Check the following:
If you connected the administrative computer to external USB storage during backup, you need to reconnect it to the same external storage.
Ensure that all ESX network (or portgroup) names are the same they were as prior to upgrade.
Ensure that the current Forge Hostname and IP address are the same as the previous Forge 4 host name and IP address.
Ensure that the current ESXi hostname is the same as the previous Forge 4 ESX hostname.
(Optional; for international versions) Set up PlateSpin Forge and your browser for use in a specific supported language. See Language Setup for International Versions of PlateSpin Forge
in the PlateSpin Forge 11.0 User Guide.
Configure appliance host networking to separate replication or failover traffic from your main production network. See Setting up Appliance Host Networking
in the PlateSpin Forge 11.0 User Guide.
Configure SMTP settings and add email notification recipients. For information, see Setting Up Automatic Email Notifications of Events and Reports
in the PlateSpin Forge 11.0 User Guide.
(Optional) Add additional data storage capacity to Forge. See Using External Storage Solutions with PlateSpin Forge
in the PlateSpin Forge 11.0 User Guide.
Familiarize yourself with the PlateSpin Forge Web Interface (see Up and Running
in your User Guide), as well as the workload protection life cycle (Basic Workflow for Workload Protection and Recovery
in the PlateSpin Forge 11.0 User Guide).