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I publish this problem and its resolution in a hope that it will help others. A few months after the installation the HBR component of the SRM partly failed. Our setup has one VRMS and two VRS appliances, and a few dozens of replicated VMs. One third of the replications stuck and it turned out that all of them were handled by the VRMS appliance at the destination site.

The source ESXi hosts logged a lot of refused connections to the VRMS appliance. Because of this I suspected firewall misconfiguration, but tcpdump proved that TCP requests arrive to the appliance and refused by it. Finally it turned out that the hbrsrv daemon doesn't run on the VRMS so TCP ports 34031 andd 44046 are closed.

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Yes, the account expired. I changed the account to never-expire with "chage hbrsrv", rebooted the VRMS appliance and all stuck replication started to work. Just to be on the safe side I checked the same account on the VRS appliances but both of them was set to Never expire.

I had the same thing last week with the VRMS appliances. Like you I was looking at the network to see where the replication ports were being blocked. After reading this thread Re: Replication Server Error:127.0.0.1:8123 I came across yours which pointed me in the right direction. Thanks

The net result is certificate errors during usage, and your VC can not query the vSphere Replication management appliance to find out its health. Both the VC and VRMS believe they are using correct certs, so they carry on running normally, but the communication channel for querying health is not handshaking correctly.

In this article, we will not discuss all of the details around how it works, but at a high level, changed data for each protected VM is replicated from vSphere hosts at the source location to one or more vSphere Replication virtual appliance(s) at the target location. The vSphere Replication appliance(s) then write this replicated data to vSphere storage at the target location. This often raises questions about what happens if these vSphere Replication appliances go offline or are lost. That is what we will cover in this article.

Before we get into some scenarios, it is important to understand there are two types of vSphere Replication appliances: The first is the vSphere Replication Management Server (VRMS). This is the first appliance deployed and it performs a variety of management and authentication functions for the vSphere Replication environment. A VRMS appliance also contains the vSphere Replication Server (VRS) component, which receives replicated data from the source vSphere host(s) and writes this replicated data to storage. The replicated data for a VM at the target location is typically referred to as a replica. The second type of vSphere Replication appliance is a VRS appliance, which contains only the VRS component.

There is exactly one VRMS appliance per vCenter Server environment. In many cases, this is the only vSphere Replication appliance you need to deploy since it handles management and also receives replicated data. In other cases, one or more VRS appliances may be deployed to accommodate different use cases, increase scale, and cover various replication topologies. Up to nine VRS appliances can be deployed in addition to the VRMS appliance for a maximum of 10 vSphere Replication appliances per vCenter Server.

With the VRMS appliance offline, it is not possible to recover VMs with vSphere Replication. There are some third party articles out there that suggest it is possible to manually alter the files at the target location that make up the replica and recover a VM. While this is possible, I do not recommend relying on that recovery method as it is a very manual process and, more importantly, not supported by VMware.

Now the good news in this scenario: Replication to other VRS appliances in the environment will continue, as configured. It is not possible to change the replication configuration until the VRMS appliance is back online. When the VRMS appliance comes back online, replication going to the VRMS appliance automatically resumes, management functionality is restored, and it is possible to recover VMs with vSphere Replication.

There are many more alarms that can be configured for vSphere Replication, but these two will likely be the best indicators of an issue with a vSphere Replication appliance. Here are a few more recommendations to help ensure your vSphere Replication environment stays online:

Important: After you upgrade to vSphere Replication 8.4, you must use the admin account to access the virtual appliance console and the VRMS Appliance Management Interface, instead of the root account. See step 12 of the procedure.

vSphere Replication includes an agent built into vSphere and one or more virtual appliances deployed using vSphere Web Client. The agent tracks and sends changed data from a running virtual machine to a vSphere Replication appliance at a remote site; the appliance then adds the replicated data to the offline replica copy for that virtual machine. The vSphere Replication virtual appliance also manages and monitors the replication process. This gives administrators visibility into virtual machine protection status and the ability to recover virtual machines with a few clicks.

VMware offers many appliances for their products. Unfortunately they are not all created equally. The installation and configuration procedures differ for most appliances and also the default usernames and passwords are different throughout the range of appliances. So here is a list of default usernames and passwords. For as far as I know them, if you miss one please let me know and I will add it to this list.

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I was in middle of upgrading vSphere Replication Appliance in our environment. I forgot the password of vSphere Replication appliance. It is a cmmon usecase for everyone, becuase it is quite difficult to remember password for each appliance, and offcourse, sometimes we forget to add in Password Vault. Follow below process to reset the password.

I followed along with the suggested work around to use FQDN vs IP in the configuration setup and that still didn't work for me. I use DNS in my home lab because I'm a good sysadmin. But for some reason I kept on getting this error popping. So I went into the appliance and found out that the two sites couldn't ping each other without the FQDN. If i just used the simple hostname, then it would not be able to ping. If i used FQDN, then I could ping. /etc/hosts to the rescue.

If you are having a problem with getting these two pairing to work, then DO NOT sit there and remove the appliance and rebuild it 4x like i did. simply edit the hosts file of each VM and add the vCenter servers of both sides. To do so

This is needed because the appliance is not given a hostname of hostname with a domain during deployment. Don't bother trying to give the appliance a hostname either. As soon as you reboot the appliance, the hostname "record" will re-appear. The /etc/hosts file on the other hand will be persistent across reboots

Now, the first virtual appliance that we are going to deploy is called the vSphere Replication Management server (VRMS) which handles integration with the vCenter server, authentication, replicates data and keeps a database of what VMs need to be replicated to the disaster recovery site. This is mandatory to have at both locations, main site and disaster recovery site. For most of the times deploying this one appliance is enough, but for large environments additional vSphere Replication server appliances will need to be deployed in order to balance the load. A vSphere Replication server will not do the management stuff that VRMS does, it only helps balance the VMs replication load.

Select the number of CPUs to assign to the appliance based on the load it will have. By default the appliance is configured with four CPUs, and this what we are going to use for this lab also. Click Next.

Select the disk format type for the appliance virtual disks then select the datastore or datastore cluster where to put these virtual disks. In a production environment I recommend you go for Thin Provisioned Eager Zeroed disk type since it provides better performance and only use Thin Provision in a lab environment, like we are right now. Click Next when you are done with your selections.

This screen just informs us that the appliance requires a binding to the vCenter Extension Service in order to register itself as a vCenter Extension. Since there is nothing to configure here just click Next to continue the wizard.

On the Ready to complete page, click the Finish button to deploy the appliance. If you check the box Power on after deployment, the VM will be automatically started after the deployment is finished.

Now that the VRMAs are deployed in both sites, the next steps are to attach them to our vCenter servers and to configure the type of database the VRMAs should use. To begin, open a web browser of your choice and type in the IP address or FQDN of the virtual appliance followed by port 5480 (https://:5480). This is the IP address that we set up during the deployment wizard. One thing I need to mention is that a VRMA can only be attached to a single vCenter server, so in our case we will attach the VMRA from the production environment to the production vCenter server and the VRMA form the DR site to the vCenter server in that site.

To configure the appliance with a remote database, just select the Manual configuration radio button then select the type of database you want to use, SQL server or Oracle. In this example however, we are going to use the default option and go with the embedded database since it works and scales just great even for large environments. 17dc91bb1f