Vmware virtual center setup

Locate the exported certificate. To find the location where you want to place the certificateOn the Certificate Store screen, click Place all certificates in the following store and click Browse. Click Next and then click Finish to import the certificate successfully.

Once you have added the certificate, sign into your vCenter server to verify the connection is secure. DPM uses your user name and password as credentials for communicating and authenticating with VMware server. A vCenter user account has, at least the following privileges, which are required for successfully protecting a VM. The following table captures the privileges that you need to assign to the user account that you create:. On the Summary screen, select the server you want to add, and click Add.

If your organization does not want to use secure communication protocol HTTPS , you can create a registry key to disable it. To create this registry key:. Save the file with the name, DisableSecureAuthentication. However, before you begin protection, you need to allocate disk storage that DPM can use for short-term storage. Once you select a folder for protection, all folders and VMs within this folder are automatically detected and protected. This is called folder-level protection. DPM supports scale-out protection of VMware server clusters.

The new scale-out feature removes the limit of a one-to-one relationship between a VMware cluster and a DPM server. To deploy scale-out protection, there must be a minimum of two DPM servers. When protection groups on D1 or D2 are created, any virtual machine can be added. You specify the protection method while creating the new Protection Group. For all operational recovery scenarios like accidental deletion or corruption scenarios, back up to disk.

For long-term retention or offsite backup requirements, back up to tape or cloud. For long term retention on VMware backup data on-premises, you can now enable VMware backups to tape. The backup frequency can be selected based on the retention range which will vary from years on tape drives. The data on tape drives could be both compressed and encrypted. In the Select Group Members screen, expand the Available members folders and select the folders to protect and click Next.

Once you select a folder, the member is added to the Selected members list. Items already protected by a DPM server cannot be selected again. View the DPM server that protects an item by hovering over the item in the Available members list.

On the Select Data Protection Method screen, type a Protection group name , and then select the protection method. For protection method, you can choose: short-term protection to a hard drive, long term backup to tape, or online protection to the cloud. Once you've selected your protection method, click Next.

If you have a standalone tape or tape library connected to the DPM server, you'll be able to select I want long-term protection using tape. If you want to change the schedule when application recovery points are taken, click Modify. On the Express Full Backup tab, choose a new schedule for the time s and days of the week when Express Full Backups are taken. When you have the short-term goals you like, click Next.

If you want to store data on tape for long-term storage in Specify long-term goals , indicate how long you want to keep tape data years. In Frequency of backup , specify how often backups to tape should run. The frequency is based on the retention range you've specified:. On a stand-alone tape drive, for a single protection group, DPM uses the same tape for daily backups until there is insufficient space on the tape. You can also collocate data from different protection groups on tape.

The Status screen appears and gives you an update on the creation of your protection group, and the state of your initial backup. For an overview on using DPM to recover data, see Recover protected data. When recovering data, you may, or may not want to restore data or a VM to the same location. You can restore individual files from a protected VM recovery point.

This feature is only available for Windows Server VMs. Restoring individual files is similar to restoring the entire VM, except you browse into the VMDK and find the file s you want, before starting the recovery process.

To recover an individual file or select files from a Windows Server VM:. Using the Browse pane, browse or filter to find the VM you want to recover. Once you select a VM or folder, the Recovery points for pane displays the available recovery points. However, no more recommendations for guest reallocation or automatic reallocation of the guest VMs will happen.

Assuming you have your License server installed on the same host as the Virtual Center server and that host is down you cannot issue any new licenses for new hosts or new features. All ESX Server licensed features will operate for 14 days even if rebooted.

Still, what is most important is that even without a license server and Virtual Center, all ESX hosts and guests continue to function for 14 days. Let us say that you are concerned about what would happen if your Virtual Center server goes down. Virtual Center is not cluster aware at least in version 3.

If you are already using VMHA for your critical production machines, running Virtual Center in it should be a no-brainer. If you are looking for a true high-availability option for Virtual Center, the only option dedicated to the task is NeverFail for VMware Virtual Center.

Besides automated failover, NeverFail for VC provides automated failback. While there is no single answer that fits the needs of every company, my recommendation for those wanting to ensure higher availably of their Virtual Center server, I would first recommend option 2, above. In the Authoring section, click the Start Order option to expand settings. Select the necessary VM and click the up or down buttons in the graphical user interface of VMware vSphere Client to increase or reduce the VM start priority.

Set the Power On operation for a startup action. The delay between start of VMs is seconds by default. Be aware that VMware Tools can initialize faster than Oracle database starts; hence, the VMware Tools are ready checkbox should not be used in all cases.

This is important because if VM2 with application 2 that is dependent on application 1 installed on VM1 boots when the application 1 is not ready on VM1, errors can occur in application 2. VMs are placed in groups. One group can contain multiple VMs. Make sure that the shutdown action is set to Guest Shutdown , not Power Off to verify that VMs have shut down correctly. Note: The Power Off action for a VM is the same as unplugging a power cable from a physical computer.

The Guest Shutdown action uses VMware Tools installed on a guest operating system to initiate shutting down a machine by sending a shutdown signal, much as you would run the init 0 command in Linux or shutdown -s -t 0 in Windows. IP allocation options. There are some additional options for VMware vApps. You can clone vApps much as you would clone VMs. Shut down the vApp and make sure that all VMs of the vApp are powered off. In the New vApp wizard, select cloning options much like you would have selected for creating a new vApp and cloning standalone VMs.

OVF is a widely used format for distributing VMs as templates. You can export your vApp to an OVF template and distribute the pre-configured vApp to your partners and customers, for instance. You can also deliver a pre-configured vApp to testers and developers to find bugs and fix them. You may need to install the Client Integration Plug-in.

Support for nested vApps allows you to create vApps inside a parent vApp that provides you with a more granular approach to vApp management. A complex application can use multiple multi-tier applications that, in turn, consist of multiple VMs grouped using vApps. VMware vApps are used to deploy multi-tier applications which components are running on different VMs, as well as grouping VMs used for a similar purpose. The most commonly used vApp feature is the VM Start Order that allows you to start the VMs running dependent applications in the right order through launching the vApp first.

This way, you can provide proper operation of the components and of the entire multi-tier application. Additionally, a vApp can be used in disaster recovery scenarios to recover all necessary VMs from an exported OVF template file.