vCenter name was not visible on the VAMI of the VR

Products

• VMware Live Recovery
• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

vCenter Server name was not visible on the VAMI of the VR after upgrading VR 8.7.

Environment

VMware vSphere Replication 8.x

Cause

vCenter server's hostname uses Upper and lower case.

For example: VMware-vCenter.server.local

Resolution

This issue is fixed in vSphere Replication 8.8 Support Documents and Downloads (broadcom.com).

Workaround:

Replacing vCenter server's host name to lower case in /opt/vmware/hms/conf/hms-configuration.xml .
 

Before:
   <!-- Local vCenter Server settings -->
   <hms-localvc-address>VMware-vCenter.server.local</hms-localvc-address>
:

After:
   <!-- Local vCenter Server settings -->
   <hms-localvc-address>vmware-vcenter.server.local</hms-localvc-address>
: