Functional Prerequisites

To install and use the vSphere Replication plug-in, your system must meet certain functional prerequisites.

vSphere Replication

Verify that the version of your vSphere Replication plug-in is compatible with your vSphere Replication.

For information about the compatibility between the vSphere Replication plug-in and vSphere Replication, see VMware vRealize Orchestrator Plug-In for vSphere Replication 8.2 Release Notes.

For information about setting up vSphere Replication, see the vSphere Replication Installation and Configuration documentation.

VMware vRealize Orchestrator

Verify that you have a running instance of VMware vRealize Orchestrator and its version is compatible with the versions of your vSphere Replication and vSphere Replication plug-in.

For information about the compatibility between vSphere Replication and vRealize Orchestrator, see the vSphere Replication 8.2 Release Notes and the Compatibility matrices for vSphere Replication documentation.

For information about setting up VMware vRealize Orchestrator, logging in the vRealize Orchestrator client, and available authentication methods, see the Installing and Configuring VMware VMware vRealize Orchestrator documentation.

Other Prerequisites

• Verify that you have installed the vCenter Server plug-in for VMware vRealize Orchestrator. See the Using the vCenter Server Plug-In topic in the VMware vRealize Orchestrator documentation.

• Verify that you have added all vCenter Server instances that you want to use for replications, by using the Add vCenter Server workflow. For more information, see the Configure the Connection to a vCenter Server Instance topic in the VMware vRealize Orchestrator documentation.