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NaviCloud Director®

Proximity Portal

Introductory Tutorial

April 2016

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Contents 1. Introduction to NaviCloud Director® .................................................................................................... 5

1.1. Basic Terminology – vCloud, vDC, vApp, VM ................................................................................ 5

1.2. Proximity portal NCD user interface ............................................................................................. 6

1.3. Logging in ...................................................................................................................................... 7

1.4. Navigation – left-pane menu ........................................................................................................ 7

1.5. Accessing Help Center, Knowledge Base documentation ............................................................ 8

1.6. Accessing NCD Context-Sensitive Help and Navigation ................................................................ 9

1.7. Other ways of managing NCD ..................................................................................................... 14

2. Managing a vDC .................................................................................................................................. 16

2.1. vDC summary and detail pages ................................................................................................... 16

2.2. Creating a vDC ............................................................................................................................. 18

3. Managing a vApp ................................................................................................................................ 20

3.1. vApp summary and detail pages ................................................................................................. 20

3.2. Creating a vApp ........................................................................................................................... 21

3.3. Managing vApps .......................................................................................................................... 27

4. Managing a VM ................................................................................................................................... 28

4.1. VM summary and detail pages ................................................................................................... 30

4.2. VM configuration change example: Adding a NIC ...................................................................... 31

4.3. VM configuration change example: Adding disk ........................................................................ 32

4.4. VM configuration change example: Adding memory ................................................................. 33

4.5. VM configuration change example: Adding public internet access behavior ............................ 34

5. NCD-to-NCD Replication ..................................................................................................................... 36

5.1. vApp / VM replication overview ................................................................................................. 36

5.2. vApp / VM replication example .................................................................................................. 38

6. Customer-to-NCD Replication ............................................................................................................. 39

6.1. On-premise to NCD replication overview ................................................................................... 39

6.2. On-premise to NCD replication procedure ................................................................................. 39

7. NCD Billing Information ...................................................................................................................... 43

7.1. Billing Overview .......................................................................................................................... 43

7.2. Billing Detail Drill-down .............................................................................................................. 44

7.3. Rate Card ..................................................................................................................................... 48

7.4. Billing trends per object .............................................................................................................. 49

7.5. Billing alerts ................................................................................................................................. 50

8. Managing Users in NCD ...................................................................................................................... 52

8.1. Add User ...................................................................................................................................... 53

8.2. Edit User ...................................................................................................................................... 54

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Table of Figures

Figure 1: NCD cloud objects basic terminology ............................................................................................ 5

Figure 2: Proximity portal ............................................................................................................................. 6

Figure 3: NCD’s Proximity login displays ....................................................................................................... 7

Figure 4: NCD navigation .............................................................................................................................. 7

Figure 5: NCD knowledge base documentation access from Proximity portal ............................................ 8

Figure 6: Context-sensitive page-level help .................................................................................................. 9

Figure 7: Context-sensitive field-level help ................................................................................................. 10

Figure 8: Context-sensitive field-level and diagram popup info and nav ................................................... 11

Figure 9: Network Overview diagram ......................................................................................................... 12

Figure 10: Object diagrams – vDC, vApp ..................................................................................................... 13

Figures 11: Access to NCD assets through VMware vCloud Director (vCD) ............................................... 14

Figure 12: vDataCenters (vDC) summary page ........................................................................................... 16

Figure 13: vDataCenters (vDC) detail page ................................................................................................. 17

Figure 14: Create vDataCenter from vDC summary page ........................................................................... 18

Figure 15: Create vDC dialog page 1 ........................................................................................................... 18

Figure 16: Create vDC dialog page 2 ........................................................................................................... 19

Figure 17: vApp detail page ........................................................................................................................ 20

Figure 18: Create vApp dialog page 1, basic info ........................................................................................ 21

Figure 19: Create vApp dialog page 2, template selection ......................................................................... 22

Figure 20: Create vApp dialog page 3, network info .................................................................................. 23

Figure 21: Create vApp dialog page 4, VM 1 info ....................................................................................... 25

Figure 22: Create vApp dialog page 4, VM 2 info ....................................................................................... 26

Figure 23: vApp summary page .................................................................................................................. 27

Figure 24: vApp detail page -- configuration aspects, sections, and controls ............................................ 27

Figure 25: VM summary page ..................................................................................................................... 28

Figure 26: VMs in vApp detail page diagram .............................................................................................. 28

Figure 27: VMs in vApp detail page “Children/VMs” section ..................................................................... 29

Figure 28: VMs in vApp detail page “Children/VMs” section ..................................................................... 29

Figure 29: VM detail page ........................................................................................................................... 30

Figure 30: VM detail page, cont’d ............................................................................................................... 31

Figure 31: VM – adding a NIC ...................................................................................................................... 31

Figure 32: VM – adding disk ........................................................................................................................ 32

Figure 33: VM – adding memory ................................................................................................................ 33

Figure 34: VM – adding public internet access behavior ............................................................................ 34

Figure 35: Services summary page, “NCD-to-NCD Replication” section..................................................... 36

Figure 36: Zerto Virtual Replication UI as lunched from NCD..................................................................... 37

Figure 37: Accessing Zerto online helpfile .................................................................................................. 37

Figure 38: VM replication example ............................................................................................................. 38

Figure 39: Customer-to-NCD replication service request initiation ........................................................... 40

Figure 40: “Zerto Virtual Replication Installation Guide” TOC, example .................................................... 41




Figure 41: Accessing Zerto online helpfile .................................................................................................. 42

Figure 42: Admin NCD Billing overview page – table and chart views ....................................................... 43

Figure 43: Billing month detail page ........................................................................................................... 45

Figure 44: Billing vDC detail page................................................................................................................ 46

Figure 45: Billing point cost calculation context help bubble ..................................................................... 47

Figure 46: Billing rate card .......................................................................................................................... 48

Figure 47: NCD cloud object billing graph (vApp) ....................................................................................... 49

Figure 48: Billing alerts summary page ....................................................................................................... 50

Figure 49: Create billing alert dialog ........................................................................................................... 51

Figure 50: In-application billing alert display example ............................................................................... 51

Figure 51: Users summary page .................................................................................................................. 52

Figure 52: Create user dialog ...................................................................................................................... 53

Figure 53: Users detail page ........................................................................................................................ 54

Figure 54: User history, Users detail page .................................................................................................. 55




1. Introduction to NaviCloud Director®

NaviCloud Director® (NCD) drives business growth by enabling rapid deployment of business-critical

resources in a usable, scalable and efficient manner, while enabling transparent access to cloud or

physical workloads. NaviCloud Director’s architectural platform characteristics:

Enterprise-class resources

Software Defined Networking

Security – Rich feature set flexibly accommodates customer choice of security framework and

compliant build-out.

Flexible Architectures – Accommodating varying resource allocation and virtual and hybrid

environments.

Availability – 99.999% SLA for cloud resources.

Performance – VMs have access to as much CPU and memory as is required for the client

application. 10 Gigabit connections between all hardware components.

1.1. Basic Terminology – vCloud, vDC, vApp, VM

This section provides a high-level overview – illustration, definitions – of NCD object terminology.

Figure 1: NCD cloud objects basic terminology

vCloud – A vCloud refers to the installed instance of VMware’s vCloud Director (vCD, the

software platform upon which NCD is built), identified by the physical location of the data

center. Each NaviCloud Director customer has a single AppCenter account with access to one or

more vClouds. Customers are able to access all vClouds and may use whichever are appropriate

for business needs.


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vDataCenter (vDC) –Within each vCloud, the customer can create multiple Virtual Data Centers

(vDCs). A vDC is a group of resources within a vCloud. vDCs can be made separate and distinct,

for example, based on geographic location (one vDC on the east coast and one on the west

coast); or based on consumption models (one vDC can have a fixed amount of resources for

budgetary purposes while another has unlimited resources).

vApp – Within each vDC, there are one or more virtual applications (vApps). A vApp is a

collection of virtual machines and networks that make up an application. Examples:

o Simple file sharing application on a flat network.

o Application with over 100 VMs on multiple networks.

VM – Software implementation of a physical computer, using a fraction of underlying hardware.

A VM has an installed operating system, may have installed applications, and otherwise

performs as a physical computer.

1.2. Proximity portal NCD user interface

NaviSite serves the NCD application through the function-rich, highly usable interface Proximity.

Proximity integrates access to your NCD environment with access to your NaviSite customer service

environment.

Figure 2: Proximity portal





1.3. Logging in

NaviCloud Director usernames are in format user@organization, where:

"user" is the Username value saved through the system's add user procedure;

"organization" is the vCloud organization name (usually a short version of your company name,

assigned by NaviSite).

Figure 3: NCD’s Proximity login displays

1.4. Navigation – left-pane menu

Access feature functionality starting from the left-pane’s persistently displayed navigation menu.

Click to bring up feature object and configuration pages in the right pane.

Figure 4: NCD navigation



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1.5. Accessing Help Center, Knowledge Base documentation

Access continually updated knowledge base articles on NCD use and functionality through the

Proximity Help Center and Knowledge Base, http://navisite.uservoice.com/:

Figure 5: NCD knowledge base documentation access from Proximity portal


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1.6. Accessing NCD Context-Sensitive Help and Navigation

NCD provides context help throughout the application, both at the page level and the entry field

level. NCD also provides extensive, link-enabled popup information and navigation ramps

throughout the application. Here’s a summary of how to use these features to increase ease of use

and productivity in NCD.

Page-level help: To access knowledge base articles relevant to the page you’re on at any time, click

the page’s ?Help button at upper right and select Help with this page. NCD launches the document

page in a separate browser tab.

Figure 6: Context-sensitive page-level help




Field-level help: To access field-level context help bubbles, click question mark icons

provided alongside entry and display fields

Figure 7: Context-sensitive field-level help




Field-level and diagram popup information and navigation: To access popup info/nav bubbles,

click magnifying glass icons and diagram icons throughout NCD.

The resulting popups include name, location, and characteristics of NCD objects. Such popups and

diagrams frequently include one or more links to speed your navigation directly to the object, and

even to specific configuration aspects of the object (e.g. network interface, IPs, FWs, NATs etc.).

Figure 8: Context-sensitive field-level and diagram popup info and nav




Content diagrams: NCD includes numerous link-and-popup-enabled diagrams to depict object

relationships and speed navigation, including:

The left nav pane includes a NCD Network diagram depicting the networking between your

VMs and the Internet and providing links to object configuration detail:

Figure 9: Network Overview diagram





vDataCenter, vApp, and VM detail pages include object diagrams depicting the respective

cloud object’s content and relation to other objects and networking paths:

Figure 10: Object diagrams – vDC, vApp







1.7. Other ways of managing NCD

In addition to using the NaviCloud Director interface, you may also manage your assets from

VMware's vCloud Director (vCD) interface. vCD is the software platform upon which NCD is built.

You can access your NCD assets in vCD by entering vCD from NCD itself (no login required); or by

logging into vCD separately; or directly through available NCD object “View in vCloud” buttons.

1.6.1. Links to vCD

Figures 11: Access to NCD assets through VMware vCloud Director (vCD)

Accessing vCD through NCD:

Accessing an NCD vApp in vCD through “View in vCloud”:




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1.6.2. API info

For those customers who wish to utilize third party provisioning tools or a direct programmatic

interface, NCD also makes available the (RESTful XML-based) vCloud API. Both NCD and vCloud

Director interface through this API, so our customers can be sure that they get the same level of

direct access as the provisioning portals. More information and the URLs for the API can be

found within the UserVoice Knowledge Base – as can a dedicated API category of articles.


http://navisite.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/230088-navicloud-director-api

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2. Managing a vDC

A vDataCenter (virtual datacenter or vDC) is a software-defined logical container which provides

computing and infrastructure resources to your NCD networks, vApps, and their contents. Your NCD

configuration can have multiple vDataCenters, which may be located in different physical vCloud

Director locations. You specify a vDataCenter in the configuration of networks and vApps.

When you create or update a vDataCenter, you specify explicit limits on -- or leave unlimited -- the

virtual resources contained within the vDC. vDataCenter configuration enables you to impose limitations

on the number of CPUs, amount of memory, and amount of storage allocated.

2.1. vDC summary and detail pages

The vDC summary page, accessed through the left-pane "vDataCenters" navigation, lists vDCs in

NaviCloud Director. From the vDataCenters page you can add new vDCs, and also drill into vDC

detail pages to review, edit, and delete existing vDataCenters.

Figure 12: vDataCenters (vDC) summary page






The vDC detail page displays and provides information and/or configuration access to:

vDataCenter status

Available actions

Content diagram

Resource limits and usage

Task history

Billing data

Network and vApp configuration

Catalog items

Network services

VPNs

Public IPs

Other definitional properties.

Figure 13: vDataCenters (vDC) detail page




2.2. Creating a vDC

2.2.1. From vDC summary page, click Create vDataCenter button.

Figure 14: Create vDataCenter from vDC summary page

2.2.2. Name the new vDC (name required to be unique across your vClouds), select its vCloud,

click Next.

Figure 15: Create vDC dialog page 1

2.2.3. Specify any limits to be placed on the vDC's number of CPUs, amount of Memory, or

amount of Storage. Leave limit values blank if no limits should be imposed. Example

limits:

50 vCPUs

100 GB memory

1000 GB disk standard storage




The “Maximum cost” field populates based on limit values entered:

Figure 16: Create vDC dialog page 2

2.2.4. Click Finish.

2.2.5. NCD creates vDC (task starts and completes) and adds to vDCs listed in vDC summary

page table.




3. Managing a vApp

A vApp (or virtual application) is a logical container for virtual resources. A vApp can contain VMs (virtual

machines), networks, and networking rules. Resources within a vApp can be controlled from the vApp

level. For example, all child VMs can be powered on or off at once by changing the status of the vApp.

3.1. vApp summary and detail pages

The vApp summary page, accessed through the left-pane "vApps" navigation, lists vApps in

NaviCloud Director. Toggle the My vApps / All vApps control to change the list display. "My Apps"

shows those vApps to which you have write access, either because you are the vApp owner or

because they have been shared to you. "All Apps" shows vApps to which you have read access.

From the vApp summary page you can add new vApps, and also drill into vApp detail pages to

review, edit, and delete existing vApps.

The vApp detail page displays vApp status, available actions, performance, task history, billing data,

networking, VMs, and other definitional properties -- information and/or configuration access to:

vApp status Networks

Available actions VMs

Content Diagram Snapshots

Task history Sharing

Billing data Other object properties

Figure 17: vApp detail page






3.2. Creating a vApp

There are several ways to create a vApp:

On the vApp list page, click the Create vApp button under the “vApps” heading.

On the detail page for a vDC, go to the vApps section and click Create vApp.

On the detail page for a vApp template, click the Deploy button.

Any of the three methods brings up the vApp creation wizard.

The first step of the wizard allows you specify basic information and location for the new vApp.

Depending on your choices, there may be subsequent steps in the configuration process. When you

are on the last step of the process, the "Next" button turns into a "Finish" button.

3.2.1. Specify vApp details and location:

vApp Name - The name cannot be blank and cannot be the same as another vApp in the

organization.

vCloud and vDataCenter - The location of the new vApp.

Figure 18: Create vApp dialog page 1, basic info




3.2.2. Choose vApp Template

The next step is choosing a vApp template -- or choosing to create the vApp from scratch. Basic

templates are provided by NaviSite in "Public Templates" category, and user-defined templates

are in "My Templates". You can expand templates to show network and VM detail. Click

the Select button for the template you wish to use. Alternatively, click the Select button for "No

Template (create from scratch)":

Figure 19: Create vApp dialog page 2, template selection




3.2.3. Specify vApp networking:

The next step allows you to customize or create vApp networks. For each network, you can:

Modify the network gateway address.

Change the parent vDC network connection. Selecting a parent network connection of

“None” will result in an isolated network, which will not be connected to other networks

or the Internet.

Once the vApp has been created, the parent of a network cannot be changed. However, the

network itself can later be deleted and replaced with a new network.

Here we add a front end and back end network:

Figure 20: Create vApp dialog page 3, network info




3.2.4. Add VMs. For each VM, you can edit:

Name – VM names must be unique within the vApp.

Hostname

Storage Policy – Standard or High (high-speed/low latency SSD-based storage –

available in Andover vCloud March 2015).

Initial Backup – Checkbox; sets VM to be backup-enabled upon initial creation. (Cost

estimate display reflects your setting.)

Offsite Backup – Checkbox displayed if "Initial Backup" is checked. Sets VM to be

remote-backup-enabled upon initial creation.

Administrator password setting

Antivirus – For Windows VMs; checkbox to enable AV service on the VM. The Security

Profile selection list appears, populated by default with a profile value recommended

for the VM. The value selected as Security Profile is mapped to the Trend Micro portal's

"Policy" field for the VM's AV service.

NIC Connected To

For Windows servers, you may check the Change SID box to cause VMware Tools to generate a

new, unique SID (Security Identifier) for the VM.

For Windows servers, you may check the Antivirus checkbox to enable AV service on the

VM. The Security Profile selection list appears, populated by default with a profile value

recommended for the VM. The value selected as Security Profile is mapped to the Trend Micro

portal's "Policy" field for the VM's AV service.

Here we add two VMs: A Windows web server connected to the front end network and a

CentOS database server connected to the back end network:







Figure 21: Create vApp dialog page 4, VM 1 info




Figure 22: Create vApp dialog page 4, VM 2 info




3.3. Managing vApps

All vApps, newly created or previously existing, appear in the vApp page table listing:

Figure 23: vApp summary page

Clicking into a vApp detail page enables you to power it up and access its components for

information and configuration:

Figure 24: vApp detail page -- configuration aspects, sections, and controls




4. Managing a VM

VMs in NCD reside within the context of vApps.

You can navigate to VMs for review and configuration through the VM link in NCD’s left navigation pane:

Figure 25: VM summary page

VMs are also both listed and shown diagrammatically within their parent vApps, and can be accessed

through a vApp:

Figure 26: VMs in vApp detail page diagram





Figure 27: VMs in vApp detail page “Children/VMs” section

You can also use NCD’s global search to find VMs:

Figure 28: VMs in vApp detail page “Children/VMs” section




4.1. VM summary and detail pages

The VM summary page, accessed through the left-pane "VMs" navigation, lists VMs in NaviCloud

Director. Toggle the My VMs / All VMs control to change the list display. "My VMs" shows those

VMs to which you have write access, either because you are the vApp owner or because their vApps

have been shared to you. "All VMs" shows VMs to which you have read access.

From the VM summary page, or from VM links in a vApp diagram or table, you can drill into VM

detail pages to review, edit, and delete existing VMs.

The VM detail page displays VM information and/or configuration access to:

VM status, available actions Disks

Managed services Network Interfaces

Performance graphs (running VMs) Behaviors

Content Diagram Antivirus, Backup, Patching configurations

Task history VM Config (Snapshots, Replication, Guest Monitoring, etc.)

Billing data Other object properties

Figure 29: VM detail page












Figure 30: VM detail page, cont’d

4.2. VM configuration change example: Adding a NIC

From a VM detail page, click the Network Interfaces section. Click Add NIC button. From dialog

select Network and IP Allocation values. Submit by clicking Add Network Interface button.

Figure 31: VM – adding a NIC




4.3. VM configuration change example: Adding disk

From a VM detail page, click the Disks section. Click Add Disk button. Specify disk Size and check

green checkmark to submit.

Figure 32: VM – adding disk




4.4. VM configuration change example: Adding memory

From a VM detail page, click the gear icon in the Memory status box. Specify an increase in memory

and check green checkmark to submit.

Figure 33: VM – adding memory




4.5. VM configuration change example: Adding public internet access behavior

From a VM detail page, Power On the VM. Click the Behaviors section. Click Add Behavior button.

From dialog submit by clicking Add behavior button of “Public Service” behavior. From dialog

specify VM NIC, Public IP, Internet Protocol, and Port – click Add Behavior to submit.

Figure 34: VM – adding public internet access behavior




5. NCD-to-NCD Replication

NaviCloud Director integrates with the Zerto virtual replication system, through which you can configure

hypervisor-based replication of applications and VMs for business continuity and disaster recovery.

5.1. vApp / VM replication overview

To launch the Zerto replication user interface from NCD:

1. Click the left navigation pane's Services/NCD Services option.

2. From the NCD Services page expand the NCD-to-NCD Replication section. The service is

enabled by default in all vClouds.

3. Click Configure for the vCloud whose resources you wish to replicate.

Figure 35: Services summary page, “NCD-to-NCD Replication” section





Zerto's system opens in a new browser tab:

Figure 36: Zerto Virtual Replication UI as lunched from NCD

The Zerto UI enables you to:

Select NaviCloud Director vApps and VMs for replication.

Specify RPO and RTO values to apply.

Group your configuration into Virtual Protection Groups (VPG).

Review the status of BC/DR configuration.

Test, move, and fail-over your configuration.

Access Zerto documentation for reference and guidance on usage.

To access Zerto Virtual Replication online documentation, click in Zerto UI menu and select

“Help". Zerto launches its help file in a separate browser tab.

Figure 37: Accessing Zerto online helpfile




5.2. vApp / VM replication example

For example, here we protect an Andover vCloud’s vApp to the Charlotte vCloud.

From the Zerto UI, click New VPG; from the dialog select a vApp to be replicated, specify the

Recovery Site, vDC, and Service Profile – and click Save to submit. Zerto displays the initializing VPG

in the list for editing, testing, failover, etc.

Figure 38: VM replication example




6. Customer-to-NCD Replication

NaviCloud Director (NCD) integrates with the Zerto virtual replication system to enable hypervisor-based

replication between customer on-premise virtual environment (VE) and NCD environment. The

replication service works with both vCenter and vCloud Director VE.

6.1. On-premise to NCD replication overview

Establishing the customer premise replication service involves the following steps:

1. Request the Customer-to-NCD Replication service from within NCD account; specify

details of network to be dedicated.

2. Configure VPN connectivity between NCD and on-premise VEs.

3. Download the Zerto Virtual Manager (ZVM) installation software and register to on-

premise VE. Install and configure Zerto components in on-premise VE.

4. Configure (and adjust anytime) the desired VE replication parameters through Zerto's

intuitive UI.

By pairing and VPN-connecting the following two halves, you enable on-premise-to-NCD VE

replication:

The Zerto components and replication network that NaviSite establishes in NCD.

The Zerto components and replication network that you establish in the on-premise VE.

6.2. On-premise to NCD replication procedure

These subsections of the tutorial examines in closer detail the steps necessary to accomplish the

above summarized configuration.

6.2.1. Request the Customer-to-NCD replication service

To initiate the service request:

1. Click the left navigation pane's Services/NCD Services option.

2. From the NCD Services page expand the Customer-to-NCD Replication section. Review

the prerequisites necessary for the service.

3. Click Request access for the vCloud to which you wish to replicate:






Figure 39: Customer-to-NCD replication service request initiation

4. In the Request Access dialog, identify the following (this process is needed only once per

vCloud):

VPN vDC Network -- An Internet-connected vDC network through which replication

traffic will flow (via VPN). Note: To avoid conflicts with existing IPs or network

configurations, create a new network solely dedicated for use for the replication --

not otherwise employed prior to or subsequent to this configuration. This must be

an Org Network routed by your Org Edge Gateway; you will be connecting it via VPN

to the on-premise VE.

Upon receiving the access request, NaviSite configures the service in NCD employing an unused

IP in the network you provided:

NaviSite provisions a Virtual Replication Appliance (VRA) linked to the specified vCloud.

The Customer-to-NCD Replication section of the Services page displays in its table rows

the VPN vDC Network to indicate completion of the NCD portion of replication setup.





6.2.2. Configure VPN between NCD and on-premise VEs

Create VPN connectivity between NCD and on-premise edge gateways. The VPN must provide

access between NCD and on-premise networks dedicated for use in Zerto replication. Refer to

VMware's vCD documentation "Create a VPN Tunnel to a Remote Network" for details.

With respect to required firewall rules that must be set up for the VPN:

9081-10000 must be open to NCD Org Network.

4007, 4008, 9081 must be open to on-premise Zerto Replication Network.

6.2.3. Download, install, configure Zerto for on-premise VE

Click to download the ZVM package for on-premise installation. The ZVM installation package

is an approximately 350MB download file. Register the ZVM with on-premise VMware vCenter

and/or vCloud Director systems.

Within on-premise VE, complete the necessary Zerto installations and component configuration

and related networking tasks -- refer to Zerto Virtual Replication Installation Guide for

details. (Includes architectural diagrams.)

Figure 40: “Zerto Virtual Replication Installation Guide” TOC, example


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http://207.211.242.76/Zerto_3.5u4_k43___fd667f71e88e5ee27793637e64ed8d83.zip

http://207.211.242.76/Zerto_Virtual_Replication_Installation.pdf



A high level summary of the tasks:

Install ZVM ("...perform an express install...").

Perform initial configuration: Register the ZVM with on-premise VMware vCloud and/or

vCloud Director systems. The ZVM installation requests either a license key or

connection to a cloud service provider; select Start by pairing to a site with a license,

and specify the IP address of NCD replication network. That enables use of the

established NCD Zerto license.

In ZVM, access Zerto's How To Guide (shown by default upon startup and also

available ad hoc through a gear icon) -- to examine step-by-step instructions for installing

VRAs and setting up replication protection through Virtual Protection Groups (VPGs):

Deploy VRAs (Virtual Replication Appliance) from ZVM -- Through the VRAs tab of the

ZVM UI, deploy VRAs onto each host that has VMs to be replicated.

Set up replication protection through VPGs -- see section 6.2.4 below.

6.2.4. Configure replication parameters with Zerto UI

Once the NCD Zerto components, NCD-to-customer-premise VPN, and on-premise Zerto

components are in place, access the VPGs tab of the ZVM UI to set up Virtual Protection Groups

(VPGs). VPGs define the replication you wish to occur, at the desired intervals, specifying just

which elements of the on-premise VE are to be protected. You create VPGs, test replication,

moves, failover, etc. with the controls provided through the ZVM UI.

To access Zerto Virtual Replication online documentation, click in Zerto UI menu and select

“Help". Zerto launches its help file in a separate browser tab.

Figure 41: Accessing Zerto online helpfile




7. NCD Billing Information

The Admin NCD Billing page provides summary and detail views of the elements and usage that make

up your NaviCloud Director billing.

The billing page presents resource usage costs as points, a standard cost unit. Points are converted to a

currency charge on your monthly invoice according to the terms of your contract. NCD assigns points

for purposes of aggregation and consolidation, tracks the usage of each resource independently, and

aggregates that into a point total for the individual VM, vApp, or other construct.

These values can be added up to determine the cost of the VM per hour or per month. NCD performs

such calculations automatically and displays them on the individual VM detail pages with a cost for

when the VM is running (all resources) or when it is powered off (just the disk). These values roll up to

vApp screens as well.

7.1. Billing Overview

The overview screen displays billing total data for the current and preceding months.

The Table/Chart control enables you to toggle between tabular and bar chart presentations of the

billing data. The chart view provides an additional display of projected billing for the current month,

based on extrapolating from existing monthly charges.

Figure 42: Admin NCD Billing overview page – table and chart views





7.2. Billing Detail Drill-down

To see a drill-down of a month's costs, you can click a billing period link in the table view or the

equivalent monthly bar in the chart display.

(From the table view, click a month's "Download complete data" link for a CSV dump of all billing

data for that month for offline analysis.)

When you click a month, the "vDataCenter Summary" page appears, showing cost per vDataCenter

for the selected month.




Figure 43: Billing month detail page




Clicking on a vDataCenter brings up the "vDataCenter Detail" page, showing a breakdown of vApps

and their CPU, Memory, Storage, Replication, Networking, and "Other" (e.g. Red Hat licensing) costs.

Figure 44: Billing vDC detail page

Clicking on a vApp will further drill down to "vApp Detail" and show similar data for the vApp's

constituent VMs.




Pie Charts: In all of these pages, a pie chart indicates the share of billing taken up by constituent

vDataCenters, vApps or VMs. Click pie slices or their associated labels to drill down further, if

applicable.

Billing data for the child vApps/VMs are displayed in billing points. To see actual usage numbers and

the point cost calculation, click the "info" icon next to point values in the data tables.

Figure 45: Billing point cost calculation context help bubble

Networking-related charges (public IPs and outgoing bandwidth) are only collected and displayed at

the vDataCenter level and cannot be broken down any further.

A dedicated section of the display details any applicable Customer-to-NCD Replication charges.




7.3. Rate Card

On any Billing page, click View Rate Card to examine the rates used to calculate billing for the

month. The rate card shows billing data for the following resources: CPU, memory, storage, public

IPs, outgoing bandwidth, Red Hat licensing, backup, and replication.

The Rate Card indicates the time periods and units for which resources are actually billed, but will

also display those rates multiplied/divided into hourly, daily, or monthly rates estimated costs for

easier comparison and planning. Click the Hourly/Daily/Monthly button to change the duration of

the estimate.

Figure 46: Billing rate card




7.4. Billing trends per object

In addition to the billing information available from the Admin NCD Billing screen, each vDataCenter,

vApp, and VM detail page in NaviCloud Director includes a "Billing" section, which displays a graph

of monthly billing data for that object over time. Dotted lines on the graphs represent not-yet-

finalized data for the current month.

Figure 47: NCD cloud object billing graph (vApp)




7.5. Billing alerts

Users with the administrator role can configure NaviCloud Director to alert users upon login about

the following customizable resource consumption circumstances:

If resource consumption exceeds or is projected to exceed a specified number of billing

points.

If resource consumption increases or is projected to increase over last month's by a specified

percentage.

Such billing alerts notify within the application and/or by email. You can apply alerts at the level of

the total monthly billing charge or at the level of charges for particular cloud objects (vDataCenter,

vApp, or VM).

Access the billing alert feature from the "Admin" section of the navigation menu: click NCD Alerts.

The "NCD Alerts" page displays a table of currently configured alerts, displaying alert values and

buttons enabling you to Disable/Enable and Delete alerts. To edit an alert's criteria, click the gear

icon associated with the alert in the display table.

Figure 48: Billing alerts summary page




To create a new alert click Create Alert; use the intuitive "Create Alert" form to define and submit

the alert.

Figure 49: Create billing alert dialog

NCD displays billing alerts upon user login and/or sends email alerts once daily -- according to value

of the resource consumption billing point threshold and the notification method specified for the

alert.

Figure 50: In-application billing alert display example




8. Managing Users in NCD

You add and manage NCD users from the Users page, which is listed under "Admin" in the navigation

menu. The Users page displays a table listing current users, their basic information, and links for

drilldown to detail pages that present additional user fields for review and input.

The Users table lists only LDAP users created through NaviCloud Director. It is recommended to

manage users only through NaviCloud Director.

"Local" users created through vCD may still log in to NaviCloud Director and vCD, but will have access

only to the vCloud to which they were added -- and can be managed only from vCD.

Figure 51: Users summary page





8.1. Add User

From the Users page, click the Create User button to add a new user through an intuitive and help-

enabled dialog:

Figure 52: Create user dialog

7.1.1. User Roles

Administrator: If you configure a user to have the Role value of "Administrator", NCD permits

the user full access to all objects and configuration.

Standard User: If you configure a user to have the Role value of "Standard User", NCD permits

the user limited write access. Standard users cannot create or edit vDCs or users. Standard




users can alter vApps, vApp Networks, and VMs that they themselves create (i.e. own), and also

those configured as "shared." Standard users cannot alter vApps, vApp Networks, and VMs

owned by others unless the objects are configured as "shared." Standard users can change their

own passwords.

Read Only: If you configure a user to have the Role value of "Read Only", NCD permits the user

to log in and view many aspects of vApps and VMs, though not all networking details. In

addition, such users can obtain console access to VMs. Read-only users can also change their

own passwords.

8.2. Edit User

Click the Username link associated with a user row in the table name to bring up the user detail

page, which presents additional user information for review and update. From the "Edit User" form

you can update user information; then click the Edit User button to save changes.

Figure 53: Users detail page






You can click open the User History section from the detail page to see the recent or complete task

history associated with the user.

Figure 54: User history, Users detail page


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