5.8
Table Of Contents
- vCloud Suite Architecture Overview and Use Cases
- Contents
- About this book
- Introduction to vCloud Suite
- Architecture Overview
- Conceptual Design of a vCloud Suite Environment
- vCloud Suite Components in the Management Cluster
- Software-Defined Data Center Core Infrastructure
- Delivering an Infrastructure Service
- Delivering Platform as a Service
- Deploying vCloud Suite
- Install vCloud Suite Components
- Update vCloud Suite Components
- External Dependencies for Deploying vCloud Suite
- System Requirements of vCloud Suite Components
- Security Considerations
- Licensing
- vCloud Suite Licensing Model
- Activating vCloud Suite Components in the vSphere Web Client
- Activating vCloud Suite Components in the vSphere Client
- Add the vCloud Suite License by Using the vSphere Client
- Assign the vCloud Suite License to vSphere in the vSphere Client
- Assign the vCloud Suite License to vCenter Operations Management Suite in the vSphere Client
- Assign the vCloud Suite License to vCloud Networking and Security in the vSphere Client
- Assign the vCloud Suite License Key to vCenter Site Recovery Manager
- Activating vCloud Suite Components by Using Their Own Licensing Interfaces
- Monitoring License Usage for vCloud Suite
- vCloud Suite Use Cases
- Index
Figure 4‑1. Disaster recovery to cloud workflow
Start
Purchase a vCloud Air –
DR to Cloud subscription.
Download and deploy the vSphere
Replication 5.8 appliance
Configure your connection to
vCloud Air
Clean up test recovery
Test recovery
Select type of
recovery
Replicate virtual machines
Recovery to vCloud Air
End
Test Failover
To verify your setup, you can perform test recoveries before an actual recovery is required. Test recoveries
are not enabled by default. You need to file a service request to make the test functionality available.
By using vCloud Connector, you can copy virtual machines from vCloud Air to your on-premise data
center.
Prerequisites
n
Verify that your virtual machines are running in a vSphere environment.
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