Deploying the OVA template

  1. Log in to your Cyber Protection account.

  2. Click Devices > All devices > Add > Red Hat Virtualization (oVirt).

    The .zip archive is downloaded to your machine.

  3. Unpack the .zip archive. It contains one .ova file.

  4. Upload the .ova file to a host in the Red Hat Virtualization/oVirt data center that you want to protect.

  5. Log in to Red Hat Virtualization/oVirt Administration Portal as an administrator. For more information about the roles required for operations with virtual machines, refer to Agent for oVirt – required roles and ports.

  6. From the navigation menu, select Compute > Virtual machines.

  7. Click the vertical ellipsis icon above the main table, and then click Import.

  8. In the Import Virtual Machine(s) window, do the following: 

    1. In Data center, select the data center that you want to protect.

    2. In Source, select Virtual Appliance (OVA).

    3. In Host, select the host on which you uploaded the .ova file.

    4. In File Path, specify the path to the directory that contains the .ova file.

    5. Click Load.

      The oVirt virtual appliance template from the .ova file appears in the Virtual Machines on Source panel.

      If the template does not appear in this panel, ensure that you have specified the correct path to the file, the file is not damaged, and the host can be reached.

    6. In Virtual Machines on Source, select the oVirt virtual appliance template, and then click the right arrow.
      The template appears in the Virtual machines to import panel.

    7. Click Next.

  9. In the new window, click the appliance name, and then configure the following settings:

    • On the Network interfaces tab, configure the network interfaces.

    • On the General tab, change the default name of the virtual machine with the agent.

The deployment is now complete. Next, you have to configure the virtual appliance. For more information on how to configure it, refer to Configuring the virtual appliance.

If you need more than one virtual appliance in your data center, repeat the steps above and deploy additional virtual appliances. Do not clone an existing virtual appliance by using the Clone VM option in Red Hat Virtualization/oVirt Administration Portal.

To exclude the virtual appliance from dynamic group backups, you must also exclude it from the list of virtual machines in the Cyber Protection service console. To exclude it, in Red Hat Virtualization/oVirt Administration Portal, select the virtual machine with the agent, and then assign the tag acronis_virtual_appliance to it.