To connect a Site Recovery Manager site to a new remote site, you must remove the existing Site Recovery Manager configurations and break the pairing between the existing sites.
Site pairing makes modifications on both Site Recovery Manager sites. You cannot reconfigure an existing pairing between Site Recovery Manager sites to connect Site Recovery Manager on one site to a new Site Recovery Manager site. You must remove all configuration from both sites in the existing pair, then break the connection between the sites before you can configure a new site pairing. You cannot break the site pairing until you have removed all existing configurations between the sites.
Prerequisites
- You have an existing Site Recovery Manager installation with two connected sites.
- Make a full backup of the Site Recovery Manager database on both sites by using the tools that the database software provides. For instructions about how to back up the embedded database, see Back Up and Restore the Embedded vPostgres Database.
Procedure
Results
What to do next
- Install a new Site Recovery Manager instance on the new remote site. For instructions about installing Site Recovery Manager, see Deploy the Site Recovery Manager Virtual Appliance.
Important: The new Site Recovery Manager instance must have the same Site Recovery Manager extension ID as the existing site.
- Optionally uregister Site Recovery Manager Server from the previous remote site. For instructions about unregistering Site Recovery Manager Server, see the steps of Unregister the Site Recovery Manager Appliance from the Break Pairing step onwards.
- Reconfigure the inventory mappings and placeholder datastore mappings to map objects on the existing site to objects on the new remote site. For instructions about configuring mappings, see Site Recovery Manager Administration.
- Reconfigure the replication of virtual machines from the existing site to the new remote site. For information about configuring array-based replication and vSphere Replication, see Replicating Virtual Machines in Site Recovery Manager Administration.
- Create new protection groups and recovery plans to recover virtual machines to the new remote site. For information about creating protection groups and recovery plans, see Site Recovery Manager Administration.