Installation and Initial Setup of the Zerto Orchestrator
Install the Zerto Orchestrator in vCenter Server. Setting up the Zerto Orchestrator is done within Jenkins in a browser.
To install Zerto Orchestrator:
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Download the zerto_orchestrator zip and extract the contents. |
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Deploy the zerto_orchestrator OVF, zerto_orchestrator.ovf, in vCenter Server, using the defaults. |
The zerto_orchestrator virtual machine is a Linux machine, created using DHCP, with VMTools installed.
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In the vSphere Web Client or Client console, check the IP address of the zerto_orchestrator virtual machine in the Summary tab. |
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If you want to change this IP to a static IP, log in to the virtual machine with the root user using zerto as the password, and change the networking configuration by editing the /etc/network/interfaces file, for example by setting up eth0, the first network interface card, with the IP address 192.168.1.5 and the gateway to 192.168.1.254: |
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.5
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.254
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You can also change the password, using the passwd command in the root directory.
To set up Zerto Orchestrator:
A browser window similar to the following is displayed.
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Optionally, configure security settings to Jenkins. |
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Choose Manage Jenkins > Configure Global Security. |
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Check Enable security and specify any security settings you want. |
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Optionally, configure access settings to Jenkins. |
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Set up access credentials. The default password is zerto. |
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Verify that the time is correct. The time is displayed in the browser status bar and is updated whenever you refresh the page. This time is synchronized with the ESXi host under which the zerto_orchestrator virtual machine is deployed using EST as the default timezone. |
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You can change the time by logging in to the zerto_orchestrator virtual machine and altering the /etc/timezone file and then rebooting the virtual machine. |