Installing IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management on VMware

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To install IBM® Storage Defender Copy Data Management, deploy an OVF template. This creates a virtual appliance containing the application on a VMware ESXi server. To run IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management, access the newly created virtual machine.

Procedure

To deploy IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management as a virtual appliance on VMware, complete the following steps:
  1. Use the vSphere Client to deploy IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management. Go to Development > Actions menu, choose Deploy OVF Template. The Deploy OVF template window opens.
  2. Enter the URL for the IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management OVA template file or specify the location of the OVA template file and select it. Click Next.
  3. Provide a name for the virtual machine in the Virtual machine name field and select a folder to contain the virtual machine. Click Next.
  4. Identify the compute resource to be used by the virtual machine. Select the destination compute resource and then click Next.
  5. Review the advanced configuration details.

    When deploying IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management in a VMware vCenter 7.0 environment or later, you might receive a warning stating that the certificate is not trusted. The certificate that is supplied with IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management is valid. Click Ignore to close the warning in the vCenter OVA UI wizard when you deploy IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management.

    If you prefer that your VMware vCenter fully validate the OVA certificate, download the chain and certificate authority (CA) certificates used for the signing of the OVA and install these in the vCenter. You must extract the chain and root certificates directly from DigiCert. The DigiCert Assured ID Root CA certificate and the DigiCert SHA2 Extended Validation Server CA certificate can be used to validate the OVA code signed image. Download the DigiCert Assured ID Root CA certificate at https://cacerts.digicert.com/DigiCertAssuredIDRootCA.crt.pem and the DigiCert SHA2 Extended Validation Server CA certificate at https://cacerts.digicert.com/DigiCertSHA2ExtendedValidationServerCA.crt.pem.

    1. Download each certificate in Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM) format.
    2. Log in to the vCenter using the VMware administrator account.
    3. Navigate to Administration > Certificate Management.
    4. Locate Trusted Root Certificates and click the Add link to add the two downloaded certificates.

    After the two certificates are added, you can import the OVA without having to click the ignore link in the UI.

    Click Next.

  6. Read and accept the End User License Agreement. Select I accept all license agreements if you agree and then click Next.
  7. Select the storage location for the configuration and disk files. When prompted to select storage, select from datastores already configured on the destination host. The virtual machine configuration file and virtual disk files are stored on the datastore. Select a datastore large enough to accommodate the virtual machine and all of its virtual disk files. Select a disk format to store the virtual disks. It is recommended that you select thick provisioning, which is preselected for optimized performance. Thin provisioning requires less disk space, but may impact performance. Click Next.
  8. Select networks for the deployed template to use. Several available networks on the ESXi server may be available by clicking Destination Networks. Select a destination network that allows you to define the appropriate IP address allocation for the virtual machine deployment. Click Next.
  9. Enter network properties for the virtual machine. Enter the hostname in the Hostname field. If no hostname is supplied, localhost is used. Enter network information in Default Gateway, DNS, Network IP address, and Network Prefix. Leave fields blank to retrieve settings from a DHCP server. The virtual machine needs access to a DHCP server available on the configured destination network. Click Next.
  10. Review your template selections. Click Finish to exit the wizard and to start deployment of the OVF template. Deployment may take several minutes.
  11. After the template deployment completes, power on your newly created virtual machine. The virtual machine must remain powered on for the IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management application to be accessible.
  12. Make a note of the hostname or IP address of the newly created virtual machine. This is needed to log on to the application. Find the hostname or IP address in vSphere Client by clicking your newly created virtual machine and looking in the Summary tab.
    Note: You must allow several minutes for to initialize completely.

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