You can upgrade existing Site Recovery Manager installations. The Site Recovery Manager upgrade process preserves existing information about Site Recovery Manager configurations.

Because of update release schedules, upgrading to certain Site Recovery Manager 5.8.x update releases is not supported for all 5.1.x and 5.5.x releases. For information about supported upgrade paths, see Solution Upgrade Path > VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager in the VMware Product Interoperability Matrixes at http://partnerweb.vmware.com/comp_guide2/sim/interop_matrix.php? before you upgrade.

Important:

Upgrading from Site Recovery Manager 5.0.x to Site Recovery Manager 5.8 is not supported. Upgrade Site Recovery Manager 5.0.x to a Site Recovery Manager 5.5.x release before you upgrade to Site Recovery Manager 5.8. See Upgrading Site Recovery Manager in the Site Recovery Manager 5.5 documentation for information about upgrading from 5.0.x to 5.5.x.

After you upgrade the Site Recovery Manager Server instances, the Site Recovery Manager plug-in appears in the vSphere Web Client. You use the Site Recovery Manager plug-in in the vSphere Web Client for the vCenter Server instances on the protected and recovery sites to configure and manage Site Recovery Manager. Site Recovery Manager 5.8 does not support the vSphere Client for Windows.

For the supported upgrade paths for other Site Recovery Manager releases, see the release notes for those releases. Alternatively, see the Solution Upgrade Path section of the VMware Product Interoperability Matrixes at http://partnerweb.vmware.com/comp_guide2/sim/interop_matrix.php?.

To revert to Site Recovery Manager 5.1.x or 5.5.x after upgrading to Site Recovery Manager 5.8, see Revert to a Previous Release of Site Recovery Manager.