Prerequisites for adding VMware virtualization servers
Ensure that the following requirements are met to add the VMware vCenter or ESX servers to Resiliency Platform for discovery by an Infrastructure Management Server (IMS):
Ensure that the IMS can ping the vCenter servers or the ESX servers from which it can discover the information on VMware Infrastructure.
If you want to have secure communication with the VMware vCenter server, ensure that you have installed the root CA certificate in the Resiliency Platform. Refer to See Managing security.
Ensure that the vCenter Server user account that is used to add the servers to Resiliency Platform has the following privileges assigned on the data center level, depending upon your preferred data availability options:
See VMware vCenter Server privileges: configuring ESX servers .
See VMware vCenter Server privileges: basic monitoring of assets.
See VMware vCenter Server privileges: using third party replication .
See VMware vCenter Server privileges: replication to cloud data center.
See VMware vCenter Server privileges: replication using in-guest mode of Resiliency Platform Data Mover.
See VMware vCenter Server privileges: for recovery of physical machines to VMware.
You can configure a VMware vCenter to:
Start and stop the virtual machines.
Recover virtual machines to and from a remote premise based VMware data center
Recover virtual machines to and from a remote cloud based VMware data center
Recover virtual machines to a remote cloud data center
For recovery of virtual machines in remote data center, Resiliency Platform supports following data availability choices:
Replication using Resiliency Platform Datamover using VAIO interfaces (Hypervisor mode)
Replication using Resiliency Platform Datamover using an in-guest component (In-guest mode)
Replication using third party array replication technologies
Replication of backups of virtual machines using NetBackup AIR technology
Replication of backups of virtual machines to cloud using NetBackup Cloud Catalyst