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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
Your vSphere Replication server is synchronized with the new NTP server.
Reconfigure vSphere Replication to Use an External
Database
The vSphere Replication appliance contains an embedded vPostgreSQL database that you can use
immediately after you deploy the appliance, without any additional database configuration. If necessary,
you can reconfigure vSphere Replication to use an external database.
Each vSphere Replication appliance requires its own database. If the database at either site is corrupted,
vSphere Replication does not function. vSphere Replication cannot use the vCenter Server database
because it has different database schema requirements. However, if you do not use the embedded
vSphere Replication database you can use the vCenter database server to create and support an
external vSphere Replication database.
You might need to use an external database to improve performance or load balancing, for easier backup,
or to meet your company's database standards.
Note vSphere Replication server inside the vSphere Replication appliance uses its own embedded
database and config files. Configuring VRMS to use external database does not provide protection of
losing the vSphere Replication appliance or any Additional vSphere Replication Server appliance.
If you reinitialize the database after you deploy vSphere Replication, you must go to the
vSphere Replication virtual appliance management interface (VAMI) to reconfigure vSphere Replication to
use the new database connection.
Prerequisites
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Verify that the vSphere Replication appliance is powered on.
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Verify that you have administrator privileges to configure the vSphere Replication appliance.
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You must create and configure the external database before you connect it to vSphere Replication.
See Databases that vSphere Replication Supports for the configuration requirements for each
supported type of database.
Procedure
1 Use a supported browser to log in to the vSphere Replication VAMI.
The URL for the VAMI is https://vr-appliance-address:5480.
2 Review and confirm the browser security exception, if applicable, to proceed to the login page.
3 Type the root user name and password for the appliance.
You configured the root password during the OVF deployment of the vSphere Replication appliance.
4 On the VR tab, click Configuration.
5 Select Manual configuration to specify a configuration or select Configure from an existing VRM
database to use a previously established configuration.
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