Tag: VCDA-vCAv

Five Quick Tips on VMware vCloud Availability 3.0

I wanted to summarize a few things I’ve found when working with VMware vCloud Availability 3.0 (vCAv) over the past few months that will be helpful to providers and tenants. I’m sure there’s others, but these are the ones that come to mind.

Tunnel (Public API) Endpoint

This is a very important step for production deployments – setting the URL endpoint to ensure proper cloud access from tenants and other vCD instances.

The public API endpoint can be configured from the Cloud Replication Management (CRM) under Configuration:

Or can be configured directly on the tunnel:

When one configures it from the CRM, it does push this change to the tunnel appliance over port 8047 (internal communication port between CRM and the tunnel appliance).

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Removing VMware vCloud Availability 3.0 Plugin from vCenter

Recently, I had this come up where I had to remove the vCloud Availability 3.0 (vCAv) plugin from my lab vCenter. Today, there is not a way to do this through the vCAv on-premises appliance UI – it must be done directly on the vCenter. Therefore, after speaking with a colleague (Bill Leck), I received the steps on removing it from the vCenter instance.

The following steps will work with vSphere 6.5x and 6.7U1. With 6.7U2, you can skip step 2 – thanks Vladimir Velikov.

Here are the high-level steps:

  1. SSH to the vCenter
  2. Remove packages
  3. Remove endpoints from the lookup service
  4. Restart vCenter UI services

This is a very easy and straight forward process. I’ve documented the step by step directions below.

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Overview of VMware vCloud Availability 3.0 – Tenant Deployment, Protection Workflow, Resources

Once the provider site is operational, we are ready to bring the on-premises / Tenant site online for VMware vCloud Availability 3.0 (vCAv). Again, recap of the deployment steps:

  1. Deploy vCAv On-Premises Appliance
  2. Start configuration wizard
  3. Connect to vCAv Cloud Tunnel
  4. Configuration of local placement
  5. Validation and vSphere UI

Before we get started, let’s take a look at a port mapping diagram.

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Overview of VMware vCloud Availability 3.0 – Provider Deployment

In this post, we will be reviewing the steps on setting up and operationalizing vCloud Availability 3.0 (vCAv) for a provider site.

There is a presumption that you will be deploying for production, so that is what I’ll be reviewing. The consolidated (combined) appliance would be an easier deployment, but still requires the below configurations post-deployment.

Recap of the Provider steps:

  1. Deployment of Cloud Replication Management (CRM) Instance
    1. Initial Replication Management Setup
    2. Initial Setup Wizard
  2. Deploy vCAv Replicator(s)
  3. Deploy vCAv Tunnel
  4. Configuration of CRM instance and start of site wizard
  5. Configuration of Replicator
    1. Pairing Replicator with Replication Manager
  6. Configuration of Tunnel
  7. Validation
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