The Compatibility Matrices for VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.5 describe the compatibility between Site Recovery Manager 8.5 and platforms, database software, guest operating systems, storage partners, and other VMware solutions. Where compatibility information for Site Recovery Manager exists in the VMware Product Interoperability Matrices and the VMware Compatibility Guide, the present matrices describe how to use these tools to find the relevant information. Where the VMware Product Interoperability Matrices and the VMware Compatibility Guide do not provide information relating to Site Recovery Manager, this information is listed here.

In the compatibility tables listed in these matrices, YES means the versions are compatible and No means the versions are not compatible.

• General Information
• Guest Operating System Support
• Storage Replication Adapter Support

General Information

• vSphere Editions
• Upgrade Paths
• vCenter Server Requirements
• ESXi Host Requirements
• vSphere Replication Requirements
• Interoperability with VMware Solutions
• Supported Database Software

vSphere Editions

Site Recovery Manager 8.5 supports the following editions of vSphere.

vSphere Edition	Site Recovery Manager 8.5
vSphere Standard	YES
vSphere Advanced	No
vSphere Enterprise	YES
vSphere Enterprise Plus	YES
Infrastructure Enterprise	No
Infrastructure Foundation	No
Infrastructure Standard	No
vSphere Essentials	No
vSphere Essentials Plus	YES

NOTE: The protection and recovery of encrypted virtual machines with vSphere Replication requires VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 1 or later for 6.7.x based versions and vSphere 7.0 Update 2c or later for 7.0.x based versions.

Upgrade Paths

You can upgrade existing installations of the Site Recovery Manager 8.3.x virtual appliance and the Site Recovery Manager 8.4.x virtual appliance to the Site Recovery Manager 8.5 virtual appliance.

You can migrate your Site Recovery Manager 8.3.x instance from Windows to the Site Recovery Manager 8.3 virtual appliance and then upgrade to Site Recovery Manager 8.5. For information about the migration procedure, see Migrate from Site Recovery Manager for Windows to Site Recovery Manager Virtual Appliance.

For the most up to date supported upgrade paths for Site Recovery Manager, check the VMware Product Interoperability Matrixes.

1. Go to https://interopmatrix.vmware.com/.
2. Click Upgrade Path.
3. For Solution select VMware Site Recovery Manager.

vCenter Server Requirements

Site Recovery Manager 8.5 is compatible with vCenter Server 6.7 and later versions. Site Recovery Manager supports the vCenter Server appliance (vCSA) on either or both of the protected and recovery sites.

For the most up to date vCenter Server compatibility, check the VMware Product Interoperability Matrixes.

1. Go to https://interopmatrix.vmware.com/Interoperability.
2. For Solution select VMware Site Recovery Manager.
3. For Version select All, or 8.5, or an update release.
4. For Platform/Solution select VMware vCenter Server.

ESXi Host Requirements

Site Recovery Manager 8.5 supports ESXi host 6.7 and later versions.

For the supported versions of vSAN, see KB 2150753.

For the most up to date ESXi host compatibility for Site Recovery Manager, check the VMware Product Interoperability Matrixes.

1. Go to https://interopmatrix.vmware.com/.
2. Click Interoperability.
3. For Solution select VMware Site Recovery Manager.
4. For Version select All, or 8.5.
5. For Platform/Solution select VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi).

vSphere Replication Requirements

Site Recovery Manager 8.5 is compatible with vSphere Replication 8.5. If your vSphere infrastructure is running a different version of vSphere Replication, you must upgrade to vSphere Replication 8.5 to use it with Site Recovery Manager 8.5. For information about the order in which to install vSphere Replication and Site Recovery Manager, see the relevant topics in the VMware Site Recovery Manager documentation center:

• Prerequisites and Best Practices for Site Recovery Manager Server Deployment

Interoperability with VMware Solutions

For details of the interoperability of Site Recovery Manager with other VMware solutions, check the VMware Product Interoperability Matrixes.

1. Go to https://interopmatrix.vmware.com/Interoperability.
2. For Solution select VMware Site Recovery Manager.
3. For Version select All, or 8.5.
4. For Platform/Solution select a VMware solution, product, or feature, for example VMware vRealize Orchestrator.
5. Click Check Interoperability.

Supported Database Software

The Site Recovery Manager 8.5 Virtual Appliance supports only the embedded vPostgres database that it installs on the host system.

Guest Operating System Support

Site Recovery Manager 8.5 supports the protection and recovery of virtual machines that run all of the guest operating systems that vSphere 6.7 and later versions support.

NOTE: If support for a guest operating system has been added in an update release of ESXi Server and Site Recovery Manager, to protect virtual machines that run those operating systems you must update ESXi Server to the corresponding update release as well as updating Site Recovery Manager. You must update ESXi Server on both the protected and recovery sites.

For the full list of guest operating systems that vSphere 6.7 and later versions support, check the online VMware Compatibility Guide.

1. Go to http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=software.
2. Select Guest OS from the What are you looking for? drop-down menu.
3. For Product Name select ESXi.
4. For Product Release Version select All or ESXi n, where n is a release of ESXi/ESX that Site Recovery Manager 8.5 supports.
5. To see all the supported versions of guest operating systems from an operating system vendor:
   1. For OS Family Name, select All.
   2. For OS Vendor , select the operating system vendor. For example, select Red Hat.
6. To check which updates of a particular operating system is supported:
   1. For OS Family Name, select the operating system. For example, select Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0.
   2. For OS Vendor , select All.
7. Click Update and View Results.

Guest Operating System Customization Support

Site Recovery Manager 8.5 supports guest operating system customization for all of the same guest operating systems for which vSphere 7.0 supports customization. See the VMware Guest OS Customization Support Matrix.

Customization of Linux guest operating systems requires that Perl is installed in the Linux guest operating system. For more information, see Guest Operating System Customization Requirements.

Site Recovery Manager 8.5 does not support IP customization of virtual machines with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x Guest OS.

NOTE: Site Recovery Manager 8.5 requires VMware Tools 10.1.0 and later.

NOTE: If support for IP customization of a guest operating system has been added in an update release of an ESXi host, to protect virtual machines that run those operating systems you must update the ESXi host to the corresponding update release as well as updating Site Recovery Manager. You must update the ESXi host on both the protected and recovery sites.

Storage Replication Adapter Support

For the full list of storage replication adapters supported by Site Recovery Manager 8.5, see http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=sra.

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