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Deploy the
Virtual Appliance

 is distributed as an OVF virtual appliance.
Download the
ISO image and mount it on a system in your environment.
You deploy the
appliance by using the standard vSphere OVF deployment wizard. Only one
appliance is deployed on each
vCenter Server
. You can deploy additional
Servers.
You can deploy
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,
relies on the
VirtualCenter.FQDN
 property of the
vCenter Server
. When an IPv6 address is used for
, 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,
requires that all components in the environment, such as
vCenter Server
 and
ESXi
 hosts are accessible using the IPv6 address.
  1. Log in to the
    on the protected site.
  2. On the home page, select
    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
    appliance, and click
    Next
    .
    • Select
      URL
       and provide the URL to deploy the appliance from an online URL.
    • If you downloaded and mounted the
      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 data center 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
    .
    Selecting higher number of vCPUs ensures the better performance of the
    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
    .
    Encrypting the
    appliance VM is not necessary to replicate encrypted VMs with
    .
  11. Select a network from the list of available networks, set the IP protocol and IP allocation, and click
    Next
    .
    supports both DHCP and static IP addresses. You can also change network settings by using the
    Interface after installation.
  12. On the
    Customize template
     page, enter one or more NTP server host names or IP addresses.
  13. Set the password for the root account and enter the hostname or IP address of at least one NTP server.
    The password must be at least eight characters long and must contain characters from four-character classes: lowercase letters, uppercase letters, numbers, and special characters.
  14. Click
    Next
    .
  15. Review the binding to the
    vCenter Extension vService
     and click
    Next
    .
  16. Review the settings and click
    Finish
    .
    The
    appliance is deployed.
  17. Power on the
    appliance. Take a note of the IP address of the appliance and log out of the
    .
Register the
appliance with the
service.

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