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Writer's pictureMohammed Bilal

Steps for Deploying Site Recovery Instances - Part 1

You can follow the below steps to Deploy Site Recovery on-premises and create a site pair:

  • Deploy On-Premises Site Recovery Components

  • Register the On-Premises vSphere Replication Instance with the vCenter Server

Deploy On-Premises Site Recovery Components:


You download and deploy the on-premises Site Recovery components.

  • In the VMware Cloud console browser tab, navigate to the SDDC summary page

  • Click the Add Ons tab

  • Under Site Recovery, click DOWNLOAD ON-PREMISES COMPONENTS

A new browser tab to the Download VMware Cloud on AWS page opens.

  • Log in to VMware Customer Connect using your assigned student account email address and password

    • Click Login in the top-right corner of the page

    • Enter your student VMware Customer Connect credentials

    • Click SIGN IN

The VMware Customer Connect home page opens.

  • Download the Site Recovery components

    • Click the Products and Accounts menu and click All Products

    • Click the Products A-Z tab

    • Scroll down the page to locate VMware Cloud on AWS

    • Click View Download Components next to VMware Cloud on AWS

The Download VMware Cloud on AWS page opens.

  • On the Product Downloads tab, click GO TO DOWNLOADS

The Download Product page opens.

  • On the Product Downloads tab, click the DOWNLOAD NOW button for VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.4.x Appliance

The End User License Agreement appears.

  • Select the check box and click ACCEPT

The download of the Site Recovery Manager ISO begins. The download is stored in the Downloads folder of the machine.

  • On the Product Downloads tab, click the DOWNLOAD NOW button for VMware vSphere Replication 8.4.x Appliance

The download of the vSphere Replication ISO begins. The download is stored in the Downloads folder of the machine.

  • Mount the vSphere Replication ISO and vSphere Site Recovery ISO

    • Open a Windows Explorer window on the desktop and navigate to the Downloads folder

    • Double-click the VMware-vSphere_Replication-8.4.x-xxxxxxxx.iso file to mount it

    • Double-click the VMware-srm-va-8.4.x-xxxxxxxx.iso file to mount it

  • Log in to the vSphere Client in the vCenter Cloud Gateway Appliance

    • Open a browser tab to the vCenter Cloud Gateway at https://xx.xx.xx.xx/ui/

    • Enter the login credentials

      • User name: administrator@vclass.local

      • Password: Password

      • Click LOGIN

The vSphere Client opens and shows both the VMware Cloud SDDC and the on-premises environments.

  • Deploy the on-premises vSphere Replication Appliance.

    • Right-click the SA-Management cluster and select Deploy OVF Template

The Deploy OVF Template wizard opens.

  • On the Select an OVF Template page, select Local file and click UPLOAD FILES

A Windows Explorer Open dialog box opens.

  • Navigate to the mounted vSphere Replication ISO bin directory

  • Select the vSphere_Replication_OVF10.ovf, vSphere_Replication-support.vmdk, and vSphere_Replication-system.vmdk files and click Open

  • Click NEXT

  • On the Select name and folder page, enter SA-VR-01 and click NEXT

  • On the Select a compute resource page, select SA-Management and click NEXT

  • On the Review details page, click NEXT

  • On the License agreements page, select the I accept all license agreements check box and click NEXT

  • On the Configuration page, select 2 vCPU and click NEXT

  • On the Select storage page, select Datastore-01

  • In the Select virtual disk format drop-down menu, select Thin Provision and click NEXT

  • On the Select Networks page, select sa-mgmt from the Destination Network drop-down menu and click NEXT

  • On the Customize template page, configure the options for the appliance Click NEXT

  • On the vService bindings page, leave the default values and click NEXT

  • On the Ready to complete page, click FINISH

The SA-VR-01 virtual machine is deployed to the SA-Management cluster. This process takes approximately 5 minutes

  • Deploy the on-premises Site Recovery Appliance

    • Right-click the SA-Management cluster and select Deploy OVF Template

The Deploy OVF Template wizard opens

  • On the Select an OVF Template page, select Local file and click UPLOAD FILES

A Windows Explorer Open dialog box opens

  • Navigate to the mounted vSphere Site Recovery ISO bin directory

  • Select the srm-va_OVF10.ovf, srm-va-support.vmdk, and srm-va-system.vmdk files and click Open

  • Click NEXT

  • On the Select name and folder page, enter SA-SRM-01 and click NEXT

  • On the Select a compute resource page, select SA-Management and click NEXT

  • On the Review details page, click NEXT

  • On the License agreements page, select the I accept all license agreements check box and click NEXT

  • On the Configuration page, select 2 vCPU and click NEXT

  • On the Select storage page, select Datastore

  • In the Select virtual disk format drop-down menu, select Thin Provision

  • Click NEXT

  • On the Select networks page, select sa-mgmt in the Destination Network drop-down menu and click NEXT

  • On the Customize template page, configure the options for the appliance Click NEXT

  • On the Ready to complete page, click FINISH

The SA-SRM-01 virtual machine is deployed to the SA-Management cluster. This process takes approximately 5 minutes

  • Power on the SA-VR-01 and SA-SRM-01 virtual machines

    • Right-click the SA-VR-01 virtual machine and select Power > Power On

    • Right-click the SA-SRM-01 virtual machine and select Power > Power On

Register the On-Premises vSphere Replication Instance with the vCenter Server:


You register and configure the on-premises vSphere Replication instance.

  • Log in to the vSphere Replication Appliance Management interface

    • Open a browser tab to the vSphere Replication Appliance Management interface at https://vSphere-Replication-FQDN:5480

    • Enter the login credentials

      • User name: admin

      • Password: Password

      • Click LOGIN

The vSphere Replication Appliance Management interface summary page appears

  • Configure the vSphere Replication appliance and connect it to the vCenter Server

    • On the vSphere Replication Appliance Management interface summary page, click CONFIGURE APPLIANCE

The Configure vSphere Replication window opens.

  • Enter SSO FQDN for the PSC hostname

  • Enter administrator@vsphere.local for the User name

  • Enter Password

  • Click NEXT

A Security Alert window opens.

  • Click CONNECT

  • Select SSO FQDN and click NEXT

A Security Alert window opens.

  • Click CONNECT

  • Enter Site-A for the Site name

  • Enter administrator@vclass.local for the Administrator email

  • Click NEXT

  • Click FINISH

Configuring vSphere Replication begins. This process takes approximately 3 minutes.


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