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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
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Verify that you have sufficient privileges to perform administrative operations in the vSphere Web
Client.
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Verify that you have valid licenses for all products in your environment.
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Verify that you have vCloud Air credentials for the Disaster Recovery to Cloud service.
Procedure
1 Download and Deploy the vSphere Replication Virtual Appliance on page 54
To start preparing your vCloud Sutite environment for DR2C, you must install and configure
vSphere Replication. vSphere Replication is distributed as an OVF virtual appliance.
2 Configure Network Connection to vCloud Air on page 55
You have deployed the vSphere Replication appliance in your on-premise environment. The next step
of preparing your environment for DR2C is to set up a connection to vCloud Air.
3 Replicate Virtual Machines to the Cloud on page 56
In the vSphere Web Client, you can select your mission-critical virtual machines for replication to
vCloud Air.
4 Recover a Virtual Machine in the Cloud on page 56
By using the Web interface of vCloud Air, you can recover the virtual machines that you replicated.
Recovering a virtual machine shuts down the virtual machine at your source site (if possible) and
recovers it in the cloud. During recovery, all replication activity is stopped.
Download and Deploy the vSphere Replication Virtual Appliance
To start preparing your vCloud Sutite environment for DR2C, you must install and configure
vSphere Replication. vSphere Replication is distributed as an OVF virtual appliance.
You can use vSphere Replication with the vCenter Server Appliance or with a vCenter Server installation on
Windows.
Prerequisites
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Verify that you have a valid vSphere Replication license.
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Verify that you have valid credentials for accessing the vCloud Air service.
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Verify that you have the vSphere Client Integration Plug-in installed.
Procedure
1 Visit the VMware corporate Web site or MyVMware to download the vSphere Replication virtual
appliance.
You should save the template file to the local machine on which you use the vSphere Web Client.
2 Log in to the vSphere Web Client.
3 Select vCenter > Hosts and Clusters.
4 Right-click the host on which you want to deploy the appliance, and select Deploy OVF template.
5 Select Local File and browse to the vSphere Replication template file on your local machine.
The default name of the file is vSphere_Replication_OVF10.ovf.
6 Complete the template deployment wizard.
7 Log out of the vSphere Web Client, close the browser, and then log back in.
vSphere Replication is present on the Home tab of the vSphere Web Client.
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