Installing and configuring VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension to a Linux machine

You can install VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension on different Linux distributions.

The VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension installation and configuration consist of deploying and configuring not only the VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension services, but also of configuring all external components to work with VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension.

For scaling purposes, you can deploy and configure multiple instances of VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension behind a load balancer.

Following is a list of the steps you take to install and configure VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension:

1. Install the VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension installation package.
2. Import an externally signed SSL certificate to VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension.
3. Connect to a preconfigured database.
4. Connect to an instance of VMware Cloud Director.
5. Configure the VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension endpoint region information.
6. Install the VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension user interface.
7. Configure the connection to the storage platform components or the AWS services.