Step-by-Step Guide: Deploying Vembu BDR Virtual Appliance for Efficient Data Backup and Recovery
KB ID : 37
Purpose
To deploy Vembu BDR server virtual appliance in VMware virtual environment.
Solution
To import OVF file to VMware ESXi host, follow below steps
- Login ESXi server from the vSphere client
- Go to File > Deploy OVF template, browse and select the OVF file.
- Select the required options to launch virtual machine.
- Then click next.
- OVF template details are shown this page. Click the next button.
- Give the virtual appliance name to create an EXSi host machine.
- Here select the hard disk type as thin or thick.
- Click finish and check if the deployment has started in the ESXi server
- Once the deployment is completed successfully, try logging in the virtual machine with the given username and password.
Default User details: User name: root Password: password - Open terminal to verify if Mysql, Mongo and Vembu BDR services have started.
- Then open any web browser(FireFox or Chrome) and browse (`https://localhost:6061`)
- Login Vembu BDR Backup Server web console with the given username and password
User name: admin Password: admin
- Then select the time zone setting for this machine.
- Then enter the Vembu BDR ID
- Once Vembu BDR ID configuration successfully done after selecting the repository
- Once update the Repository
- From now on, configure a backup from the client end.
Limitation:
KVM installation has some permission issues.
Supported:
This template can be deployed to ESXi server 6.0,5.5, and 5.1