Adding VMware virtualization servers
You can add VMware vCenter servers to Veritas Resiliency Platform for discovery by an Infrastructure Management Server (IMS). The VMware discovery provides the following information:
Information on the vCenter Server
Information on the ESX servers that the vCenter Server manages
When adding a vCenter Server, you have the option to automatically discover all ESX servers registered to the vCenter Server or select which of the available ESX servers to discover.
Information on the virtual machines that are configured on the ESX servers
Note:
If there is more than one IMS in a data center, you can add the same vCenter Server to more than one IMS. For example, you may want to split up the ESX server discovery between multiple IMSs. To accomplish this, you first add the vCenter Server to one IMS for one set of ESX servers. Then once discovery is complete, you use the Edit option to add another IMS and select a different set of ESX servers. This is applicable only if the recovery is to an on-premises data center.
You can add a VMware vCenter server based in cloud in either a normal Data Center or a Data Center of type Cloud, created with the appropriate cloud credentials.
To add VMware virtualization servers
- Prerequisites:
- Navigate
Settings (menu bar) > Infrastructure > Details View
You can also access Manage Asset Infrastructure from the Quick Actions menu.
- Expand the data center > Virtualization and Private Cloud > VMware tab.
- Launch the + vCenter wizard.
- In the wizard, specify the following information and click Next.
Specify the fully-qualified hostname of the vCenter Server that you want to discover along with its port number. The default port is 443.
Support for IPv6 address is enabled. You can configure vCenter server using IPv6 address or hostname registered with DNS server.
When entering login credentials, an administrative vCenter Server user account is required.
If the data center has more than one IMS, a list of IMS names is shown. Select the IMS that you want to use to discover and monitor the vCenter Server and ESX servers.
- Choose to automatically discover all ESX servers or select ESX servers to discover. If multiple clusters are available, you can use Group By to sort the list of ESX servers by cluster. Click Next. It is recommended to select all ESX servers within a cluster.
If you choose the auto discover option, all currently available ESX servers are discovered. In addition, ESX servers later added to the vCenter Server are automatically discovered. However if some of the ESX servers associated with the vCenter Server are disconnected, then the auto discovery option is disabled.
If you are adding a vCenter server based in cloud, you have to select the auto discovery option as the ESX cluster membership changes are frequent and automatically initiated by the cloud provider.
- Review the configured vCenter Server, ESX servers, and IMS on the verification screen and submit the configuration.
The wizard notifies you of any issues.
The vCenter Server that has been added is listed on the VMware tab. Discovery of the ESX servers occurs in the background. You can view the progress on the Activities page.
For a vCenter server configured, if any of following changes are made in vCenter server after adding it to Resiliency Platform then,
Any ESX server that is configured in Resiliency Platform is removed and re-added into vCenter server.
Any existing ESX/Datastore cluster is destroyed and recreated.
After such a change in vCenter server, user should edit vCenter configuration in Resiliency Platform without any changes to the ESXs that were configured earlier. This allows the VMware NRT daemon in Resiliency Platform to start monitoring the objects that were re-added/re-created in vCenter server.
If changes are made on the virtualization servers after the IMS discovery is complete, you need to refresh the discovery of the vCenter Server.