{"id":1647,"date":"2015-04-20T20:17:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T19:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2018-05-23T17:57:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T15:57:36","slug":"vsphere-replication-add-on-registration-and-folder-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/?p=1647","title":{"rendered":"vSphere Replication Add-On registration and Folder issue."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0Yet, once the Add-On vSphere Replication appliance was deployed,\u00a0I was not able to select it via the vSphere Web Client to add it, only the error message &#8220;<strong>Selected object is not a virtual machine. Select a virtual machine to register as vSphere Replication Server<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2015\/04\/Unable-to-register-vSphere-Replication-Add-On.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1648\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2015\/04\/Unable-to-register-vSphere-Replication-Add-On.jpg\" alt=\"Unable to register vSphere Replication Add-On\" width=\"749\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Unable-to-register-vSphere-Replication-Add-On.jpg 945w, https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Unable-to-register-vSphere-Replication-Add-On-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 749px) 100vw, 749px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After moving the new vSphere Replication appliance from my Bussink.org VM Folder back to the &#8216;Discovered virtual machine&#8217; folder, was I able to use the Register vSphere Replication server function.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2015\/04\/Register-vR-Add-On.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1649\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2015\/04\/Register-vR-Add-On.png\" alt=\"Register vR Add-On\" width=\"744\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Register-vR-Add-On.png 951w, https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Register-vR-Add-On-300x238.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once the VM is registered with the vSphere Replication server, moving it to my custom VM Folder (Bussink.org) is not an issue anymore.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0Yet, once the Add-On vSphere Replication appliance was deployed,\u00a0I was not able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[205,208,206,207,71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1651,"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions\/1651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}