Hello,
I'm having a heck of a time getting VDR working on one of my clusters and have been searching these forums trying just about everything I can think of. Hopefully someone can shed some light on things for me.
I'm running vCenter 5 with an Enterprise Plus license, with VDR 2.0.1, connecting with vSphere 5.0.0. My hosts are ESXi 5.0.
The error I get in vSphere is "The Data Recovery Service did not start up. If the problem persists, pleaes restart or redeploy the Data Recovery Appliance".
Here are some details:
- I have restarted it several times
- Redeployed it about a dozen times
- Tried both version 2.0.0 and 2.0.1 of the appliance itself.
- I logged into the VDR appliance and can verify that the service is definitely started.
- DNS is working correctly between my vCenter, VDR and vSphere client (both ways)
- VDR has a a static IP and I can ping back and forth between vCenter/VDR/vSphere with no problems
- I tried running vSphere with the VDR Plug-in on my actual vCenter machine, no change
- Ensured that the plug-in is the latest, correct version (reinstalled it and installed it on a fresh client, just in case)
I'm looking at the logs, and I do see this:
"Rejecting non-SSL connection from client (my vSphere IP)"
I found a VMware KB article that says this error is caused by an outdated plug-in version, but I've already covered that step and both my VDR appliance and my Plug-In are from the same installation media.
I'm at a loss at to what I can try next - any insight would be appreciated.
