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What's in the Release Notes

These release notes cover the following topics:

• What's New in VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.5.0.5
• Installation and Upgrade
• Migration to the VMware Site Recovery Manager Virtual Appliance
• Resolved Issues

What's New in VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.5.0.5

• The VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.5.0.5 Express Patch provides bug fixes.
• VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.5.0.5 has a dedicated Storage Policy Protection Group (SPPG) migration tool that you can use to migrate your SPPGs to regular array-based replication protection groups. See, Migrating Storage Policy Protection Groups to Array-Based Replication Protection Groups to learn how to use the tool.

Installation and Upgrade

For information about installing and upgrading VMware Site Recovery Manager, see Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration.

For the supported upgrade paths for VMware Site Recovery Manager, select Upgrade Path and VMware Site Recovery Manager in the  VMware Product Interoperability Matrix.

If you are running Site Recovery Manager 8.5, upgrade to Site Recovery Manager 8.5.0.5. See Upgrading Site Recovery Manager in Site Recovery Manager 8.5 Installation and Configuration for instructions about upgrading Site Recovery Manager.

If you use vSphere Replication with Site Recovery Manager 8.5, upgrade the vSphere Replication appliance to version 8.5.0.5. See the vSphere Replication 8.5.0.5 Release Notes for information about vSphere Replication 8.5.0.5.

Migration to the VMware Site Recovery Manager Virtual Appliance

You can migrate your Site Recovery Manager 8.3.x instance from Windows to the Site Recovery Manager 8.3.x virtual appliance and then upgrade to Site Recovery Manager 8.5.0.5 Virtual Appliance. For information about the migration procedure, see Migrate from Site Recovery Manager for Windows to Site Recovery Manager Virtual Appliance.

 

Resolved Issues

• NEW The Site Recovery Manager service restarts periodically

  An increased memory usage by the srm-service due to repeated protection synchronization with vCenter Server might cause a service restart.

  This issue is resolved in Site Recovery Manager 8.5.0.5.

• NEW After deploying the Site Recovery Manager appliance by using an OVF template, all the network information is missing

  When you power on the Site Recovery Manager appliance after deploying it by using an OVF template, all the network information is missing. When the DNS is set to "xxx, xxx", the second DNS IP includes the leading space character. This causse DNS parse error.

  This issue is resolved in Site Recovery Manager 8.5.0.5.

• NEW The srm-server service is down when performing Reprotect 

  When performing Reprotect of a Recovery plan with storage policy protection groups and stretched storage, during the Verify step of the Reprotect operation, the stretched storage SRA returns different keys and IDs for the source and the target devices. This might cause the srm-service to go down.

  This issue is fixed in Site Recovery Manager 8.5.0.5.

• NEW Upgrading from Site Recovery Manager 8.3.1.6 to Site Recovery Manager 8.5.0.4 fails

  After upgrading Site Recovery Manager from version 8.3.1.6 to 8.5.0.4, the appliance does not request a reconfigure and the srm-server service is down.

  This issue is fixed in Site Recovery Manager 8.5.0.5.

• NEW You receive a warning during storage configuration

  During the Storage Configuration step you receive the following warning: "Warning - Cannot complete the operation due to an incorrect request to the server." There is no impact on the virtual machine functionality, the VM boots fine and is accessible after performing a Test recovery or Disaster Recovery.

  This issue is fixed in Site Recovery Manager 8.5.0.5.

• NEW Cannot download support bundle

  When you attempt to download a support bundle, you receive Need authorization message and the operation fails.

  This issue is fixed in Site Recovery Manager 8.5.0.5.

• NEW Cannot perform failover

  Site Recovery Manager cannot perform a failover. Same device IDs across different array pairs cause configuration issues with the Site Recovery Manager protection groups.

  This issue is fixed in Site Recovery Manger 8.5.0.5.

• NEW When re-running a recovery plan, the vMotion option is not available to check or uncheck

  When re-running a recovery plan, the vMotion option is not available to check or uncheck. As cross vCenter Server vMotion is a Site Recovery Manager enterprise feature, the execution of the recovery plan immediately fails with "Not enough licenses". 

  This issue is fixed in Site Recovery Manager 8.5.0.5.

• NEW After performing a failover, the recovered virtual machine icon shows 3 dots

  If you manually map the protected disk of a virtual machine to another disk or detach the disk in the VM protection properties under the protection group, the recovered VM icon shows 3 dots after performing a failover as if it is still a placeholder VM.

  This issue is fixed in Site Recovery Manager 8.5.0.5.