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To add more servers to this group, see “Install vCloud Director Software on Additional Members of a Server
Group,” on page 29.
After vCloud Director services are running on all servers, you can open the Setup wizard at the URL
displayed when the script completes. See Chapter 4, “vCloud Director Setup,” on page 43.
Protecting and Reusing the Response File
Network and database connection details that you supply when you configure the first vCloud Director
server are saved in a response file. This file contains sensitive information that you must reuse when you
add more servers to a server group. Preserve the file in a secure location, and make it available only when
needed.
The response file is created at /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/etc/responses.properties on the first server
for which you configure network and database connections. When you add more servers to the group, you
must use a copy of the response file to supply configuration parameters that all servers share.
Procedure
1 Protect the response file.
Save a copy of the file in a secure location. Restrict access to it, and make sure it is backed up to a secure
location. When you back up the file, avoid sending cleartext across a public network.
2 Reuse the response file.
a Copy the file to a location accessible to the server you are ready to configure.
NOTE You must install vCloud Director software on a server before you can reuse the response file
to configure it. All directories in the pathname to the response file must be readable by the user
vcloud.vcloud, as shown in this example.
[root@cell1 /tmp]# ls -l responses.properties
-rw------- 1 vcloud vcloud 418 Jun 8 13:42 responses.properties
The installer creates this user and group.
b
Run the configuration script, using the -r option and specifying the response file pathname.
Log in as root, open a console, shell, or terminal window, and type:
[root@cell1 /tmp]# /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/bin/configure -r /path-to-response-file
What to do next
After you configure the additional servers, delete the copy of the response file you used to configure them.
Install vCloud Director Software on Additional Members of a Server
Group
You can add servers to a vCloud Director server group at any time. Because all servers in a server group
must be configured with the same database connection details, you must use the response file created when
you configured the first member of the group to supply this information when you configure additional
members.
Prerequisites
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Verify that you can access the response file that was created when you installed and configured the first
member of this server group. See “Protecting and Reusing the Response File,” on page 29.
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Verify that the vCloud Director database is accessible from this server.
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