Adding Azure cloud data center
To access the Azure cloud resources, you need to configure the cloud credentials. These credentials are used to connect to Azure cloud using Azure APIs. You can configure cloud credentials as part of the initial getting started experience or add the cloud configuration later to the Infrastructure Management Server (IMS) on the cloud.
Cloud APIs for the data center in Azure perform the following operations:
Discover virtual machines using near real-time discovery (NRT) , volumes, storage accounts, resource groups, virtual networks, subnets, disks, network security groups, standards or virtual machine size.
Invoke operations on the cloud resources such as provision virtual machines, attach or detach disks.
To add Azure cloud data center
- Navigate
Settings (menu bar) > Infrastructure > Details View
- Select Datacenter +.
- Enter the geographical location and the name of the data center.
- Select Is Cloud Datacenter and then select Azure cloud type.
- In the Azure Customization panel, enter the following information:
Enter the configuration name.
Provide a user-friendly name to the configuration.
Select the endpoint.
Enter the Subscription ID.
Enter the Tenant ID / Directory ID.
Enter the Application ID / Client ID.
Enter the Client Secret Key. Make sure you to use only Client Secret based credentials for applications.
For information on creating an Application ID and Client Secret key, refer to Microsoft documentation. The application is required to communicate with Azure programmatically. Client Secret Key is sometimes also referred as Authentication key or Password.
- If you want to use an existing configuration, select the check box which then auto populates all the information.
- Click Verify to verify the configuration.
- Select a location.
- Select a storage account and enter the container name.
Storage accounts of the type sku Premium are not supported.
- Click Submit to complete the configuration.
Note:
1. From the console, you can add multiple IMSs to a single cloud data center, but this configuration is not yet supported in Veritas Resiliency Platform.
Note:
2. Authentication of Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) based configuration is not supported in Azure cloud configuration.
See Managing cloud configurations.