You use vSphere Replication with VMware Live Site Recovery in a shared recovery site configuration in the same way that you do in a standard configuration.

You deploy one vSphere Replication appliance on each protected site. You deploy only one vSphere Replication appliance on the shared recovery site. All of the vSphere Replication appliances on the protected sites connect to this single vSphere Replication appliance on the recovery site. You deploy the vSphere Replication appliances in the same way as for a standard one-to-one configuration.

Important: Deploy only one vSphere Replication appliance on the shared recovery site. If you deploy multiple vSphere Replication appliances on the shared recovery site, each new vSphere Replication appliance overwrites the registration of the previous vSphere Replication appliance with vCenter Server. This overwrites all existing replications and configurations.

You can deploy multiple additional vSphere Replication servers on the shared recovery site to distribute the replication load. For example, you can deploy on the shared recovery site a vSphere Replication server for each of the protected sites that connects to the shared recovery site. For information about protection and recovery limits when using vSphere Replication with VMware Live Site Recovery in a shared recovery site configuration, see Operational Limits of VMware Live Site Recovery.

Prerequisites

  • To use VMware Live Site Recovery with vSphere Replication, deploy the appropriate version of vSphere Replication on both of the protected and recovery sites before you install VMware Live Site Recovery Server. For information about compatibility between vSphere Replication and VMware Live Site Recovery versions, see vSphere Replication Requirements in the Compatibility Matrices for VMware Live Site Recovery 9.0 at https://docs.vmware.com/en/Site-Recovery-Manager/9.0/rn/compatibility-matrices-for-vmware-site-recovery-manager-90/index.html.
  • If you have existing vSphere Replication appliances on the sites, you must either upgrade them to the correct version or unregister them from both vCenter Server instances before you install VMware Live Site Recovery.

Procedure

  1. Deploy a vSphere Replication appliance on each of the protected sites.
  2. Deploy one vSphere Replication appliance on the shared recovery site.
  3. (Optional) Deploy additional vSphere Replication servers on the shared recovery site.
  4. (Optional) Register the additional vSphere Replication servers with the vSphere Replication appliance on the shared recovery site.
    The vSphere Replication servers become available to all VMware Live Site Recovery instances on the shared recovery site.