Adding an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Hypervisor

You can add an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure hypervisor to support data protection operations for all instances hosted or managed by an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure region.

Before You Begin

• Install the Virtual Server Agent (VSA) on at least one Oracle Cloud Infrastructure instance. You can install the VSA on other machines to create additional VSA proxies. At least one VSA proxy is needed.

• Identify the Oracle Cloud Identifier (OCID) for the tenant and for the admin user for the hypervisor.

• Add required required permissions for the OCID tenant and user.

• Create a folder (called base_folder\certificates\external\ for Windows proxies, or called base_folder/certificates/external/ folder for Linux proxies) on the VSA proxy instance. Obtain the private key, password, and fingerprint for the private key, and then copy the private key to the newly created folder.

  For more information, see the following pages in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation:

  • How to Generate an API Signing Key

  • How to Get the Key's Fingerprint

Start the Configuration Wizard

1. From the Command Center navigation pane, go to Protect > Virtual machines.

   The Overview page appears.

2. Cick Add hypervisor.

   The Configure Hypervisor page appears.

3. For Select vendor, select Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

4. Click Next.

   The Configure Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Hypervisor wizard appears.

Configure IAM Permission

1. Click the Launch Oracle Cloud Stack Template link.

   The Create Stack page of the OCI website appears.

2. Select I have reviewed and accept the Oracle terms of use.

   The Resource Manager template creates an IAM user in the IAM group, and then creates and assigns an IAM policy to the group.

3. Verify that the Use custom Terraform providers check box is not selected.

4. For Name, enter a descriptive name for the stack.

5. From the Create in compartment list, select a compartment.

6. Click Next.

   The Configure Variables page appears.

7. For Compartment for creating policy, select the compartment to create the policy.

8. For Email address for User (CommvaultServiceAccount), enter an email address.

9. Optional: In the Tags section, add a tag to identify the backup gateway stack.

   For example, for Tag namespace, select None (add a free-form tag), for Tag key, enter Reference, and for Tag value, enter IAM stack.

10. Click Next.

    The Review page appears.

11. Click Create.

12. In the search bar at the top of the page, search for CommvaultServiceAccount.

13. On the API keys tab, click Add API key and then add the key.

14. Click the button with three dots, and then click View configuration file.

    The Configuration file preview appears.

15. Copy the User OCID, Fingerprint, and Tenancy OCID values, and then return to the Configure Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Hypervisor configuration wizard.

16. For Credential, select existing credentials or create a new credential.

    Steps to create a new credential.

    1. Click the add button .

       The Add credential dialog box appears.

    2. For Account type, select Cloud Account.

    3. For Vendor type, select Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

    4. For Credential Vault, select Built-In.

    5. For Credential name, enter a descriptive name for the credential.

    6. For Tenancy ocid, enter the OCID for the tenant.

    7. For User ocid, enter the OCID for the admin user for the hypervisor.

    8. For Fingerprint, enter the fingerprint for the private key.

    9. For Private key, click Upload and then browse for and select the private key file.

    10. For Private key's password, enter the password for the private key.

    11. Click Save.

17. Click Next.

    The Access Nodes page of the configuration wizard appears.

Access Nodes

1. From the Access node list, select a previously deployed proxy access node that is an OCI instance, or select Automatic. Or you can create a new access node.

   Steps to create a new access node

   1. Click the add button .

      The Add access node dialog box appears.

   2. For Platform, select the OS (Linux or Windows) for the access node.

   3. For Region, select the region where the access node is to be deployed.

   4. Click Oracle Cloud Resource Stack to create the access node.

   5. Click OK.

2. Click Next.

   The Add Hypervisor page of the configuration wizard appears.

Add Hypervisor

1. For Hypervisor name, enter a descriptive name for the hypervisor.

2. For Regions, do one of the following:

   • To enable all regions to be supported for the hypervisor, enter "Default".

   • To enable specific regions to be supported for the hypervisor, select the regions.

     Note

     For a list of supported regions, see "Regions and Availability Domains" in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation.

3. Click Next.

   The Add VM Group page of the configuration wizard appears.

Add VM Group

1. For Name, enter a descriptive name for the VM group.

2. For Content, select the VMs to include in the group.

3. Select the IntelliSnap toggle to enable IntelliSnap backups.

4. Click Next.

   The Select Plan page of the configuration wizard appears.

Plan

1. For Plan, select an existing backup plan or create a new backup plan.

   Steps to create a backup plan

   1. Click the add button .

      The Create backup plan dialog box appears.

   2. For Plan name, enter a descriptive name for the backup plan.

   3. For Storage, select or add the storage pool where you want to store backups.

   4. To configure backups, select Configure backups.

   5. Under Frequency, specify the frequency of the backup.

   6. Under Retention period, specify the duration for which the backup must be retained.

   7. To specify the additional retention, such as weekly full backups, select Add extended retention and then add rules.

   8. To add an additional storage copy, select Add second copy.

   9. From the Storage list, select or add the storage to use for the backups.

   10. Under Backups to copy, select the backup type.

   11. Under Retention period, enter the amount of time to retain the backups.

       To specify additional retention period, such as weekly full backups, select Add extended retention and then add rules.

   12. To add a third optional storage copy for maximum redundancy, select Add third copy, and then configure the storage, backup type and retention settings.

   13. To add snap, select Configure snapshots check box.

   14. Under Frequency, specify the time interval for the snapshots to be taken.

   15. Under Number of snapshots retained, specify the number of snaps to be retained.

   16. Click Save.

2. Click Next.

   The Summary page of the configuration wizard appears.