You deploy multiple VMware Live Site Recovery Server instances that all extend the same vCenter Server instance on the shared recovery site.

The VMware Live Site Recovery Server instances that you deploy on a shared recovery site each correspond to a VMware Live Site Recovery Server on a protected site.

Prerequisites

  • You created one or more protected sites, each with a VMware Live Site Recovery Server instance for which you configured a unique VMware Live Site Recovery Extension ID.
  • This information presumes knowledge of the standard procedure for deploying VMware Live Site Recovery. See Deploy the Site Recovery Manager Virtual Appliance for information about a standard VMware Live Site Recovery deployment.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the VMware Live Site Recovery Appliance Management Interface as admin.
  2. Click the Summary tab, and click Configure appliance.
  3. On the Platform Services Controller page, enter the information about the site where you deployed the VMware Live Site Recovery Appliance.
    Menu Item Description
    Address

    Enter the host name (in lowercase letters) or IP address of the vCenter Server with which to register VMware Live Site Recovery.

    PSC port

    Accept the default value of 443, or enter a new value if vCenter Server uses a different port.

    vCenter Server only supports connections over HTTPS.

    User name

    Enter the vCenter Single Sign-On user name for the vCenter Single Sign-On domain to which this vCenter Server instance belongs. This user account must be a member of the vCenter Single Sign-On administrator group on the vCenter Server instance.

    Password

    The password for the specified vCenter Single Sign-On user name.

  4. If prompted, click Connect to verify the vCenter Server certificate.
  5. On the vCenter Server page, select the vCenter Server instance with which to register the VMware Live Site Recovery Appliance, and click Next.
    Caution: The drop-down menu includes all the registered vCenter Server instances. In an environment that uses Enhanced Linked Mode, it might also include other vCenter Server instances. Make sure that you select the correct vCenter Server instance. After you configure the VMware Live Site Recovery Appliance, you cannot select a different vCenter Server instance.
  6. On the Name and Extension page, enter the necessary information to register the VMware Live Site Recovery with vCenter Server, and select the default VMware Live Site Recovery extension identifier, or create a custom extension identifier.
    1. Еnter the site name, administrator email address, and local host IP address or name.
      Menu Item Description
      Local site name A name for this VMware Live Site Recovery site, which appears in the VMware Live Site Recovery interface. The vCenter Server address is used by default. Use a different name for each VMware Live Site Recovery instance in the pair.
      Administrator email The email address of the VMware Live Site Recovery administrator. This information is required even though you use the standard vCenter Server alarms to configure email notifications for VMware Live Site Recovery events.
      Local host The name or IP address of the local host. Only change the value if the IP address is not the one that you want to use. For example, the local host might have more than one network interface, and the one that the VMware Live Site Recovery Appliance detects is not the interface that you want to use.
      Note: To facilitate IP address changes in your infrastructure, provide a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) whenever possible, rather than an IP address.
    2. Create a custom extension ID for this VMware Live Site Recovery pair as the partner of a Site Recovery Manager Server instance on a protected site, and click Next.
      Both VMware Live Site Recovery instances in a site pair must use the same extension ID.
      Menu Item Description
      Default extension ID

      Use this option when you deploy VMware Live Site Recovery in a standard configuration with one protected site and one recovery site.

      Custom extension ID

      Enter the same Site Recovery Manager ID as you provided for the corresponding VMware Live Site Recovery Server instance on the protected site.

      Enter the details for the custom extension ID.

      • Extension ID. A unique identifier. Assign the same identifier to the VMware Live Site Recovery instances on the protected site and the shared recovery site.
      • Organization. The name of the organization to which this VMware Live Site Recovery sites pair belongs. This name helps to identify VMware Live Site Recovery pairs in a shared recovery site configuration, especially when multiple organizations use the shared recovery site.
      • Description. An optional description of the VMware Live Site Recovery pair.
  7. On the Ready to Complete page, review your settings and click Finish.

What to do next

Repeat the procedure to configure further VMware Live Site Recovery Server instances on the shared recovery site, each with a VMware Live Site Recovery Extension ID that matches a VMware Live Site Recovery Server instance on another protected site. Each additional VMware Live Site Recovery Server instance that you deploy and configure on the recovery site connects to the vCenter Server instance. You can connect a maximum of 10 VMware Live Site Recovery Server instances to a single vCenter Server instance.