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Table Of Contents
- About this Guide
- Introducing Hybrid Cloud Manager™
- Understanding the Hybrid Cloud Manager Installation Process
- Choosing a Deployment Architecture
- Preparing Your Installation Environment
- Installing and Configuring Hybrid Cloud Manager
- Install the Hybrid Cloud Manager Appliance
- Register the Hybrid Cloud Manager with the vCenter
- Configuring the Hybrid Cloud Manager for vCenters with an External Lookup Service
- Register the Hybrid Cloud Manager with a vCloud Air Endpoint
- Installing and Configuring Hybrid Services
- Configuration Overview
- Start Appliance Installation and Configuration
- Configure the Hybrid Cloud Gateway
- Configure the Network Extension Service
- Stretching an L2 Network to vCloud Air
- Migrating a Virtual Machine to vCloud Air
- Administration
- Troubleshooting
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• Dedicated scale out L2 Concentrators can be deployed and used in conjunction with Direct Connect to increase
throughput
• Multiple Direct Connects and fail-back to Internet are supported
• Extended Networks are linked to vCloud Air Advanced Network Services Edge appliances in Org Gateway
position and can be announced back to the Enterprise once all virtual machines are migrated and the network is
unstretched
• Egress path optimization (optional) to allow shortcut routing between virtual machines on different stretched
networks in the Cloud
• Low-downtime Migration. The Hybrid Cloud Manager migration process creates a replica of a live VM, which is then
moved to the target vDC, then performs a switchover to power off the source VM and power on the replica. You can
migrate over the public internet, a dedicated line (such as Direct Connect connection), or a stretched network
created with Hybrid Cloud Manager.
• Migration uses vSphere Replication, which is a distributed technology implemented in the ESX hypervisor.
• A virtual machine can be migrated multiple times in either direction.
• Migration can be set to occur at a specified time.
• A migrated VM can keep its host name and/or VM name.
• Speed up migration or stretched network performance with optional software-defined WAN optimization.
• Migration over Stretched Layer 2:
• VMs migrated over stretched L2 can retain their IP and MAC. With consistent IP and MAC addresses,
applications can continue to work after migration.
• Can separate the data path from the migration path and still take advantage of dynamic routing.
Understanding the Hybrid Cloud Manager Installation Process
Hybrid Cloud Manager supports a many to many relationship between on-premises vCenter(s) and vCloud Air virtual
datacenters (vDCs). The vCenters in Linked Mode are also supported. Please reference recommended vCenter Linked
Mode topologies for the version of vSphere in use.
During the installation, the Hybrid Cloud Manager virtual appliance is imported and configured as an extension in the
on-premises vCenter. Then you can install and configure the Software-Defined WAN virtual appliances. During the
configuration phase, the automated installation workflow provisions each virtual appliance in your on-premises vCenter,
and creates a corresponding, symmetrically-deployed virtual appliance in your vCloud Air vDC.
After the installation, Hybrid Cloud Manager controls both local and remote installation components. In your vCloud Air
vDC the provisioned Software-Defined WAN components are managed as a service, and as such they are not editable, or
even visible, in your vCloud Air vDC.