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vCloud Director Availability On-premises installation

In my previous post Provider setup we have seen vCDA provider installation. Here, we will see vCDA 4.0.1 On-premises installation.

Download the On-premise OVA from  VMware Download and deploy it in your vCenter. 

Note: Ensure that vCenter Server, ESXi, Platform Services Controller, VMware Cloud Director, and the VMware Cloud Director Availability appliance all use the same NTP server. 

Before I deploy vCDA On-premises in my environment I had taken a screen shot of available vCenter client plugin for reference

 

 

  • Once the OVA is deployed in vCenter, access the replicator web page using https://applianceIP. Change the password for appliance as you are logging for the first time.

 

  

  • Run the initial setup wizard

 

 Enter the vCenter details for lookup service configuration 

 

Enable "provide cloud pairing details later" and finish the setup

 

You would be able to see vCDA plugin in vCenter web client now 

 

  • Configure site pairing

Choose the DRaaS option under Menu in vSphere webclient  

  

Click on Pair Now

 

Provide on-premises site name and enter the lookup service info

 

 

Provide the remote site details and finish the wizard by enabling Edit/Configure local placement now

  

 


  • You will eventually find the newly paired On-premises site in vCloud Director tenant portal. That's it, you can start enabling DRaaS and migrate the workload.


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