In the vSphere Client, you can deploy an on-premises vCloud Availability appliance by using a single OVA file.
Prerequisites
- Download the vCloud Availability 3.0 Appliance for Tenants (On-premise Sites) vCloud-Availability-OnPrem-release_number-xxx-build_number_OVF10.ova file, containing the binaries for the VMware vCloud Availability appliance.
- If your vSphere version is earlier than 6.5, install the Client Integration Plug-in to be able to use the Deploy OVF Template option in the vSphere Web Client.
Procedure
- Log in to your vCenter Server by using the vSphere Client.
- Navigate to a target object where you want to deploy the on-premises vCloud Availability appliance.
As a target object you can use a data center, a folder, a cluster, a resource pool, or a host.
- Right-click the target object and from the drop-down menu select Deploy OVF Template.
The
Deploy OVF Template wizard opens.
- On the Select an OVF template page, browse to the VMware-vCloud-Availability-OnPrem-release_number-xxx-build_number_OVF10.ova file location and click Next.
- On the Select a name and folder page, enter a name for the on-premises appliance, select a deployment location, and click Next.
- On the Select a compute resource page, select a host, or cluster as a compute resource to run the appliance on, and click Next.
- On the Review details page, verify the OVF template details and click Next.
- On the License agreements page, select the I accept all license agreements check box and click Next.
- On the Select storage page, select the virtual disk format and the storage policy for the appliance and click Next.
- On the Select networks page, optionally configure the network settings, then click Next.
- On the Customize template page, customize the deployment properties of the on-premises appliance and click Next.
- Enter and confirm the initial password for the appliance root user.
You must change the initial
root user password when you log in for the first time.
- (Required) Select the Enable SSH check box.
- In the NTP Server section, enter the NTP server address for the appliance to use.
Important: Ensure that
vCenter Server,
ESXi,
vCloud Director, Platform Services Controller, and the
vCloud Availability appliance all use the same NTP server.
- On the Ready to complete page, review the settings, optionally select Power on after deployment and to begin the OVA installation process, click Finish.
Results
The
Recent Tasks pane shows a new task for initializing the OVA deployment. After the task is complete, the new appliance is created on the selected resource.