In Azure VMware Solution, as a provider, run commands for installing or deleting a VMware Cloud Director Availability instance, for taking and deleting the appliances snapshots, repairing the Replicator Appliance or the vCenter Server Lookup service, or for resetting either the password of the service account or of the root user of the appliances.

Run command for performing any administrative actions with the VMware Cloud Director Availability instance in Azure VMware Solution.

For information about using run command, see Run Command in Azure VMware Solution in the Azure VMware Solution documentation.

Prerequisites

  • Verify that you can access the Microsoft Azure Portal by using an account with sufficient privileges for using the Azure VMware Solution service.
  • Verify that the VMware-Cloud-Director-Availability-Provider-release.number.xxxxxxx-build_sha_OVF10.ova version 4.7 or later is uploaded under the correct datastore.
  • Verify that the subnet, DNS zone and records for the VMware Cloud Director Availability appliances are configured.
  • Verify that the subnet has outbound Internet connectivity to communicate with: VMware Cloud Director service, remote VMware Cloud Director Availability sites, and the upgrade repository.
  • Verify that the DNS zone has forwarding for the public IP addresses supposed to be reached by VMware Cloud Director Availability outside of the local network segment.
  • Verify that the Azure VMware Solution private cloud is configured.
  • Verify that the Cloud Director service is associated, and the Transport Proxy is configured with the Azure VMware Solution private cloud SDDC.

Procedure

  1. Run command for VMware Cloud Director Availability in Azure VMware Solution.
    1. Log in to the Microsoft Azure Portal at https://portal.azure.com/.
    2. In the left pane, under Operations click Run command.
    3. Under the Packages tab, expand the VMware.VCDA.AVSPowerShell Module for Managing VMware Cloud Director Availability on Azure VMware Solution.
  2. Select a command from the VMware Cloud Director Availability Run command glossary, enter all of its corresponding properties then click the Run button.
  3. View these commands execution status and command-line output.
    1. Click the Run execution status tab.
    2. To see the command-line output, in the right pane click the Information tab.

Results

By using the above run command, perform various management operations with VMware Cloud Director Availability in Azure VMware Solution.

What to do next

You can replicate workloads with VMware Cloud Director Availability in Azure VMware Solution. For more information, see Replicating workloads in the User Guide.