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Export the SRM data from Windows SRM Server.Stop the SRM service in Windows SRM Server.I categorize the migration steps into 6 steps to migrate windows SRM to SRM Virtual appliance Keep the appliance in Powered off state until we power off the windows before data export)
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Deploy the Site Recovery Manager Virtual Appliance (You can deploy the SRM appliance with the same hostname and IP address as in Windows.Stop the Site Recovery Manager Server Service on the Windows host machine.(If you are running SRM 8.1 on Windows, you have to first upgrade the SRM from 8.1 to SRM 8.2 on the windows server) Verify that you have upgraded your Site Recovery Manager for Windows instance to version 8.2.
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How to Migrate Windows SRM to SRM Virtual applianceīefore start migrating windows SRM to SRM virtual appliance, Let’s understand the pre-requisites for the migration. This is similar to the vCenter server appliance which makes the appliance administration simpler. This new virtual appliance, which can be installed directly from vCenter using the deploy OVF template wizard. VMware SRM virtual appliance is a photon OS-based virtual appliance. In this article, we will explain the detailed procedure on how to migrate Windows SRM to SRM Virtual Appliance.
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With the release of VMware SRM 8.2, VMware introduced the SRM virtual appliance. we still have windows based SRM but VMware strongly recommends to migrate it to appliance-based Site Recovery Manager. Till the release of VMware SRM 8.2, SRM can only be installed on Windows operating systems. In the movement of the software from windows to appliance-based, the last piece was the VMware Site Recovery Manager. Instaling VMware Softwares on windows servers need an additional administrative overhead of managing the operating systems and operating system patches. VMware has already moved most of its software such as vCenter Server, etc into the appliance-based rather than depending on Windows OS.