vSphere Replication Add-On registration and Folder issue.

While deploying recently the vSphere Replication solution on an infrastructure, I found myself confronted with a strange situation. I had deployed the vSphere Replication 6.0 appliance (Management and Replication), I was looking to add a 2nd vSphere Replication appliance to the primary site. Yet, once the Add-On vSphere Replication appliance was deployed, I was not able to select it via the vSphere Web Client to add it, only the error message “Selected object is not a virtual machine. Select a virtual machine to register as vSphere Replication Server.”

Unable to register vSphere Replication Add-On

 

After moving the new vSphere Replication appliance from my Bussink.org VM Folder back to the ‘Discovered virtual machine’ folder, was I able to use the Register vSphere Replication server function.

Register vR Add-On

Once the VM is registered with the vSphere Replication server, moving it to my custom VM Folder (Bussink.org) is not an issue anymore.