The Veeam Cookbook Series

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Recipe: Adding VMware Cloud Director

Cloud Director added to Veeam infrastructure, which enables to work with its vApps and VMs.

Time to complete: 5 minutes

Ingredients:

A Cloud Director infrastructure with one or more vCenters
An account that has Cloud Director administrative permissions is required.
Proper communication between Veeam Backup Server and Cloud Director Server, and vCenter Servers that manages Cloud Director VMs.

Before you start:

There is no need of downloading or manually deploying any piece of Veeam software before proceeding with this recipe.

Assumptions: You have a Veeam Backup and Replication server installed.

Method:

Open the Veeam Backup & Replication Console.
Open the Backup Infrastructure view. In the inventory pane, select the Managed Servers node and click Add Server on the ribbon. In the Add Server window, click Virtualization Platforms > VMware vSphere > Cloud Director.
At the Name step of the wizard, specify an address (Full DNS Name or IP Address), an URL and description for the Cloud Director server. Click Next.
From the Credentials list, select credentials for the account that has system administrator privileges on Cloud Director. Click Next.
From the vCenter Servers list, specify credentials for every vCenter Server added to Cloud Director.
- Select a vCenter from the list, click Account on the right and select credentials to connect to the vCenter Server.
- If necessary, you can change the connection port for the vCenter Server by clicking vCenter on the right.
- Click in Apply to continue. If the certificate installed on the server is not trusted, Veeam Backup & Replication displays a warning. If you trust the server, click Continue.
At the Apply step of the wizard, review details of the added Cloud Director vCenters. Then click Next, and then click Finish to exit the wizard.

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