This issue may occur in VR environments that have one or more of these network configurations:
- Network Address Translation (NAT) is used between the two replication sites.
- A firewall is configured between the two replication sites and the firewall rules are blocking network ports required for vSphere Replication.
Note: Using NAT in a vSphere Replication environment where some VR components have external IP addresses and others have internal addresses that is not supported.