VMware has once again stepped up its game with the introduction of VMware Live Recovery, a comprehensive solution designed to safeguard applications across the hybrid cloud. As part of this new suite, two cornerstone products have undergone significant transformations: VMware Site Recovery Manager has been rebranded as VMware Live Site Recovery, and VMware Cloud DR…
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VMware Site Recovery Manager is getting patch to resolve CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046.
VMware just published a patch for SRM 8.5.0.2 where Apache log4j is updated to version 2.16 to resolve CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046. If you are running Site Recovery Manager 8.5, upgrade to Site Recovery Manager 8.5.0.2. See Upgrading Site Recovery Manager in Site Recovery Manager 8.5 Installation and Configuration for instructions about upgrading Site Recovery Manager. If you use vSphere…
Read moreWorkaround instructions to address CVE-2021-44228 in Site Recovery Manager
As we are still waiting for patch to be released, here is a workaround provided by VMware which need to be applied to Site Recovery Manager. Run list: Make sure SSH access is enabled (appliance at 8.3 or newer) Login to SRM Appliance Manager Interface as admin Click ACCESS In the SSH pane, click Enable…
Read moreMigrating from SRM 8.3 Windows to SRM 8.4 Virtual Appliance
It is time to leave Windows machines and change your SRM to Virtual Appliance. SRM 8.4 runs on Photon OS and it is deployed as OVF template. Depend on the version of SRM you are running, you may need few steps upgrade. Appliance starts from version 8.2.0 build 13481390 If you run SRM 8.1.X Windows…
Read moreSRDF SRA 9.2.0.1 Hot Fix installation with SRM appliance.
After successful installation of SRM appliance (you can read about it here) it is time now to install and configure SRDF SRA. There are few things you need to know before installing SRDF: The version I am presenting here is a Hot Fix not GA The HF has not been tested and certified by VMware…
Read moreSRM 8.4 Appliance – clean installation and configuration
Today I will show you how to perform clean installation and configuration of Site Recovery Manager 8.4. The process of this is pretty straight forward. INSTALATION: Download ISO from VMware website. Login to vCenter. Deploy OVF from local. There are 5 files inside bin folder. You need to include all 5 of them. Chose location…
Read moreSRM appliance, appliance no networking detected.
UPDATE for SRM 8.X and 9.X! *********************************************************************************************************** As the useful tool /opt/vmware/share/vami/vami_config_net is no longer available in these versions, you can use the following command to change or set up the network: bashCopy codenetmgr ip4_address –set –interface <ifname> –mode <dhcp|static|none> –addr <ipv4_address/prefix> –gateway <gateway_address> For more details, refer to the official Photon OS documentation:Photon CLI:…
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