# How To Install vCDA On-Premises appliance

## <mark style="color:green;">**Overview**</mark>  <a href="#overview" id="overview"></a>

This short manual guide is designed to help HI GIO users navigate

* *How to install vCDA On-Premises*
* *How to complete the vCDA Configuration Wizard*

## <mark style="color:green;">**Procedure**</mark> <a href="#procedure" id="procedure"></a>

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* Before installing the VMware Cloud Director Availability On-Premises Appliance, verify that the on-premises site meets the deployment requirements. Also, allow the network communication within the on-premises site and to the cloud site
* **vCenter Requirements.** 6.5U3, 6.7U3, 7.0 (GA-U3), 8.0 (GA, U1). (We also support vCenter 6.0U3, 5.5U3 only for migration purpose)
* **Network Requirements.** To get a list of the required firewall ports to be opened, see VMware Cloud Director Availability Network Ports.

**Link:** <https://ports.esp.vmware.com/home/VMware-Cloud-Director-Availability>

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* **Hardware Requirements.** From a hosting perspective, the VMware Cloud Director Availability On-Premises Appliance is a virtual machine with the following hardware requirements
  * 4 vCPUs
  * 4 GB RAM
  * 10 GB Storage
* **Deployment Requirements.** In ESXi hosts, a VMkernel interface can be dedicated for the replication traffic. By default, ESXi handles the replication traffic through its management VMkernel interface. As a best practice, you can separate the management traffic from the replication traffic by creating a dedicated VMkernel interface. Use following tags when creating a VMkernel interface for the replication traffic

Use the **vSphere Replication** tag to configure the ESXi host for the **Outgoing Replication Traffic**

Use the **vSphere Replication NFC** tag to configure the ESXi host for the **Incoming Replication Traffic**

* Configure the replication VMkernel interface in its own IP subnet and connect the VMware Cloud Director Availability On-Premises Appliance to the same virtual port group. Using this configuration, the replication traffic between the ESXi hosts and the VMware Cloud Director Availability On-Premises Appliance stays in the same broadcast domain. As a result, uncompressed replication traffic avoids crossing a router and saves the network bandwidth

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* The tenant deployment process is similar to all typical VMware OVF deployments. The tenant must install the vCloud Availability On-Premises Appliance OVA into the vCenter.
* Please download OVA file from this link

[![](https://idc.fdrive.vn/apps/theming/favicon?v=14)VMware-Cloud-Director-Availability-On-Premises-4.5.0.5226630-ab9eb01ccb\_OVF10.ova](https://idc.fdrive.vn/s/QgF5ZJNJr9sPCM4)

* Once downloaded, log into your vSphere Client and **Deploy OVF Template**

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* **Select an OVF template**. Install from a local file. Browse to the location of the previously downloaded OVA. Select the vCDA OVA file and click **Next**

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* **Select a name and folder**. Type in your desired virtual machine (appliance) name. Next, select a location for your virtual machine

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* **Select a compute resource**. Choose a host or a cluster for the appliance. Click **Next**

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* **Review details**. This is a chance for you to evaluate and verify the template

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* **License agreement**. Check the I accept all license agreements checkbox and click **Next**

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* **Select storage**. Configure optional storage options for the deployment and click **Next**

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* **Select networks.** Choose a destination network for every individual source network

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* **Customize template**. During this step of the wizard, customize the deployment

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* **Root Password**. Defining a root password is mandatory. However, you will need to change it when you log in to vCDA for the first time. So, you don’t need to define a very strong password at this point
* **Enable SSH**. Select the Enable SSH checkbox
* **NTP Server**. Enter the NTP server address the vCDA appliance will use. vCenter Server, ESXi, vCloud Director, Platform Services Controller, and the vCloud Availability appliance MUST all use the same NTP server
* **Hostname**. The hostname of VM
* **IP.** IP address ( e.g. **192.168.1.186/24** )
* **Gateway.** Gateway address
* **MTU.** MTU ( e.g. 1500 )
* **DNS Server.** IP DNS Server. It needs to resolvable the domain name of vCenter Server and Service Endpoint
* **Search Domains.** List of search Domains ( e.g. abc.local )
* **Ready to complete**. Review the settings. You can also select Power on after deployment. Click **Finish** to deploy the Appliance

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* **Log in to your vCDA** appliance at **<https://your-appliance-IP/ui/admin>**. Use the root/password defined during OVA deployment
* **Change the root password**. Set and confirm a new password. Create a strong password with at least eight (8) characters. Make sure to use lowercase, uppercase, numeric, and special characters.
* To get started, you will need to configure a **Lookup Service Endpoint**. To do so, select **Run Initial Setup Wizard**

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* **Lookup Service**. Enter your connection details to set up the lookup service along with SSO admin credentials
  * Lookup service address. Type in the following URL, adding the IP address of **your vCenter**: https\://*Ip-of-your-vcenter*:443/lookupservice/sdk
  * Enter SSO admin account credentials in the Username and Password field

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* **Site Details**. In it, type your **Site Name** and optionally, a short **Description** about the site. Click **Next**

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* Proceed to the configure **Cloud Details** by pairing up your **vCloud and vCDA sites**

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* **Service Endpoint Address**, **Organization Admin and Organization Password** is provided by HI GIO Support
* Configure your organization’s credentials for logging in to the cloud site. Type in **Organization Admin** (user\@org) and **Organization Password**
  * Optional: Select Allow Access from Cloud. If you select this feature, the cloud provider and organization administrators can access and perform certain operations through the vCloud Availability Port
  * If you leave this feature deselected, configuring new replications will only be accessible to users authenticated to the on-premises vCloud Availability Portal. Additionally, no existing replications will be reversed from the Portal
  * **Service Endpoint Address**, **Organization Admin and Organization Password** is provided by HI GIO Support

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* Click **Next** and accept the **SSL certificate** of the vCenter Server Lookup to continue

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* **Move on to Ready to Complete**. It shows the details you have provided in the previous steps. Verify that everything is accurate
  * **Check Configure local placement** **now** to enable cloud to datacenter replications. Leaving the box unchecked requires additional set up to configure the replications

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