Before you can use VMware Live Site Recovery in offline mode, you must create and apply an offline license key.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the vSphere Client and select Site Recovery from the left navigation.
  2. Select a Site Recovery Manager instance, and click Open Site Recovery.
  3. Click Connect to VMware Live Recovery.
  4. In the Connect to VMware Live Recovery wizard, select the vCenter Server that you want to connect to VMware Live Recovery and click Next.
  5. Select the Site Recovery Manager server to use to connect to VMware Live Recovery cloud services and click Enter an offline license key.
  6. Copy or download the Change request key and select the checkbox to confirm that offline sites have limited functionality.
    Note: Keep the the Site Recovery UI open. You will return to it to enter the offline license key. Closing the window invalidates the change request key.
  7. Log in to the VMware Live Recovery global console and select the VMware Live Recovery tile.
  8. From the Set Up Deployment drop-down menu, select Create offline license key.
  9. Paste or upload the change request key you just generated in the VMware Live Site Recovery UI, and click Next.
  10. Under New license information, define the license by entering the number of VMs you want to protect and set an expiration date. Confirm that you understand that after clicking Next, the license will be created and the number of protected VMs in use will immediately increase, and click Next.
    Note: The offline license key is unique for the site pair for which it was generated. You cannot use the key for a different VMware Live Site Recovery site pair.
  11. Copy or download the license key and click Finish.
    You can access the license key from the VMware Live Site Recovery pair deployment tile.
  12. Switch back to the Site Recovery UI, paste or upload the license key, and click Activate.
    You can see the information about your offline license in the Summary tab under Entitlement.

Results

VMware Live Site Recovery is ready to use in offline mode.

What to do next

If you want to modify the parameters of your offline license, you can do so within the limits of your VMware Live Recovery subscription. For example, if you have a subscription for 1000 VMs, you can decrese or increase the number of protected VMs up to that number. You can also change the expiration date up to the term of your subscription. To modify the parameters of the offline license key, you must first Remove the offline mode license for VMware Live Site Recovery and then generate and apply a new offline license key.