Deploy the vSphere
Replication Virtual Appliance
vSphere
Replication
Virtual AppliancevSphere
Replication
is distributed as an OVF virtual appliance. To deploy
vSphere
Replication
successfully,
follow the sequence of instructions.- Download thevSphere ReplicationISO image and mount it on a system in your environment.
You deploy the
vSphere
Replication
appliance by using the standard vSphere OVF deployment
wizard.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. Copying or migrating an existing
vSphere
Replication
appliance
is not supported. You must do a new deployment. - Log in to thevSphere Clienton the source site.If you use the HTML5-basedvSphere Clientto deploy the OVF virtual appliance, onvSphereversion earlier thanvSphere6.7 Update 1, the deployment succeeds, butvSphere Replicationfails to start.
- On the home page, selectHosts and Clusters.
- Right-click a host and selectDeploy OVF template.
- Provide the location of the OVF file from which to deploy thevSphere Replicationappliance, and clickNext.
- SelectURLand provide the URL to deploy the appliance from an online URL.
- If you downloaded and mounted thevSphere ReplicationISO image on a system in your environment, select and navigate to the\bindirectory in the ISO image, and select thevSphere_Replication_OVF10.ovf,vSphere_Replication_OVF10.cert,vSphere_Replication_OVF10.mf,vSphere_Replication-system.vmdk, andvSphere_Replication-support.vmdkfiles.
- Accept the name, select or search for a destination folder or data center for the virtual appliance, and clickNext.You can enter a new name for the virtual appliance. The name must be unique within eachvCenter Servervirtual machine folder.
- Select a cluster, host, or resource pool where you want to run the deployed template, and clickNext.
- Review the virtual appliance details and clickNext.
- Accept the end-user license agreements (EULA) and clickNext.
- Select the number of vCPUs for the virtual appliance and clickNext.Selecting higher number of vCPUs ensures the better performance of thevSphere ReplicationManagement 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.
- Select a destination datastore and disk format for the virtual appliance and clickNext.Encrypting thevSphere Replicationappliance VM is not necessary to replicate encrypted VMs withvSphere Replication.
- Select a network from the list of available networks, set the IP protocol and IP allocation, and clickNext.vSphere Replicationsupports both DHCP and static IP addresses. You can also change network settings by using theVRMS Appliance Management Interfaceafter installation.
- On theCustomize templatepage, enter one or more NTP server host names or IP addresses.
- 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.
- ClickNext.
- To check the integrity of thevSphere Replicationappliance binary files, select theFile Integrity Flagcheck box.If thevSphere Replicationappliance detects changes to the binary files, it sends log traces to the syslog.
- You can modify the default Network Properties.SettingActionHost Network IP Address FamilySelect the Network IP address family. The options are IPv4 or IPv6.Host Network ModeSelect the host network mode. The options are static, DHCP, or autoconf. Autoconf is avalable only for IPv6.Default GatewayEnter the default gateway address for this VM.Domain NameEnter the domain name of this VM.Domain Search PathEnter the domain search path for this VM. Use comma or space separated domain names.Domain Name ServersThe domain name server IP Addresses for this VM. Use commas to separate the IP addresses.Network 1 IP AddressThe IP address for the default Ethernet adapter.Network 1 NetprefixThe prefix for the default Ethernet adapter.
- Review the settings and clickFinish.ThevSphere Replicationappliance is deployed.
- Power on thevSphere Replicationappliance. Take a note of the IP address of the appliance and log out of thevSphere Client.
- To deployvSphere Replicationon the target site, repeat the procedure.
Configure the
vSphere
Replication
Appliance to connect to a vCenter Server
.