# Configuring Backups for a VMware Cloud Director Hypervisor

You can configure a VMware Cloud Director hypervisor to protect all the VMs hosted or managed in your VMware Cloud Director deployment. If you have multiple VMware Cloud Director deployments, create a virtualization client for each deployment. A VMware Cloud Director deployment can include one or more vCenters.

## Before You Begin

- Identify a VMware Cloud Director user account with required privileges. For more information, see Permissions for VMware Cloud Director User Accounts.

- Install the Virtual Server Agent on at least one machine to create a VSA access node. The following operating systems are supported:

  - Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Editions

  - Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Editions

- You can deploy a Linux machine as a Virtual Server Agent access node for VMware Cloud Director. See Configuring a Linux Access Node for VMware Cloud Director.

## Start the Configuration Wizard

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

   The Overview page appears.

2. In the upper-right area of the page, click Add hypervisor.

   The Configure Hypervisor page appears.

3. Click VMware Cloud Director.

4. Click Next.

   The Add Hypervisor page of the configuration wizard appears.

## Add Hypervisor

To create a hypervisor for tenant organization in VMware Cloud Director, see Self-Service Backup and Restore for VMware Cloud Director Tenants.

1. For Host name, type a fully qualified hostname or IP address for the hypervisor.

2. For Hypervisor name, type a name for the hypervisor.

3. For Credential, select existing credentials or create new credentials.

   Steps to create credentials

   1. Click the add button .

      The Add credential dialog box appears.

   2. For Credential Vault, select the credential vault to save the credentials in.

   3. In Credential name, enter a descriptive name for the credentials.

   4. In User account, enter the name of the user account that has permissions to do the following:

      - Access the vCloud and virtual machines—as well as the volumes, files, and folders within virtual machines

      - Obtain the account credentials or get access to saved credentials

      - Perform discovery, backup, and restore operations

   5. In Password, enter the password for the user account.

      Verify that the vCloud password for the hypervisor does not contain any of the following special characters or any non-ASCII characters: ampersand (&), semicolon (;), double quotation mark ("), single quotation mark ('), caret (^), backslash (\), percentage sign (%), left angle bracket (<), right angle bracket (>).

   6. In Description, enter a description of the credentials.

   7. Click Save.

   Note

   Commvault uses simple authentication method to establish connection with the vCloud hypervisor. The user account name and password that you specify are passed directly to the vCloud hypervisor for validation.

4. Select or deploy an access node.

   The VM or server that you use as an access node must meet the requirements. To deploy a Linux access node for VMware Cloud Director using the Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) template, see Configuring a Linux Access Node for VMware Cloud Director.

5. Click Next.

   Note

   - The Commvault software verifies whether the vCenter has a proper SSL certificate. If the certificate is not configured or not valid, an alert is displayed and the Skip SSL/TLS certificate verification toggle appears. To skip the SSL certificate validation, move the toggle to the right.

   - If a Linux access node is used, then the SSL certificate validation fails intermittently if the certificate provider is not trusted by the Linux OS certificate store.

     To resolve the validation error, download the certificate and manually add it to the certificate bundle at `/etc/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt` and sync the Mono's certificate bundle using `cert-sync /etc/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt`.

   The Associate vCenter account for backup section of the configuration wizard appears. The Excluded vCenters lists the vCenter hypervisors that you exclude.

6. In the row for the vCenter hypervisor, click the action button , and then click Edit.

   The Edit vCenter credentials dialog box appears.

7. For Credential, select existing credentials or create new credentials.

8. Click Next.

   Note

   The Commvault software verifies whether the vCenter has a proper SSL certificate. If the certificate is not configured or not valid, an alert is displayed and the Skip SSL/TLS certificate verification toggle appears. To skip the SSL certificate validation, move the toggle to the right.

   The Add VM Group page of the configuration wizard appears.

## Add VM Group

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

2. To define rules to discover virtual machines automatically:

   1. Click Add, and then select Rule.

      The Add Rule dialog box appears.

   2. From the list, select the type of rule to create, and then specify the rule:

      - Browse: Select specific VMs. (Selecting this option changes the Add rule dialog box to the Add content dialog box.)

      - Catalog: Enter the name of a vApp catalog.

      - Guest OS: Select VMs based on operating system. For example, to select VMs that are not Windows, enter Guest OS | Does not contain | Windows.

      - Metadata: Enter the name of the Metadata tag. Select the metadata tag Value type (Date and Time, Number, Text or Yes/No), and then enter the Value accordingly.

      - Organization: Enter the name of an organization.

      - Power state: Select VMs based on a power status of On, Off, or Other. (Other includes statuses such as Suspended).

      - Storage policy: Enter the name of a storage policy to select VMs that use the specified storage policy.

      - vApp: Enter the name of a vApp.

      - vAppTemplate: Enter the name of a vApp template.

      - VDC: Enter the name of a Virtual Data Center (VDC).

      - Virtual machine name or pattern: Enter the display name of the virtual machine or a pattern using wildcards (for example, Test* to identify VMs for which the VM name begins with "Test").

   3. Click Save.

3. To select VMs in other ways, do the following:

   1. Click Add, and then select Content.

      The Add content dialog box appears.

   2. In the Browse and select VMs list, Organizations is selected by default.

   3. Select the VMs to add to the VM group.

   4. Click Save.

4. To see a list of the VMs that are selected for backup based on your current selections, click Preview.

   The Preview page appears.

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

6. Click Next.

   The Summary page of the configuration wizard appears.

## Summary

1. Review the summary.

2. Click Finish.

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