| Site Recovery Manager 8.7.0.2 | 20 JUL 2023 | Build 21950018 | Download Check for additions and updates to these release notes. VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.7.0.2 is a minor product patch release that provides bug fixes and improvements. The content of the VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.7 Release Notes and all following 8.7.0.x patch release notes applies to this version as well. |
What's New in Site Recovery Manager 8.7.0.2
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The VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.7.0.2 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 8.7.0.x, upgrade to Site Recovery Manager 8.7.0.2. See Upgrading Site Recovery Manager in Site Recovery Manager 8.7 Installation and Configuration for instructions about upgrading Site Recovery Manager.
If you use vSphere Replication with Site Recovery Manager 8.7.0.x, upgrade the vSphere Replication appliance to version 8.7.0.2. See the vSphere Replication 8.7.0.2 Release Notes for information about vSphere Replication 8.7.0.2.
NOTES:
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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 8.7.0.x Site Recovery Manager 8.5.0.5 and 8.6.x 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.
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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
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New - HSTS header is not added to the envoy proxy
In the Site Recovery Manager appliance, the HSTS header is not added to the envoy proxy on port 443.
This isssue is fixed in Site Recovery Manager 8.7.0.2.
If you are upgrading the Site Recovery Manager appliance to version 8.7.0.2 from an earlier version, you must manually restart the envoy proxy service after reconfiguring Site Recovery Manager post upgrade for the change to take effect. Run the following command:
systemctl restart envoy-proxy -
New - The recovery plan gets stuck after restarting Site Recovery Manager during a test recovery plan workflow
If you restart Site Recovery Manager during a test recovery plan workflow, and after that you rerun the interrupted recovery plan, the recovery plan might get stuck and not able to progress or be canceled. The recovery plan progress bar is stuck at 66%, and there are no recovery steps running.
This issue is fixed in Site Recovery Manager 8.7.0.2.
