In a dedicated appliance deployment, administrative sessions from public IPs are restricted to all vCloud Availability services and you cannot pair vCloud Availability to a cloud site. To pair cloud sites, you must allow administrative sessions from public IP addresses.

Prerequisites

Verify that you are running vCloud Availability 3.0.1 or later.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the vCloud Availability vApp Replication Manager service management interface.
    1. Open a Web browser and go to https://Appliance-IP-Address/ui/admin.
    2. Select Appliance login or SSO login and enter the root or the single sign-on user credentials.
    3. Click Login.
  2. In the left pane, click Configuration.
  3. Under Security settings, next to Restrict Admin APIs by source IP, click Edit.
  4. In the Restrict Admin APIs by source IP window, select Allow admin access from anywhere and click Apply.
    Under Security settings, next to Restrict Admin APIs by source IP, you see Allow admin access from anywhere listed.

Results

The external administrative sessions to all vCloud Availability services through the vCloud Availability Public API endpoint are enabled. As a result, vCloud Availability allows cloud sites to pair.

What to do next

  1. You can now pair or re-pair cloud sites. For more information, see Pair Cloud Sites and Re-Pair Cloud Sites.
  2. Revert the restriction after completing the pairing operation. For more information, see Restrict Public Administrative Access to vCloud Availability.