To initiate a trust establishment between two cloud sites backed by VMware Cloud Director, where each one runs a VMware Cloud Director Availability instance, first initiate pairing from either of the two sites. Then, to complete establishing the trust, repeat the pairing procedure in the remote site.
To pair site A and site B, repeat the steps twice and perform the pairing procedure in both cloud sites:
- In cloud site A, initiate pairing with a remote cloud site B.
- In cloud site B, complete pairing with site A.
Prerequisites
- Verify that, before pairing sites, the versions of VMware Cloud Director Availability in both sites can interoperate together. For information about the sites interoperability, see Managing pairing with Cloud Director sites.
- Verify that in both cloud sites, all the VMware Cloud Director Availability appliances are successfully configured:
- Cloud Director Replication Management Appliance
- Replicator Appliance instances
- Tunnel Appliance instances
Procedure
- Log in to the management interface of the Cloud Director Replication Management Appliance.
- In a Web browser, go to https://Appliance-IP-Address/ui/admin.
- Select Appliance login or SSO login and enter the root or the single sign-on user credentials.
- Click Login.
- In the left pane under Configuration, click Peer Sites.
- On the Peer Sites page, click New cloud pairing.
- In the New Cloud Pairing window, configure the pairing with the remote cloud site, and to initiate the trust between the local and the remote cloud sites click Pair.
Option |
Description |
Site name |
Enter a local site name, exactly matching the remote cloud site name. |
Public Service Endpoint |
|
Description |
Optionally, enter a description for the paired cloud site. |
- Complete the first half of the pair process.
- Verify the thumbprint and accept the remote Cloud Service SSL certificate.
- In the Additional actions required window, click OK.
VMware Cloud Director Availability initiates the trust between the two cloud sites.
Visit the Cloud Service in the Site name and complete the pairing operation.
- To complete the pairing between both sites, log in to the remote cloud site and repeat this procedure for pairing with the local site.
VMware Cloud Director Availability establishes the trust between the two cloud sites.
- Under Peer Sites, verify that the new cloud site is listed and does not show any errors.
- Before creating any replications, verify that as a provider you added each Cloud Service instance for metering in VMware vCloud® Usage Meter.
What to do next
After ensuring the
Cloud Service instances are metered by vCloud Usage Meter, you can now start creating and managing replications. You can configure new replications, after modifying the default replication policy for both the source and for the destination organization to allow replications. Alternatively, a custom replication policy that is assigned to the source and to the destination organizations must allow replications. For information about the replication policy, see
Configuring replication policies in the
User Guide.