Using a Script to Skip Manual Installation of Google Cloud Drivers

Before you prepare VMs for conversion to Google Cloud (GC), you can use a script to skip manual installation of GC drivers on Linux VMware virtual machines.

Before You Begin

Verify that the following modules are configured to be available during the boot process: virtio, virtio_ring, virtio_pci, virtio_net, virtio_scsi. Although commonly used Linux distributions (RHEL, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu) will have these virtio driver modules packaged, you should still ensure that they are configured to be available.

Procedure

1. Copy the Script. From the Commvault path on the Linux proxy:

   /opt/commvault/iDataAgent64/systemrecovery/bootimage/INITRD/
   

2. Copy the cvInjectDrivers.sh script to the following location on the source VM:

   /etc/commvault/
   

3. Run the following commands with the specified arguments and wait for the driver injection to complete:

   chmod +x cvInjectDrivers.sh
   
   ./cvInjectDrivers.sh / "virtio, virtio_ring, virtio_pci, virtio_scsi, virtio_net" /var/log/CVInjectDrivers.log 0 0 0 gcp
   

4. Verify the driver injection status by reviewing the logs:

   tail -500 /var/log/CVInjectDrivers.log
   

5. Run a full backup of the Linux VMWare VMs.

6. Perform a full replication on the GCP target.

7. Run a planned failover and then verify that the destination VM boots up.