This procedure demonstrates how to deploy all cloud services providing disaster recovery with a single installer appliance by using the vSphere Web Client.

You install all vCloud Availability for Cloud-to-Cloud DR services by using a single installation OVA package. Depending on your deployment requirements, you can select various deployment types. The following table can help you understand what the different deployment types include.

Table 1. vCloud Availability for Cloud-to-Cloud DR Deployment Types

Deployment Type

Description

Combined

All-in-one deployment type that is suitable for testing, evaluation, and small deployments. You deploy a single appliance in an environment configuration of 4 vCPUs, 6 GB RAM, and 10 GB storage, with all vCloud Availability for Cloud-to-Cloud DR services ready for configuration.

Manager node with vCloud Director support

Used for a deployment of a vCloud Availability Replication Manager service and a vCloud Availability vApp Replication Service/Manager service in a single appliance in an environment configuration of 4 vCPUs, 6 GB RAM, and 10 GB storage. The vCloud Availability Portal and the vCloud Configuration Portal are running on this node.

Replicator node

Used for a deployment of a dedicated vCloud Availability Replicator appliance in an environment configuration of 2 vCPUs, 4 GB RAM, and 10 GB storage.

Large Replicator node

Used for a deployment of a dedicated vCloud Availability Replicator appliance in an environment configuration of 4 vCPUs, 6 GB RAM, and 10 GB storage.

Tunnel node

Used for a deployment of a vCloud Availability Tunnel appliance in an environment configuration of 2 vCPUs, 4 GB RAM, and 10 GB storage.

Prerequisites

  • Obtain the installation OVA package that contains all the vCloud Availability for Cloud-to-Cloud DR appliances binaries.

  • If you deploy an OVF template for the first time, download and install the Client Integration Plug-in through the Deploy OVF Template in the vSphere Web Client.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the vSphere Web Client.
  2. Right-click the target location (data center, folder, cluster, resource pool, or host) where you want to deploy the vCloud Availability for Cloud-to-Cloud DR services and select Deploy OVF Template from the drop-down menu.

    The Deploy OVF Template wizard opens.

  3. In the Select source page, browse to the installation package location.

    The syntax of the OVA filename is vCloud-Availability-C2C-release_number-xxx-build_number_OVF10.ova.

  4. Click Next and review the details.
  5. Read and accept the license agreement, and click Next.
  6. In the Select name and folder page, enter a name for the appliance, the data center, or data center folder that contains the host or cluster on which you want to deploy the appliance.
  7. Click Next.
  8. In the Select configuration page, leave the default Combined deployment configuration and click Next.

    The Combined deployment creates a single virtual appliance that hosts all vCloud Availability for Cloud-to-Cloud DR services.

    Note:

    Use this option for test and development deployments. For production environments, deploy and configure a dedicated appliance for each vCloud Availability for Cloud-to-Cloud DR service.

  9. In the Select a resource page, select the target host, or cluster where the vCloud Availability for Cloud-to-Cloud DR services are about to run and click Next.
  10. Select the virtual disk format and the storage policy for the appliance from the drop-down menu.

    Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed and Datastore Default are selected by default.

  11. In the Setup network page, enter the settings for connecting the vCloud Availability for Cloud-to-Cloud DR appliance to the network.
    1. Select the source network that the vCloud Availability for Cloud-to-Cloud DR appliance uses.

      VM Network is used by default.

    2. Select the protocol version for the appliance IP address.

      IPv4 is selected by default.

    3. Select how to allocate the IP address of the appliance

      Static - Manual is used by default.

  12. Customize the deployment properties of the vCloud Availability for Cloud-to-Cloud DR appliance in the Customize template page and click Next.
    1. (Optional) Select the Enable SSH check box.
    2. In the NTP Server section, enter the NTP server address that the appliance uses.
      Important:

      Make sure that vCenter Server, ESXi, vCloud Director, the Platform Services Controller, and all vCloud Availability for Cloud-to-Cloud DR appliances use the same NTP server.

    3. In the root password section, enter and confirm the password of the root user for the appliance.

      vmware is used by default. If you leave the root password section empty, the default password it set for the root user.

      Note:

      After you install the combined appliance and you log in for the first time, you are prompted to change the root password. You must create a secured password with a minimum of eight characters and containing at least one of the following:

      • Lowercase: a b c

      • Uppercase: A B C

      • Numeric: 1 2 3

      • Special: & # %

  13. Review all the settings configured for the installer appliance, select Power on after deployment, and click Finish to begin the OVA installation process.

    The wizard closes.

Results

The Recent Tasks page shows the status for initializing the OVF deployment on the target host.