Introduction
To pair your on-premise environment with Cloudist Disaster Recovery you must download, deploy and configure the VMware Cloud Director Availability On-premises Appliance.
Once deployed and paired, you can migrate, protect or failover virtual machines from your on-premise vSphere environment to the Cloudist VDC service.
Prerequisites
You must be onboarded in the Cloudist Solutions Portal and have:
Your customer/organisation number
Your username and password
You must have vSphere administrator privileges in your on-prem environment
You must deploy the VMware Cloud Director Availability On-premises Appliance
Drivers and Tools
Download the VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.1 On-premises Appliance
Pairing with Cloudist VDC Availability
Once you have deployed the VMware Cloud Director Availability On-premises Appliance, go to the https://<assigned ip>/admin url
You can verify this via the console of the appliance:
Log into the admin UI with the root user and password set when deploying the ovf template
Change the Password
Select Run initial setup wizard
Enter the Lookup Service Address of your on-premise environment
Enter the SSO Admin Username and Password
Click Next and Accept the certificate
Enter your Customer Number as the Site Name and click Next
Configure the Cloud Service Details
Service Endpoint address is the Cloudist VDC region you would like to pair with:
https://sec1-availability.cloudist.solutions:443 (Sweden Central)
https://sen1-availability.cloudist.solutions:443 (Sweden North)
Organization Admin is your Cloudist Portal username@customer/organization number
Organization Password is your Cloudist Portal password
Choose whether to Allow Access from Cloud
By selecting this option, you allow Cloudist Solutions and the organization administrators without authenticating to the on-premises site to perform operations from the Cloudist VDC Availability UI:
Discover on-premises workloads and replicate them to the cloud.
Reverse existing replications to the on-premises site.
Replicate cloud workloads to the on-premises site.
Click Next
Accept the certificate
Join/Ignore VMware's Customer Experience Improvement Program
Review the details of the Ready To Complete page and click Finish
You can also at this point choose configure local placement. This is required before performing replications but can be be configured later.