When you deploy the Cyber Recovery connector from the vCenter Server UI, you select the host, cluster, and resource pool for the connector.
Before you begin:
- Do not name the Cyber Recovery connector VM using the same naming conventions you use to name VMs in your vSphere environment. Avoid giving the connector VM a name that might match the VM name pattern you use when you define protection groups.
- If you are deploying the Cyber Recovery connector to a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC with more than one cluster, you must choose a cluster to deploy the connector VM on. Each cluster in your SDDC needs the connector VM deployed on it in order for the VMs running there to be added to protection groups and replicated to a cloud backup site.
- Configure NTP on all ESXI hosts in the cluster where you plan to deploy the Cyber Recovery connector. For more information, see Configuring Network Time Protocol (NTP) on an ESXi host using the vSphere Client.
Note: If you are deploying the
Cyber Recovery connector for a Google Cloud VMware Engine protected site, see
Google Cloud documentation for information about logging in to vSphere from Google Cloud.
Procedure
- In vSphere, select any inventory object that is a valid parent object of a virtual machine, such as a data center, folder, cluster, resource pool, or host.
- Right-click the object and select Actions → Deploy OVF Template.
- Click Next.
- In the Deploy OVF Template dialog box, Step 1, Select an OVF template, paste the connector OVA URL into the URL field. The exact URL to download the connector OVA displays in the Download Connector dialog box. For example: https://<vmware-live-recovery-ip-address/cloud-connector.ova.
- Click Next.
- Next, specify a name for the connector. Do not use non-ASCII characters for the connector name. Use a name that is different than the naming conventions you use to name VMs in your vSphere environment, to avoid this VM being included in a snapshot.
- Below the name, choose a location for the connector and then click Next.
- Select a compute resource for the connector. If this vSphere is a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC with more than one cluster, choose a cluster to deploy the connector VM on. For an SDDC, each cluster you want to protect must have the Cyber Recovery connector VM deployed on it.
- Click Next.
- Review the details for your connector deployment, then click Next to select storage for the connector VM.
- Select a datastore for the connector and then click Next.
- Select the network to use for the connector, and then click Next to review the deployment details.
- Click Finish. You can now find the connector VM in your vSphere client.
- Click on Edit settings and select Virtual Hardware. Enter the CPU and memory reservation as described in System and Network Requirements for the Cyber Recovery connector.
