VMware vCloud Air Hybrid Cloud Manager 1.0 User guide

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Model: vCloud Air Hybrid Cloud Manager 1.0

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vCloud

Air Hybrid Cloud Manager™

Version 1.0 Update 1

Installation and Administration Guide

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vCloud

Air Hybrid Cloud Manager™ Version 1.0 Update 1

Installation and Administration Guide

November 25, 2015

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Table of Contents

About this Guide ................................................................................................................................................................. 5

Introducing Hybrid Cloud Manager™ .................................................................................................................................. 5

Understanding the Hybrid Cloud Manager Installation Process ......................................................................................... 6

Installation Overview .................................................................................................................................................... 7

Hybrid Cloud Manager Virtual Appliances .................................................................................................................... 7

Choosing a Deployment Architecture ................................................................................................................................. 9

Migration Only ............................................................................................................................................................ 10

Layer 2 Extension ........................................................................................................................................................ 10

Other Architecture Considerations ............................................................................................................................. 11

Preparing Your Installation Environment .......................................................................................................................... 11

Configure Network Connectivity ................................................................................................................................. 11

Verify the Minimum Installation Environment ........................................................................................................... 13

Verify Layer 2 Installation Requirements .................................................................................................................... 13

Verify the vCloud Air Edge Gateway Upgrade ............................................................................................................ 14

Install the vSphere Web Client Integration Plug-in ..................................................................................................... 14

Installing and Configuring Hybrid Cloud Manager ............................................................................................................ 14

Install the Hybrid Cloud Manager Appliance .............................................................................................................. 14

Register the Hybrid Cloud Manager with the vCenter ................................................................................................ 17

Configuring the Hybrid Cloud Manager for vCenters with an External Lookup Service ............................................. 19

Register the Hybrid Cloud Manager with a vCloud Air Endpoint ................................................................................ 20

Installing and Configuring Hybrid Services .................................................................................................................. 22

Configuration Overview .............................................................................................................................................. 22

Start Appliance Installation and Configuration ........................................................................................................... 22

Configure the Hybrid Cloud Gateway ......................................................................................................................... 23

Configure the Network Extension Service................................................................................................................... 24

Stretching an L2 Network to vCloud Air ............................................................................................................................ 27

Migrating a Virtual Machine to vCloud Air ....................................................................................................................... 30

Understanding Replication-Based Migration .............................................................................................................. 30

Checking Your VM before Migration ........................................................................................................................... 31

Migrating a Sample VM from an On-premises vCenter to the Cloud ......................................................................... 31

Administration .................................................................................................................................................................. 36

Upgrading Hybrid Cloud Manager .............................................................................................................................. 36

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Uninstalling Hybrid Cloud Manager ............................................................................................................................ 36

Unstretching an L2 Network ....................................................................................................................................... 37

Removing Hybrid Service Appliances .......................................................................................................................... 37

Troubleshooting ................................................................................................................................................................ 37

Resetting the MAC Address......................................................................................................................................... 38

High Host Resource Consumption .............................................................................................................................. 38

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About this Guide

This guide describes how to install Hybrid Cloud Manager Version 1.0 Update 1. It also guides you through vSphere Web

Client workflows to deploy and configure Software-Defined WAN components (including WAN Optimization), to migrate

workloads to the cloud and back, and extend on-premises VLAN and VXLAN networks from your datacenter to vCloud

Air.

Intended Audience

This document is intended for datacenter administrators familiar with vSphere virtualization.

Related Documentation

In addition to this document, see the following documentation:

• VMware vCloud Air Hybrid Cloud Manager Release Notes

• VMware vSphere Documentation 5.5u1 | 6.0

• vCloud Air Advanced Networking Guide, including Direct Connect for vCloud Air

• vCloud Air Advanced Networking Services Guide

VMware Technical Publications Glossary

VMware Technical Publications provides a glossary

of terms that might be unfamiliar to you. For definitions of terms as

we use them in VMware technical documentation, see our glossary.

Introducing Hybrid Cloud Manager™

vCloud® Air Hybrid Cloud Manager™ enables bidirectional VM mobility and migration to the cloud and back, and hybrid

networking to extend on-premises vSphere vCenter networks into vCloud Air.

Data transport features: network extension, WAN optimization, Multi-tenant WAN with Intelligent Routing, and path

fail-over.

Security features: Suite B-compliant AES-GCM with IKEv2, data deduplication and compression, AES-NI Offload, Flow-

based Admission Control. Hybrid Cloud Manager owns the source and destination encryption and decryption, ensuring a

consistent security policy and providing admission for hybrid workflows like virtual machine migration and network

extension.

Hybrid Cloud Manager features can be deployed in several ways:

• Hybrid Networking (Layer 2 Extension). Securely extend your vSphere vCenter to integrate with a vCloud Air Virtual

Data Center (vDC). Configure networking connections to support high-speed connections.

• Can stretch multiple L2 segments

• Can route stretched networks via Cloud Gateway for encryption and through the WAN optimization appliance to

provide a secure and optimized path through the Internet to vCloud Air

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• Dedicated scale out L2 Concentrators can be deployed and used in conjunction with Direct Connect to increase

throughput

• Multiple Direct Connects and fail-back to Internet are supported

• Extended Networks are linked to vCloud Air Advanced Network Services Edge appliances in Org Gateway

position and can be announced back to the Enterprise once all virtual machines are migrated and the network is

unstretched

• Egress path optimization (optional) to allow shortcut routing between virtual machines on different stretched

networks in the Cloud

• Low-downtime Migration. The Hybrid Cloud Manager migration process creates a replica of a live VM, which is then

moved to the target vDC, then performs a switchover to power off the source VM and power on the replica. You can

migrate over the public internet, a dedicated line (such as Direct Connect connection), or a stretched network

created with Hybrid Cloud Manager.

• Migration uses vSphere Replication, which is a distributed technology implemented in the ESX hypervisor.

• A virtual machine can be migrated multiple times in either direction.

• Migration can be set to occur at a specified time.

• A migrated VM can keep its host name and/or VM name.

• Speed up migration or stretched network performance with optional software-defined WAN optimization.

• Migration over Stretched Layer 2:

• VMs migrated over stretched L2 can retain their IP and MAC. With consistent IP and MAC addresses,

applications can continue to work after migration.

• Can separate the data path from the migration path and still take advantage of dynamic routing.

Understanding the Hybrid Cloud Manager Installation Process

Hybrid Cloud Manager supports a many to many relationship between on-premises vCenter(s) and vCloud Air virtual

datacenters (vDCs). The vCenters in Linked Mode are also supported. Please reference recommended vCenter Linked

Mode topologies for the version of vSphere in use.

During the installation, the Hybrid Cloud Manager virtual appliance is imported and configured as an extension in the

on-premises vCenter. Then you can install and configure the Software-Defined WAN virtual appliances. During the

configuration phase, the automated installation workflow provisions each virtual appliance in your on-premises vCenter,

and creates a corresponding, symmetrically-deployed virtual appliance in your vCloud Air vDC.

After the installation, Hybrid Cloud Manager controls both local and remote installation components. In your vCloud Air

vDC the provisioned Software-Defined WAN components are managed as a service, and as such they are not editable, or

even visible, in your vCloud Air vDC.

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Figure 1: Installation Components

Installation Overview

This is a brief summary of the Hybrid Cloud Manager installation tasks.

1. Identify the architecture you want to use (see “Use Cases”).

2. Log into My VMware and download

the Hybrid Cloud Manager OVA file from the product download page:

https://my.vmware.com/en/group/vmware/details?downloadGroup=HCM100&productId=343

3. From vSphere, install the Hybrid Cloud Manager virtual appliance in the on-premises vCenter that will connect to

vCloud Air.

The management interface and the virtual appliances must be in the same vCenter. If you plan to use L2 network

extension, a VMware virtual distributed switch (vDS) must also be available in the same vCenter. See “Preparing

Your Installation Environment” for more configuration details.

4. Register a vCloud Air Endpoint with the vSphere web client.

This step establishes the one-to-one relationship between the on-premises vSphere vCenter and a vCloud Air cloud

instance.

5. Install and configure the hybrid service appliances. For each appliance installed on premises, the installer provisions

a VM in the target vCloud Air vDC. The service appliance configuration determines the feature deployment

architecture (see “Installing and Configuring Hybrid Services”).

Hybrid Cloud Manager Virtual Appliances

The installation package includes the Hybrid Cloud Manager and three hybrid service appliances, each of which is

deployed as a VM. The VMs are automatically provisioned and sized, as shown in Table 1.

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Table 1: Virtual Machine Installation Resource Requirements

VM vCPUs RAM Installation

Hybrid Cloud Manager 4 12 GB Required.

Hybrid Cloud Gateway 2 2 GB Required.

Layer 2 Concentrator (L2C)

6 8GB Optional for migration, required for stretched Layer 2, or migration over stretched Layer 2.

WAN Optimizer 8 14 GB Optional.

During the installation process you can choose the Cluster/Host that will host the VMs for the Hybrid Cloud Manager,

the Hybrid Cloud Gateway, and the Layer 2 Concentrator (L2C). The WAN Optimizer is automatically deployed to a host

that best meets its requirements (as determined by vSphere at the time of the installation).

Hybrid Cloud Manager

The Hybrid Cloud Manager virtual appliance is Installed on-premises only and contains all other virtual appliance on-

board, simplifying the download and the installation process.

Hybrid Cloud Gateway

The Cloud Gateway maintains a secure channel between vSphere and a vCloud Air. The channel secures access for

vSphere protocols that are not tenant-aware, and provides intelligent routing capabilities to avoid networking "middle

mile" security problems. Since the Cloud Gateway uses strong encryption, no corporate VPN changes are required for

Hybrid Cloud Manager functionality.

The Cloud Gateway also incorporates vSphere replication technology to perform bidirectional migration. For more about

vSphere Replication usage and virtual machine migration, please see “Understanding Replication-Based Migration,” on

page 30.

Layer 2 Concentrator

The Network Extension Service extends a network from a vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS) to a vCloud Air.

The Layer 2 Concentrator (L2C) service appliance functions as a translation bridge to extend VLANs to VXLAN in vCloud

Air or as a transparent bridge when VXLAN and NSX-vSphere Edition is used on-premises. It has two interfaces:

• Internal Trunk interface: handles virtual machine traffic on-premises for the extended networks.

• Uplink interface: encapsulated overlay traffic is sent via this interface to and from vCloud Air.

When the virtual appliance is configured, you can masquerade the L2C behind the Cloud Gateway and share its IP

address. This allows ease of install in that the Cloud Gateway, L2C, and WAN Optimization appliance only require one IP

address. This is possible when selecting the deployment option where Extended Network traffic is routed via Hybrid

Transport (via Cloud Gateway). It is also possible to use a unique IP address for the L2C, thereby separating the

migration path and the stretched network data path. The latter approach is used in conjunction with scale out

deployment for multiple L2Cs and when using Direct Connect private lines where strong encryption may not be required

for extended networks.

WAN Optimization

The WAN Optimization appliance is an optional, yet highly recommended, component that performs WAN conditioning

to reduce effects of latency, Forward Error Correction to negate packet loss scenarios, deduplication of redundant traffic

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patterns to reduce bandwidth usage and insures best usage of available network capacity to expedite data transfer to

and from vCloud Air.

• Virtual machine migration relies on the combination of Cloud Gateway and WAN Optimization appliance to achieve

unparalleled mobility between vSphere on-premises and vCloud Air

• L2 extension benefits from WAN optimization when the data path is routed through the Cloud Gateway (Hybrid

Transport option in the workflow)

Choosing a Deployment Architecture

The most common use case is to install the Hybrid Cloud Manager and all three types of Software-Defined WAN

appliances, as shown in Figure 1 on page 7. Table 2 summarizes the possible use cases, and what the minimal installation

entails.

A single path architecture uses the Cloud Gateway for all communication.

Table 2: Minimum Requirements for Supported Use Cases

# Use Case

Hybrid Networking

Cloud

Gateway

WAN

Opt

L2C

Other Requirements

Standard

Premium

Single Path

❶

Migration only

● ● ●

❷

Migration only, 100+ Mbps

● ● ●

Might need Direct Connect to approach 1 Gbps

❸

Stretched L2, 0-9 networks

● ○ ● ● ●

vDS with VLAN/VxLAN.

❹

Stretched L2, 10-20 networks, 1oo+

Mbps

● ● ● ●

vDS with VLAN/VxLAN. Advanced Networking

Services required to support 10+ networks. Might

need Direct Connect to approach 1 Gbps

Separate Migration Path and Data Path

❺

Stretched L2, 0-9 networks, alternate

data path

● ● ● ●

vDS with VLAN/VxLAN. Might need Direct

Connect to approach 100+ Mbps

❻

Stretched L2, 10-20 networks, 1oo+

Mbps

, alternate data path

● ● ●

vDS with VLAN/VxLAN. Advanced Networking

Services required to support 10+ networks. Might

need Direct Connect to approach 1 Gbps

❼

Stretched L2, 20+ networks, 1oo+

Mbps

, multiple data paths

● ● ● ●

Scale out solution. Same as ❺ or ❻ but with

multiple L2 Concentrators. All L2C appliances still

use a single Hybrid Cloud Gateway.

Required: ● Preferred : ● Optional: ○

Hybrid Networking Standard: 1 Connection, up to 100 Mbps

Hybrid Networking’ Premium: 1-3 Connections, up to 1 Gbps

. The primary advantage of the Premium option is speed. Because there is a 1:1

relationship between a vCenter and a vCloud Air vDC, the number of connections only matters if you are using Linked Mode on premises.

WAN enhances security and speed for workloads passing through the Cloud Gateway.

Networking bandwidth is limited by your purchased hybrid networking option or your native bandwidth, whichever is smaller.

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Migration Only

In Table 2, cases ❶ and ❷ are for migrating without an L2 extension. Other than the Hybrid Cloud Manager, only the

Hybrid Cloud Gateway appliance is required. The basic difference between cases

❶ and ❷ is that higher speed is

possible with the Hybrid Networking Premium option.

WAN optimization, if installed, can improve security and speed in the situations described in “WAN Optimizer” on page

8. If you have a secure high-speed line (for example, Direct Connect), configuring the Hybrid Cloud Gateway to use that

line is another way to improve speed.

One advantage of migrating virtual machines on extended networks into vCloud Air is that the downtime is reduced to a

few minutes and no configuration changes happen on the virtual machine. The virtual machine can retain the MAC

addresses, computer names and VM names – greatly simplifying the migration to vCloud Air and enabling easy round

trips back on-premise, when needed. The Network Extension feature requires a vSphere Distributed Switch, which

requires vSphere Enterprise Plus Edition.

It is possible to migrate virtual machines without network extension. In this case the virtual machine obtains a new IP

address via the Guest Customization service once it is migrated.

IP Addresses for Installation: 2 on-premises, 1 for vCloud Air vDC

Layer 2 Extension

Before you configure L2 network extension, you must be certain that you have the prerequisites, as explained in, “Verify

Layer 2 Installation Requirements.”

Use cases 3-7 rely upon Layer 2 Extension. You can view Layer 2 Extensions as a way to extend or stretch your on-

premises network to vCloud Air, enabling seamless VM migration between the data center and the cloud. For example,

suppose you have an application and a database on separate hosts in your vCenter, and you migrate the application into

the Cloud.

• If you are using Hybrid Transport in the deployment wizard (single path approach), the migration and extended

network traffic is routed through the Cloud Gateway. WAN optimization (if installed) and intelligent routing will be

applied to migration workloads and the extended network data path.

• If the migration path and the data path are separate (cases 5, 6, and 7), the Cloud Gateway still maintains the secure

channel and handles migration workloads, which get the benefits of WAN optimization (if installed). The extended

network data traffic between virtual machines travels on the routes configured for the Layer 2 Concentrator(s).

The remainder of this section summarizes how L2C configuration affects the Layer 2 Extension use cases.

Single Path

This is the default service appliance deployment, where the L2C and WAN optimization appliances use the same IP

address as the Cloud Gateway.

IP Addresses for Installation: 2 on-premises (HCM, Hybrid Cloud Gateway), 1 for vCloud Air vDC

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Separate Migration and Data Paths

The Cloud Gateway and the L2C service appliances use different outbound IP addresses. In this configuration, the L2C

appliance data path does not benefit from WAN Optimization or intelligent routing, but workloads travelling through the

Cloud Gateway do. This might not be an issue if the host-to-host traffic on the data path is already encrypted or

compressed.

IP Addresses for Installation: 3 on-premises (HCM, Hybrid Cloud Gateway, L2C), 2 for vCloud Air vDC

Scale Out: Multiple Layer 2 Concentrators for the Data Path

Using multiple L2C appliances is most beneficial if you have secure, high-speed lines, such as a Direct Connect lines, and

you want your architecture to support application performance scale out.

For example, if you have multiple vLANs you might choose to configure an L2C for each vLAN. In this architecture the

L2Cs maintain the data path(s) for host-to-host communication but continues use the Hybrid Cloud Gateway for internal

communication, management tasks, and migration workloads.

IP Addresses for Installation: On premises, 1 each for HCM and HYBRID CLOUD GATEWAY, and 1 for each L2C. In vCloud Air, 1 for the Hybrid Cloud

Gateway, and 1 for each L2C.

Other Architecture Considerations

Egress Path Optimization

Egress Optimization is a feature that applies only to the remote vCloud Air vDC network.

You enable this feature when you configure the Hybrid Cloud Gateway, as shown in Step 5 on page 28.

Intelligent Routing.

This feature applies to any traffic routed over the public internet.

Preparing Your Installation Environment

Before installing Hybrid Cloud Manager, verify that your environment can support the tasks you want to accomplish.

Configure Network Connectivity

The Hybrid Cloud Manager, when installed, must be able to reach the public internet and/or your private line(s), and any

necessary data center elements such as networks, switches, port groups, and VMs you might migrate.

Table 3 lists ports that must be opened so that Hybrid Cloud Manager virtual appliances can install successfully.

Also, both your vSphere environment and your vCloud Air environment must allow for Network Time Protocol (NTP)

clock synchronization among vSphere on-premises devices and the vCloud Air Dedicated Cloud devices. UDP port 123

must be accessible to Hybrid Cloud Manager virtual appliances and networks. If you have installed NTP Servers you can

specify them when you install the Hybrid Cloud Manager appliance (step 11.f on page 15).

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Table 3: Port Access Requirements

Source Target Port Protocol

Purpose Services

HCM Customer DNS 53 TCP/UDP Name resolution. DNS

Hybrid Cloud Manager

vCenter Server 443 TCP Hybrid Cloud Manager REST service. HTTPS

Web Browser Hybrid Cloud Manager 9443 TCP

Hybrid Cloud Manager Virtual Appliance Management

Interface for Hybrid Cloud Manager system configuration.

HTTPS

Admin Network Hybrid Cloud Manager 22 SSH

Administrator SSH access to Hybrid Cloud Manager. Only

necessary if you configured SSH in Step 11 on page 15.

HTTPS

Hybrid Cloud Manager ESXi Hosts 902 TCP

Send management and provisioning instructions from Hybrid

Cloud Manager to ESXi Hosts in vCloud Air.

internal

Hybrid Cloud Manager Cloud Gateway 8123 TCP

Send host-based replication service instructions to the Hybrid

Cloud Gateway.

HTTP

Hybrid Cloud Manager Cloud Gateway 9443 TCP

Send management instructions to the local Hybrid Cloud

Gateway using the REST API.

HTTPS

Cloud Gateway L2C 443 TCP

Send management instructions from Cloud Gateway to L2C

when L2C uses the same path as the Hybrid Cloud Gateway.

HTTP

Cloud Gateway L2C 8443 TCP

Bidirectional management instructions from Cloud Gateway

to L2C, when L2C uses an alternate data path.

HTTP

L2C L2C (remote) 443 TCP

Bidirectional connection between local and remote L2C

appliances when using an alternate data path.

HTTP

Cloud Gateway ESXi Hosts 902 TCP Managing and OVF deployment. internal

ESXi Hosts Cloud Gateway

31031

44046

TCP Internal host-based replication traffic. internal

Cloud Gateway (local)

Cloud Gateway

(remote)

50 IP

IP protocol to encapsulate hybridnetwork traffic for the

bidirectional tunnel.

IPSEC

Cloud Gateway (local)

Cloud Gateway

(remote)

4500 UDP

Internet key exchange (IKEv2) to encapsulate workload for the

bidirectional tunnel. Network Address Translation-Traversal

(NAT-T) is also supported.

IPSEC

Cloud Gateway (local)

Cloud Gateway

(remote)

500 UDP Internet key exchange (ISAKMP) for the bidirectional tunnel. IPSEC

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Verify the Minimum Installation Environment

Before the installation, ensure that you have the following resources in your on-premises vCenter and your vCloud Air

vDC.

On Premises

• An on-premises Virtual Center created with vSphere 5.5 Update 1 or above.

• Administrator access to the source Virtual Center and any resources you want to connect to the cloud.

• In the vCenter, enough disk space for Hybrid Cloud Manager and the appliances you install, as stated in Table 1, and

any replicas remaining from migration. See “Understanding Replication-Based Migration.”

• Sufficient IP addresses for the on-premises VMs provisioned during the installation. The minimum requirements for

each configuration are specified in “Use Cases.”

• Ports and firewalls opened as required.

In vCloud Air

• A vCloud Air Dedicated Cloud subscription account.

• Hybrid Networking Standard or Premium add-on service. See

http://vcloud.vmware.com/service-offering/hybrid-

cloud-manager. You can purchase the add-on with a purchase order, or you can use the VMware Subscription

Purchasing Program.

Purchasing the Hybrid Networking add-on service automatically opens a vCloud Air operations ticket that upgrades

your vCloud Air Edge Gateway to a version with Advanced Network Services feature-set (ANS). Hybrid Cloud

Manager cannot successfully install until the vCloud Air Edge Gateway within the VDC is upgraded to Advanced

Network Services edition and your My VMware account reports the Hybrid Networking add-on service status is

available.

• A virtual datacenter (vDC) with sufficient resources for the appliances you want to install and any virtual machines

you will migrate. You must know the vDC’s username and password, and its IP address, gateway, and DNS

information.

• The target vDC must have at least one available IP address for the Hybrid Cloud Gateway. The “Use Cases” section

estimates the number of IP addresses required for each use case.

Note: If your Dedicated Cloud does not have an available IP address, you can purchase one. Log

into vCloud Air, and from the Dashboard tab click on the target vDC. On the lower right, under

Related Links, click Purchase More Resources. When My VMware opens, click Purchase Add-

ons and add more IP addresses to your service ID. For more about IP addresses in vCloud Air,

see “Allocation of Public IP Addresses

.”

Verify Layer 2 Installation Requirements

To support Layer 2 extension, your vSphere vCenter must meet these requirements:

• Must have a vSphere Distributed Switch

(vDS). The distributed switch is available with vSphere Enterprise Plus

Edition.

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• When installed, the on-premises L2 Concentrator service appliance must have access to a vNIC port and any vLANs

you want to stretch.

• If you choose to stretch a network over the public internet or your own VPN (on an alternate path, not the Hybrid

Cloud Gateway) then the L2C VM in your vCloud Air vDC also requires an IP address. If your architecture specifies

multiple L2Cs, each must have an IP address. You must know the remote IP address before you configure the L2C.

Verify the vCloud Air Edge Gateway Upgrade

To ensure support for Hybrid Cloud Manager you must log into your vCloud Air account and upgrade the target vCloud

Air gateway to support Advanced Networking Services. This assumes you have already purchased the Hybrid Networking

add-on service, and its status is “available,” as described in “Verify the Minimum Installation Environment” for vCloud

Air.

Note: Hybrid Cloud Manager only requires the upgraded Edge Gateway. Your Edge Gateway must be

upgraded to Advanced Networking before you install Hybrid Cloud Manager.

Follow the steps in Upgrade an Edge Gateway to Advanced Networking Services

(ignore the Advanced Networking

Service license prerequisite).

Install the vSphere Web Client Integration Plug-in

You must install the vSphere Web Client Integration Plug-in. With the vSphere Web Client you can use a browser to

connect to a vCenter Server system and manage an ESXi host.

The Hybrid Cloud Manager is delivered as an open virtualization archive (OVA) file. To install an OVA file, the vSphere

Web Client must have the client integration plug-in installed. See the documentation or the video for this task:

• Version 5.5u1: Documentation | Video

• Version 6: Documentation and Video

Installing and Configuring Hybrid Cloud Manager

This section explains how to deploy and configure the Hybrid Cloud Manager.

Install the Hybrid Cloud Manager Appliance

This procedure installs the Hybrid Cloud Manager appliance in your on-premises vCenter.

1. Log into My VMware and download

the Hybrid Cloud Manager OVA file from the product download page. Take note

of the OVA’s MD5 to verify the integrity of the file, then do an MD5 checksum after the file has been downloaded.

2. Log in to the vSphere Web Client.

3. In the Home tab Inventories list, click the vCenter icon.

Under Inventory Trees, click Hosts and Clusters.

Expand the hierarchy to show the Datacenters.

4. Right-click on the target datacenter and select Deploy OVF Template from the context menu.

It may take a few seconds for the Deploy OVF Template option to be displayed.

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5. Click Browse to locate the OVA file on your computer. Click Next.

The Deploy OVF Template opens.

6. On the Source page, browse for the file you downloaded in step 1, or, click the URL radio button and supply the URL:

https://my.vmware.com/en/group/vmware/details?downloadGroup=HCM110&productId=343|

Click Next.

a. On the “Review details” page, click the “Accept extra configuration options” check box and click Next.

b. On the Accept EULAs page, scroll down to review the VMware end user license agreement. Click Accept and

Next.

7. For the Destination:

a. On the “Select name and folder” page, edit the name (if required) and select the location for the Hybrid Cloud

Manager. Click Next.

b. On the “Select storage” page, select the storage for the Hybrid Cloud Manager and click Next.

c. On the “Setup networks” page, confirm that the Hybrid Cloud Manager adapter has been mapped to the

correct host network, and click Next.

d. On the “Customized template” page, specify the following values.

i. Type and re-type the CLI user password.

ii. Type and re-type the root user password.

iii. Click Network Properties and type the hostname for the Hybrid Cloud Manager virtual machine.

iv. Type the network IPv4 address, netmask, and default gateway.

v. Click DNS and type the IP addresses for DNS servers (separated by spaces) and the domain search list.

vi. Click Services Configuration and type the NTP server list (separated by spaces) for the Hybrid Cloud Manager

virtual machine.

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vii. (Optional) To enable SSH, select the Enable SSH checkbox. This gives an administrator SSH access to the

Hybrid Cloud Manager virtual management appliance.

viii. Click Next.

ix. On the vService bindings page, click Next.

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e. On the “Ready to complete” page:

i. Check the “Power on after deployment” checkbox.

ii. Review the Hybrid Cloud Manager settings, and click Finish.

It might take several minutes for the HCM appliance to power on.

8. To check the status, go to the Web Client home page, and in the Home tab, go to inventories and click Hosts and

Clusters. Expand the datacenter hierarchy, and click Hybrid Cloud Manager to display a summary in the center pane.

On the Summary tab, the console should read Powered On and the Play button should be green , as shown below:

The Hybrid Cloud Manager is powered on and ready to be registered with the vCenter.

This section describes how to register the Hybrid Cloud Manager plug-in in the vSphere Web Client and start the Hybrid

Cloud Manager management service.

Note: The Hybrid Cloud Manager virtual appliance must be powered on before it can be registered.

1. Go to vSphere Web Client home page and click on the Hybrid Cloud Services in the list of inventories on the left, or

Hybrid Cloud icon on the Home tab in the center pane.

The Hybrid Cloud Manager Getting Started tab opens in the center pane.

2. On the Getting Started tab, under “Basic tasks,” click the Register new Cloud link.

The Register New Cloud window opens.

a. Enter the cloud URL. For example: https://pv12-vcd.vchs.vmware.com/cloud/Organization-Name

b. Choose a vCenter from the “for vCenter” dropdown menu.

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c. Enter the username and password for your vCloud Air subscription account

d. Enter the Organization name.

e. Click Register.

3. Open a Web browser window and type the IP address assigned to the Hybrid Cloud Manager (step iv on page 15)

and specify the port 9443. For example, https://11.111.11.11:9443

a. The Hybrid Cloud Manager user interface opens in a web browser window using SSL.

b. Accept the security certificate. The Hybrid Cloud Manager login screen appears.

c. Log in to the Hybrid Cloud Manager virtual appliance using the username and password you set during

installation. Click Login.

The Hybridity & Networking Appliance Management page opens.

4. Click the Manage Settings tile.

a. In the left pane, under Configure Systems, select vCenter.

b. Click the Add vCenter button on the upper right.

c. Type the IP address of the vCenter Server. For example: https://11.111.11.10

d. Type the vCenter Server username and password.

e. Click OK. The following message appears:

5. From the Summary page, under Hybridity Management Components, identify the Application Engine.

Click Stop and then Start to restart the service.

Notice the existing Hybrid Cloud plugin icon and the Hybrid Cloud Services option on left, as indicated in red the

screenshot below. The Hybrid Cloud Manager will replace this icon. The labels change when the registration is

complete.

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6. To finalize the registration, log out of the vSphere Web Client. Log back in to verify that the screen is updated as

expected.

Configuring the Hybrid Cloud Manager for vCenters with an External Lookup Service

In the following situations, a vCenter won’t have its own instance of the lookup service:

• vCenter 6.0 running an external PSC

• Linked mode vCenter (where the secondary vCenter leverages the SSO service from the primary vCenter or an

external SSO service)

Make note of the vCenter or External SSO Server/PSC that runs the lookup service.

Perform the steps below for each Hybrid Cloud Manager in a vCenter that does not have its own lookup service:

1. Open the Hybrid Cloud Manager appliance management portal (https://<HCM IP>:9443).

2. Navigate to Manage > Lookup Service.

3. Click Edit on the far right of the Lookup Service URL field.

4. Type in the lookup service endpoint in the form https://<LOOKUP IP>:7444/lookupservice/sdk.

5. Click OK.

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6. Please restart web-engine after configuring the lookup service endpoint.

7. Go to Summary tab as shown below. Identify the “Web Engine” service listed under “Hybridity Management

Components”. Stop and then start the Web Engine service.

This procedure details how to associate the Hybrid Cloud Manager (on premises) with a vCloud Air endpoint.

1. Log into vCloud Air and click the My Subscriptions tile.

2. Log in to the vSphere Web Client. In the Home view, click on Hybrid Cloud Manager in the listing on the left, or in the

Inventories panel on the right.

The Hybrid Cloud Manager Getting Started page opens.

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VMware vCloud Air Hybrid Cloud Manager 1.0 User guide

VMware vCloud Air Hybrid Cloud Manager 1.0 User guide

VMware vCloud Air Hybrid Cloud Manager 1.0 User guide

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