Users Guide

Replay Manager Service for VMware
Replay Manager Service for VMware (RMSV) enables Replay Manger to communicate with VMware vCenter and create consistent
Replays of VMware virtual machines and datastores on a Dell Storage Center.
RMSV Data Migration
CITV 4.0 introduces a major update to the base operating system and requires a side-by-side update from the CITV 3.1 virtual appliance to a
CITV 4.0 virtual appliance.
You can choose to migrate the RMSV data created in CITV 3.1 to CITV 4.0 during the RMSV conguration process (see Conguring
RMSV). This one-time data migration from CITV 3.1 to CITV 4.0. CITV will prompt you to migrate data until one of the following conditions
is met:
• You have already migrated data from CITV 3.1 to CITV 4.0.
• You chose to congure CITV 4.0 without migrating the earlier data.
After you congure RMSV, the data migration option no longer displays and you can no longer migrate data from the earlier release.
NOTE
: The number of restore points will increase the time it takes for the data migration to nish.
After migration, the following data becomes accessible to CITV 4.0:
• List of dened Storage Centers
• Email service settings and snapshot notications email
• License status and serial number information
• Jobs schedule
• Backup sets and restore point status reports
• Related virtual machine and datastore backup data
NOTE
: If you are running CITV prior to version 3.1, you must rst upgrade to CITV 3.1, using the upgrade option available in the
earlier version. Then, you can migrate the data from CITV 3.1 to CITV 4.0 as indicated.
Conguring RMSV
To allow Replay Manager to communicate with VMware vCenter, RMSV must be congured with information about the VMware vCenter
Server.
Prerequisites
CAUTION
: Errors might occur on the VMware ESXi host if multiple instances of RMSV, on multiple CITV virtual appliances, are
congured to communicate with a single VMware vCenter Server. Each instance of RMSV must be congured to communicate
with a dierent VMware vCenter Server.
• Deploy CITV and congure the time zone and network settings.
• Identify the host name or IP address of the VMware vCenter Server.
• Identify the user name and password of a VMware vCenter user with administrator privileges.
• Decide whether you want to migrate RMSV data from CITV 3.1. For more information, see RMSV Data Migration
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