Dell EMC Avamar for VMware 19.7 User Guide

Deploy the vProxy OVA on a vCenter server in VMware Cloud on AWS

Perform the following steps to deploy the OVA for the Avamar proxy appliance from a vCenter server by using the HTML5 vSphere Web Client.

1. Log in to the HTML5 vSphere Web Client with the cloudadmin account credentials.
2. Click Menu > Hosts and Clusters.
3. In the inventory pane, expand the vCenter, and then expand the compute resource pool inside the SDDC cluster.
4. Right-click the resource pool where you want to deploy the OVA, and then select Deploy OVF template.
5. In the Select an OVF template window, type a URL path to the OVA package, or click Choose Files and navigate to the OVA package location, and then click Next.
6. On the Select a name and folder window:
   1. Specify a name for the virtual appliance.
   2. Specify the inventory location.
   3. Click Next.
7. In the Select a compute resource window, select the vApp or resource pool where you want to deploy the OVA, and then click Next.
8. In the Review details window, review the product details, such as the product name, version, vendor, publisher, and download size, and then click Next.
9. In the Select storage window, select the disk format and the destination datastore where the virtual appliance files will be stored, and then click Next.
   To ensure that the amount of storage space that is allocated to the virtual appliance is available, select Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed.
10. In the Select networks window, select the Destination Network:
    1. Specify the IP address
    2. Click Next.
11. In the Customize Template window, expand Networking properties:
    1. In the Network IP address field, type the IP address for the Avamar proxy.
    2. In the Network Netmask/Prefix field, specify the netmask for an IPv4 Network IP address.
    3. In the DNS field, type the IP address of the DNS servers, separated by commas.
    4. In the NTP field, type the IP address of the gateway host.
    5. In the Default gateway field, type the IP address of the gateway host.
12. Click Next.
    The Ready to Complete window appears.
13. In the Ready to Complete window, review the deployment configuration details, and then click Finish.