SO glad I figured this one out!!!
When deploying the vSphere Replication appliance (VRA) for standalone vSphere replication, you deploy the servers, they connect to their local vCenters but when you try and pair the sites, you get this error:
"Site pairing or break operation failed."
AND THAT'S IT! No clues, no hints. no NOTHING.
As it turns out, this is a DNS issue. Here is how to fix it.
1) Log into all 4 servers, ProdVC, DRVC, Prod VRA, DR VRA, and make sure you can do forward and revers nslookups for all servers.
2) Log into the VAMI for the two VRAs
3) Unregister the VRA from vCenter
4) Make sure that the local site name field and the vCenter field are FQDN, not short name, not IP, FQDN!
5) Save and restart for both VRAs
6) Log out and back into both of the vCenter Server web clients
7) Pair your sites
Hope this helps somebody, I nearly broke my skull while beating my head against the wall on this one!
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