Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Installing a Remote Agent Appliance for VMware vCenter

Install a remote agent appliance to connect with an external environment.

  1. Open the navigation menu  and select Migration & Disaster Recovery. Under Cloud Migrations, select Remote Connections.
  2. On the Source environments page, from the list of environments, select the active environment for which you want to install the remote agent appliance.
  3. On the environment details page, click Download agent VM, and download the remote agent appliance Open Virtualization Application (OVA) file.
  4. In the Download agent VM panel, select an appropriate remote agent appliance from the list of agents, and click Download.
  5. Sign in to the vSphere Client of the external environment and deploy the remote agent appliance OVA file.
    For information about deploying an Open Virtualization Format (OVF) or an Open Virtualization Application (OVA) template on VMware vSphere, see VMware documentation.

    To know about the information that you can use when deploying an OVF or OVA template, see Details for Deploying an OVA or OVF Template.

  6. Wait for the remote agent appliance VM to be created on the external environment, and then power on the appliance.
  7. To power on the remote agent appliance VM, right-click the VM under the object pool, choose Power, and then click Power On.
  8. To verify that the remote agent appliance VM is running, from the right pane, click Launch Web Console under the VM.
You can now register the remote agent appliance with a source environment.
You can also do the following after you install a remote agent appliance:

Details for Deploying an OVA or OVF Template

This task describes the information that you can provide on vSphere Client when installing the remote agent appliance.

After logging into vSphere Client, right-click an object pool, and then choose Deploy OVF Template. You can enter the details in the Deploy OVF Template wizard, as mentioned here:

  1. For the Select an OVF template page, click the Local file option and browse to select the remote agent appliance that you have downloaded in Step 4 of Installing a Remote Agent Appliance for VMware vCenter.
  2. For the Select a name and folder page, enter a unique name for the virtual machine with which the VM is identified in VMware.
    Note

    Ensure that the virtual machine name is unique within the vCenter server virtual machine folder.
  3. For the Select a compute resource page, proceed next to continue with the default deployment location.
    The default deployment location is the object pool from where you started using the Deploy OVF Template wizard in Step 1.
  4. For the Review details page, proceed next to continue with the default values.
  5. For the Select storage page, proceed next to continue with the default values.
  6. For the Select networks page, choose the following for the destination networks of the source network:
    • External Network: Choose the network that provides connectivity with Oracle cloud (Internet).
    • Internal Network: Choose the network that provides connectivity within VMware vCenter.
  7. For the Customize template page, enter the following information for various properties:

    1. OS properties

      Hostname: Specify the host network name. If you don't specify the hostname, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) assigns a relevant hostname.
    2. Network properties
      1. IP address: Specify the IP address of eth0. Only IPv4 addresses are supported. If you don't specify the IP address, then it is set to DHCP.
      2. Gateway: Specify the gateway of eth0. If you don't specify the gateway, it is set to DHCP.
      3. DNS: Specify IP address of the domain name system (DNS) server. If you don't specify, then DHCP lease must include a DNS server IP address.

        For the replication to work, the Remote Agent Appliance must have connectivity to a DNS server that resolves addresses for names in the oraclecloud.com domain and the fully qualified domain names (FQDN) of VMware infrastructure components (vCenter Server and ESXi hosts). For more information, see Prerequisites.

      4. DNS Domain: Specifies the DNS domain. If you don't specify the domain, it is set to DHCP.
    3. Proxy properties
      1. HTTPS Proxy: Specify the HTTPS proxy settings for Internet access. The login and password are optional.
      2. Non-proxied DNS domains: Specify a comma-separated list of domain HTTP(s) connections to bypass the HTTPS proxy.
    4. Time properties

      NTP Server: Specify a comma-separated list of NTP server addresses or DNS names to be used instead of the appliance-hard-coded list when the entry is not empty.

After clicking Finish on the Ready to complete page, the virtual machine is created under the selected object pool.

The virtual machine isn't powered on now. To power on the VM, see Step 6 of Installing a Remote Agent Appliance.