Deploying the
Site Recovery Manager Appliance

The
Site Recovery Manager Virtual Appliance
is a preconfigured VM that is optimized for running
Site Recovery Manager
and its associated services.
You deploy the appliance on an
ESXi
host in your vSphere environment.
You can use the
Site Recovery Manager Appliance
Management Interface to configure the
Site Recovery Manager Appliance
and edit the appliance settings.
After you deploy and configure
Site Recovery Manager
instances on both sites, the
Site Recovery Manager
plug-in appears in the
vSphere Client
.
The
Site Recovery Manager Appliance
supports only the vPostgress embedded database.
For information about the compatibility between
vCenter Server
and
Site Recovery Manager
versions, see
vCenter Server
Requirements
in the
Compatibility Matrices for Site Recovery Manager 8.8
at