In a shared recovery site configuration, you connect the VMware Live Site Recovery sites in the same way as for a standard one-to-one configuration.

If you start the site connection from one of the protected sites, VMware Live Site Recovery uses the VMware Live Site Recovery ID that you set during installation to connect to the corresponding VMware Live Site Recovery Server instance on the recovery site.

Prerequisites

  • You installed VMware Live Site Recovery Server on one or more protected sites.
  • You installed one or more VMware Live Site Recovery Server instances on a shared recovery site.
  • You assigned the same VMware Live Site Recovery extension ID to a VMware Live Site Recovery Server instance on a protected site and to a VMware Live Site Recovery Server instance on the shared recovery site.

Procedure

  1. In the vSphere Client, click Site Recovery > Open Site Recovery.
  2. Click the New Site Pair button.
  3. Select the first site from the list. Enter the address of the vCenter Server for the VMware Live Site Recovery Server on the second site, provide the user name and password, and click Next.
    The address that you provide for the vCenter Server must be an exact match of the of address that you provided when you installed VMware Live Site Recovery Server on the recovery site.
    Important: To facilitate IP address changes in your infrastructure, provide a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) whenever possible, rather than an IP address.
  4. Select the vCenter Server and the services you want to pair, and click Next.
    If several VMware Live Site Recovery Server instances are registered with this vCenter Server instance, VMware Live Site Recovery connects to the VMware Live Site Recovery Server instance that has the corresponding VMware Live Site Recovery ID.
  5. On the Ready to complete page, review the pairing settings, and click Finish.
  6. Repeat Step 1 to Step 4 to configure the site pairing for all of the sites that use the shared recovery site.