VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.6.0.1 Release Notes

Site Recovery Manager 8.6.0.1 \| 18 JAN 2023 \| Build 21102724 \| Download Check for additions and updates to these release notes. VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.6.0.1 is a minor product patch release that provides bug fixes and improvements. The content of the VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.6 Release Notes applies to this version as well.

Site Recovery Manager 8.6.0.1 | 18 JAN 2023 | Build 21102724 | Download

Check for additions and updates to these release notes.

VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.6.0.1 is a minor product patch release that provides bug fixes and improvements. The content of the VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.6 Release Notes applies to this version as well.

What's New

The VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.6.0.1 Express Patch provides bug fixes.

Installation and Upgrade

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

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

If you are running Site Recovery Manager 8.6, upgrade to Site Recovery Manager 8.6.0.1. See Upgrading Site Recovery Manager in Site Recovery Manager 8.6 Installation and Configuration for instructions about upgrading Site Recovery Manager.

If you use vSphere Replication with Site Recovery Manager 8.6, upgrade the vSphere Replication appliance to version 8.6.0.1. See the vSphere Replication 8.6.0.1 Release Notes for information about vSphere Replication 8.6.0.1.

NOTES:

VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.5.x was the last general version that supports storage policy protection groups (SPPGs). You must either remove or migrate your SPPGs to regular array-based replication protection groups before upgrading to Site Recovery Manager 8.6.x. Site Recovery Manager 8.5.0.5 and later 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.
If the vCenter Server instances on the protected and recovery sites are in Enhanced Linked Mode, they must be direct replication partners. Otherwise, upgrade might fail.

Resolved Issues

New - The landing page for Site Recovery Manager is not working after upgrading from Site Recovery Manager 8.5.0.x to 8.6

If you open https://<SRM_IP> after performing an upgrade from Site Recovery Manager 8.5.0.x to 8.6, you get the following error [404]Page Not Found.

This issue is fixed in Site Recovery Manager 8.6.0.1.
New - Sporadic failures in IP customization steps are observed for SUSE Linux distribution
On SUSE Linux guest OS, IP customization fails sporadically with "Failed to authenticate with the guest operating system using the supplied credentials.". The log file of the recovered VM, located at /var/log/vmware-imc/srmDeployGuestAlias.log, contains entries similar to the following:
```
Wed Jan 26 08:57:36 2022 Getting vmtoolsd path.
Wed Jan 26 08:57:36 2022 ERROR: Could not find vmtoolsd path at : [vmtoolsd]
Wed Jan 26 08:57:36 2022 Completed with error; reporting exit code: -10003
```
This issue is fixed in Site Recovery Manager 8.6.0.1