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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:

SSH to the vCenter
Remove packages
Remove endpoints from the lookup service
Restart vCenter UI services

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

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:

Deploy vCAv On-Premises Appliance
Start configuration wizard
Connect to vCAv Cloud Tunnel
Configuration of local placement
Validation and vSphere UI

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

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:

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

Utilizing Central Point of Management (CPoM) in VMware vCloud Director 9.7

One of the extremely exciting additions to VMware vCloud Director (vCD) is the ability to present vCenter instances securely to tenant organizations utilizing the vCD user interface – this is referred to as Central Point of Management, or what we abbreviate to as CPoM. Tom Fojta did a great job highlighting what’s new inside of vCD 9.7 here.

In this post, I am going to review the steps required to successfully deploy your first vCenter-SDDC to an organization inside of vCloud Director 9.7. You will need to utilize the CloudAPI, but do not be alarmed, I will walk you through these steps.