SRM vCenter connection

[deadheadHS]

Hi all,

I have recently upgraded my vCenter and ESXi hosts from version 5.1 to 5.5. Upon accessing SRM I received a 503 error saying it was unable to connect to the Site Recovery Server.

Upon further investigation I have found that my SSL Certificate on the server has expired, and through some blog posts have found that running a modify on the SRM installation can resolve this issue. However running the installation I receive the attached error when trying to connect to vCenter. I have tried creating a new account locally on the vCenter server and giving it admin persmissions over vCenter however the issue remains.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[rcporto]

Did you upgraded the SRM as part of upgrade process, or just the vCenter and the ESXi hosts? I ask that because SRM 5.1 is not supported with vCenter 5.5, see the interop matrix: VMware Product Interoperability Matrices

[deadheadHS]

Hi,

I am using version 5.5.1 - 2170717.

[rcporto]

Can you confirm the exact build version of vCenter server you're using? If you're running vCenter 5.5 Update 3b or later, the following may help: RaviTech: " Internal Error: Unexpected error code: -1. " During SRM upgrade to 5.5.1

[deadheadHS · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I have managed to resolved the issue. In vCenter 5.5 update 3b SSLv3 was disabled. However SRM requires this to be enabled.

I have updated the c:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\vpxd.cfg file to enable SSLv3.

This can be done by adding the following:

<sslOptions>16924672</sslOptions>

example:

<vmacore>

<ssl>

<sslOptions>16924672</sslOptions>

</ssl>

</vmacore>