I am in the process of installing / testing SRM 5.0 and would like to test vSphere Replication as well. I have been struggling to create the (SQL Server) database for the VRM appliance and have still not been succesfull in getting the appliance properly configured. It keeps complaining about the DB configuration. Are there any specific settings I need to be aware of in installing SQL Server and creating the VRM database ?
I'm not a SQL Server person, but setting up the DB for vCenter and for SRM has not been a problem. It's just VRM ..