VCDA - Deploy Combined Appliance & Pair To Zettagrid

Owned by Tahir Kulelija
Last updated: 26 Aug 2024 by Nicholas Power
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Broadcom has discontinued VMware Director Cloud Availability (VCDA). As a result, Zettagrid has ceased offering new VCDA subscriptions from 1-Jul-2024. Customers with existing VCDA subsubscriptions can continue to use the product until 1-May-2025. We recommend Zerto Secondsite as the replacement DR product.

Overview

The VMware vCloud Availability solution provides replication and failover capabilities for vCloud Director and vCenter Server workloads at both VM and vApp levels.

VMware vCloud Availability provides:

  • Replication management and monitoring of replications from an on-premises site to a cloud site and back.

  • Failback recovered in the cloud workloads to the on-premises site.

  • Migration of protected VMs in the cloud site back to the on-premises appliance.

  • Self-service protection and failover workflows per virtual machine (VM).

  • Single installation package as a Photon-based virtual appliance.

  • The capability of each deployment to serve as both source and recovery vCloud Director instance (site). There are no dedicated source and destination sites.

  • Symmetrical replication flow that can be started from either the source or the recovery vCloud Director site.

  • Replication and recovery of vApps and VMs between vCloud Director sites.

  • Using a single-site vCloud Availability installation, you can migrate vApps and VMs between Virtual Data Centers that belong to a single vCloud Director Organization.

  • Built-in Secure Tunneling requires no incoming open ports on the on-premises site.

  • Integration with existing vSphere environments.

  • Multi-tenant support.

  • Built-in encryption or encryption and compression of replication traffic.

  • Support for multiple vCenter Server and ESXi versions.

Firewall Requirements

Source 

 Destination

Port 

 Protocol

 Description

 vCloud Availability Replicator 

 ESXi Hosts

 902

 80

 TCP/UDP 

 TCP

 Used by the vCloud Availability Replicator service for replication

 traffic to the destination ESXi hosts. 

 vCloud Availability Replicator 

 VMware Platform Services Controller®

 443

 TCP

Used for single sign-on and Lookup Service communication when  

vSphere 5.5 or later is used in the respective site.

 vCloud Availability Replicator 

 vCenter Server

 443

 TCP

 Used by the local vCloud Availability vApp Replication Manager

 service or the vCloud Availability Replicator service for

 communication with the local vCenter Server. 

 vCenter Server

 vCloud Availability Replicator

 8043

 8048

 TCP

 TCP

 Enables vCloud Availability plug-in in vSphere Client to

 communicate with vCloud Availability Replicator.

 ESXi Hosts

 vCloud Availability Replicator

 31031 

 44045

 44046 

 TCP

 TCP

 TCP

 Used by the ESXi hosts for replication traffic to the

 destination vCloud Availability Replicator service.



vCAV On-Prem Management Components URLs

Component 

Management Endpoint 

 vCloud Availability vApp Replication Manager

 https://Appliance-IP-Address/ui/admin 

 vCloud Availability Replication Manager

 https://Appliance-IP-Address:8441/ui/admin 

 vCloud Availability Replicator

 https://Appliance-IP-Address:8440/ui/admin

 vCloud Availability Tunnel

 https://Appliance-IP-Address:8442/ui/admin

vCAV Zettagrid Public API endpoints

 Component 

Management Endpoint  URL or IP

 Sydney vCloud Availability Tunnel 

 syd-vcav01.zettagrid.com or 119.252.79.243

 Melbourne vCloud Availability Tunnel 

 mel-vcav01.zettagrid.com or 119.252.73.243

 Perth vCloud Availability Tunnel

 per-vcav01.zettagrid.com or 119.252.91.169

 Jakarta vCloud Availability Tunnel

 jkt-vcav01.zettagrid.id

Cibitung vCloud Availability Tunnel

cbt-vcav01.zettagrid.id

Deployment Guide

In the vSphere client, you can deploy all VMware vCloud Availability services by using a single OVA file.

Prerequisites

  • Install and power on the on-premises vCloud Availability appliance.

  • Verify that the cloud provider enabled the replication policy for your organization.

  • Obtain the vCloud Availability Public API endpoint address from the cloud provider.

Download the vCloud Availability 3.0.x Appliance for Cloud Providers (Cloud Sites) vCloud Availability-release_number-xxx-build_number_OVF10.ova file, containing the binaries for the VMware vCloud Availability appliance.

If your vSphere version is earlier than 6.5, install the Client Integration Plug-in to be able to use the Deploy OVF Template option in the vSphere Web Client.

Deploy vCAV Appliance

  1. Log in to your vCenter Server by using the vSphere Client.

  2. Navigate to a target object where you want to deploy the on-premises vCloud Availability appliance.

    As a target object you can use a data center, a folder, a cluster, a resource pool, or a host.

  3. Right-click the target object and from the drop-down menu select Deploy OVF Template.

    The Deploy OVF Template wizard opens.

  4. On the Select an OVF template page, browse to the VMware-vCloud-Availability-OnPrem-release_number-xxx-build_number_OVF10.ova file location and click Next.

  5. On the Select a name and folder page, enter a name for the on-premises appliance, select a deployment location, and click Next.