Enhanced replication option is missing after upgrade to vSphere Replication 9.0

Products

• VMware Live Recovery

Issue/Introduction

After upgrading to vSphere Replication 9.0, the Configure Replication Dialogue box only shows Legacy replication as an option:

 

Cause

In previous versions of vSphere Replication it was recommended to disable scale-out-mode due to a known issue and the option to disable the embedded HBR server was available. These configuration changes have been seen to persist through an upgrade.

Re-balancing replications between Hbrsrvuws In this KB we recommended disabling scale-out-mode due to a legacy replication load balancing issue.

This issue does not apply with enhanced replication as the replication jobs are load balanced on the target ESXi hosts.

vSphere Replication 8.8 documentation in this document we discussed the disabling of the embedded HBR

The embedded HBR server is a critical requirement for enhanced replication to work.

Resolution

In order to fix this issue you need to change some settings on the vSphere replication appliance.

1. Ensure the SSH service is enabled on the vSphere Replication appliance.
2. Connect to the vSphere replication appliance using an ssh client.
3. Re-enable both scale-out-mode and hms-embedded-hbr using the following commands once you are connected
   /opt/vmware/hms/bin/hms-configtool -cmd reconfig -property hms-embedded-hbr=true
/opt/vmware/hms/bin/hms-configtool -cmd reconfig -property scale-out-mode=true
service hms restart
4. After both options are enabled and the HMS service is restarted the enhanced replication option becomes available.