When we were playing around with Site Recovery Manager last week we had the opportunity to ask a bunch of questions to Lee Dilworth. Lee is a Specialist System Engineer for Site Recovery Manager. During the discussion Lee told us about a document that Horst Mundt, also a VMware employee, wrote about using trusted certificates. We received the document via email and I wanted to share this with you. After a quick search on the internet I noticed that Horst already uploaded his document to VI:OPS:
SRM establishes a secure connection between the protected and the recovery site.
There are two options for authentication: Credential based or certificate based.
If you install SRM into an existing environment, make sure to choose the method that is appropriate for your environment.
If you have not changed the default certificates that were installed by the VMware vCenter server setup then go for credential based authentication. You do not need to read the this document.
If you have installed SSL certificates issued by a trusted CA on your VMware vCenter servers then go for certificate based authentication. The document explains how certificates need to be setup in order for this to work.
Hi Duncan, I know it is an old post but the VI-OPS reference has changed. The document witten by Horst now is available at: http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-11411
Duncan,
I set up certificate based authentication, paired sites. Is it normal that after logging to the vCenter by vSphere client and choosing Home–> Solutions.. –> SRM, I have to type login and password for remote site?