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Steps for Deploying Site Recovery Instances - Part 2

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  • Register the On-Premises Site Recovery Instance with vCenter Server

  • Create Firewall Rules for Site Recovery

  • Create a New Site Pair

Register the On-Premises Site Recovery Instance with vCenter Server:


You register and configure the on-premises Site Recovery instance.

  • Log in to the Site Recovery Appliance Management interface

    • Open a browser tab to the Site Recovery Appliance Management interface at https://SRM-FQDN:5480

    • Enter the login credentials

    • User name: admin

    • Password: Password

    • Click LOGIN

    • The SRM Appliance Management interface summary page opens.

  • Configure the Site Recovery appliance and connect it to the vCenter Server

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

The Configure Site Recovery Manager 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 Site Recovery Manager begins. This process takes approximately 3 minutes.


Create Firewall Rules for Site Recovery


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

    • Click your student name link to the SDDC.

You create two gateway firewall rules to give access to the Site Recovery Manager appliances deployed in your SDDC.


Depending on your security model, granting access to the Site Recovery Manager appliances from any client is not advisable. Instead, you can provide specific IP ranges from which Site Recovery access is expected.


When the Site Recovery Manager configuration is ready, you must give access to the vSphere Replication appliance.

  • On the Networking & Security tab, click Gateway Firewall under Security

  • Click the Management Gateway tab

  • Create a firewall rule to allow inbound traffic to the Site Recovery Manager

    • Click ADD RULE

    • Enter SRM Inbound for the Name

    • Leave Any as the value for Sources

    • Click the edit icon in the Destinations text box

The Set Destination window appears.

  • Select Site Recovery Manager and click APPLY

  • Click the edit icon in the Services text box

  • Select VMware Site Recovery SRM

  • Leave Allow selected in the Action drop-down menu

  • Click PUBLISH

  • Create a firewall rule to allow outbound traffic from the Site Recovery Manager

    • Click ADD RULE

    • Enter SRM Outbound for the Name

    • Click the edit icon for Sources

The Set Source window appears.

  • Select System Defined groups

  • Select Site Recovery Manager and click APPLY

  • Leave Any as the value for Destinations

  • Leave Any as the value for Services

  • Leave Allow selected in the Action drop-down menu

  • Click PUBLISH

  • Create a firewall rule to allow inbound traffic to vSphere Replication

    • Click ADD RULE

    • Enter VR Inbound for the Name

    • Leave Any as the value for Sources

    • Click the edit icon for Destinations

The Set Destination window appears.

  • Select vSphere Replication and click APPLY

  • Click the edit icon for Services

  • Select VMware Site Recovery vSphere Replication

  • Leave Allow selected in the Action drop-down menu

  • Click PUBLISH

  • Create a firewall rule to allow outbound traffic from vSphere Replication

    • Click ADD RULE

    • Enter VR Outbound for the Name

    • Click the edit icon for Sources

The Set Source window appears

  • Select System Defined groups

  • Select vSphere Replication and click APPLY

  • Leave Any as the value for Destinations

  • Leave Any as the value for Services

  • Leave Allow selected in the Action drop-down menu

  • Click PUBLISH


Create a New Site Pair:


You pair the on-premises Site Recovery instance with the VMware Cloud Site Recovery instance.

  • Log in to the Site Recovery Appliance Management interface.

    • Open a browser tab to the Site Recovery Appliance Management interface at https://SRM-FQDN/dr

    • Enter the login credentials

    • User name: administrator@vclass.local

    • Password: Password

    • Click LOGIN

The Site Recovery interface appears

  • Create a new site pair

    • Click NEW SITE PAIR

The New Pair window appears

  • Select Pair with a peer vCenter Server located in a different SSO domain and click NEXT

  • In the PSC hostname text field, enter your VMware Cloud vCenter Server FQDN

You can obtain the VMware Cloud vCenter Server FQDN from the VMware Cloud SDDC Settings tab

  • Enter cloudadmin@vmc.local for the User name

  • Enter the password for your cloudadmin@vmc.local account

You can obtain the cloudadmin@vmc.local credentials from the VMware Cloud SDDC Settings tab.

  • Click FIND VCENTER SERVER INSTANCES

A list of available vCenter Server instances appears

  • Select the VMware Cloud vCenter Server instance and click NEXT

  • Select the Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication check boxes and click NEXT

A Security Alert window opens

  • Click CONNECT

  • Click FINISH

The on-premises site and VMware Cloud site are paired.

NOTE: If the site pair is not visible, you should click the Site Recovery interface refresh icon. k. Close the Site Recovery browser tab

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