Prerequisites
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Upgrade the vCenter Server instance that vSphere Replication extends.
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Download the VMware-vSphere_Replication-6.5.x.x-build_number.iso image from the
vSphere Downloads page. Copy the ISO image file to a datastore that is accessible from the
vCenter Server instance that you use with vSphere Replication.
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If the vSphere Replication version that you run is not supported for direct upgrade to
vSphere Replication 6.5, upgrade your vSphere Replication instance to a supported version. For
example, to upgrade vSphere Replication 5.5 to 6.5, you must first upgrade 5.5 to 5.8.0.2, and then
upgrade 5.8.0.2 to 6.1. See the interoperability matrix at
http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/sim/interop_matrix.php for solution upgrade paths for
vSphere Replication.
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Shut down and power off the vSphere Replication virtual machine.
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