Appendix B: Deploying a HYCU backup controller

If you are employing HYCU Protégé, you can use the HYCU for Google Cloud web user interface to deploy a HYCU backup controller instance to Google Cloud in the event of a disaster in the on-premises data protection environment.

For details on the supported on-premises infrastructures and how to employ HYCU Protégé, see HYCU for Enterprise Clouds documentation.

Prerequisites

  • You must own the HYCU and HYCU Protégé licenses. For details on how to obtain these licenses, see HYCU for Enterprise Clouds documentation.
  • You must have the Administrator role assigned.

  • The Compute Engine default service account must be enabled for the project to which you plan to deploy the HYCU backup controller.

Considerations

  • The recommended requirements for the HYCU backup controller are 8 vCPU cores and 8 GiB of memory.
  • Each HYCU backup controller is by default deployed with the system disk size of 10 GiB and the data disk size of 32 GiB.

To access the HYCU Controller Deployment dialog box, click  Administration on the toolbar, and then select HYCU Controller Deployment.

Procedure

  1. From the Subscription — billing account drop-down menu, select the Google subscription that is connected with HYCU for Google Cloud and to which you want to deploy the HYCU backup controller.

  2. From the Project drop-down menu, select the project to which you want to deploy the HYCU backup controller.

  3. From the Region drop-down menu, select the geographic region for the HYCU backup controller.

    i Important  Make sure that at least one virtual network is configured in the selected region.

  4. From the Zone drop-down box, select the zone for the HYCU backup controller.

  5. Click Next.

  6. In the Instance name field, enter a name for the HYCU backup controller.

  7. In the vCPU cores field, enter the number of virtual CPUs to be assigned to the HYCU backup controller multiplied by the number of cores per virtual CPU. The value that you specify must be a whole number and cannot be higher than 1024.

  8. In the Memory field, enter the amount of memory (in GiB) to be assigned to the HYCU backup controller. The value that you specify must be a whole number and cannot be higher than 4096.

  9. From the Instance type drop-down menu, select the instance type.

    n Note  The list of available instance types is based on the number of virtual CPU cores and the amount of memory that you specified. If no instance type exactly corresponds to the specified values, the list is empty and you need to adjust the values in the vCPU and Memory fields.

  10. Under Network interface, you can view the network interface that will be added to the HYCU backup controller. By default, this is the first network interface from the region/zone that you selected for the HYCU backup controller.

    If you want to modify network settings, you can add an additional network interface, edit an existing network interface, or delete a network interface:

    To modify a network interface:

    • Click Add network interface to add a network interface or click  Edit next to the network interface that you want to edit, and then follow these steps:

      1. Only if you are adding a network interface. From the Target networks drop-down menu, select the target network.

        n Note  The list of available target networks includes only the ones within the region you selected for the HYCU backup controller.

      2. In the External address type field, select the external IP address for the network interface. You can select among the following options:

        Option Description
        None

        The network interface does not use an external IP address.

        This option is preselected if the network interface of the original instance did not use an external IP address.
        Ephemeral

        The network interface uses an automatically allocated external IP address.

        This option is preselected if the network interface of the original instance used an external IP address.
        Static (Reserved) The network interface uses a static external IP address that was reserved in Google Compute Engine in advance.
        Static
        (New)        		 The network interface uses a static external IP address that is allocated at the time of the deployment. If the allocation fails, the instance is assigned a temporary external IP address. Such a fallback also sets the deployment task status to Done with errors.

      3. In the Internal address type field, select the internal IP address for the network interface. You can select between the following options:

        Option Description
        Ephemeral (Automatic)

        The network interface uses an automatically allocated internal IP address.

        This option is selected by default for the preselected network interfaces.
        Ephemeral (Custom)

        The network interface uses an internal IP address that is defined by you.

        i Important  Use of this option might result in IP address conflicts.
        Static (Reserved) Not available for legacy networks. The network interface uses a static internal IP address that was reserved in Google Compute Engine in advance.
        Static
        (New)

        Not available for legacy networks. The network interface uses a new static internal IP address that is defined by you.

        n Note  Allocation of the IP address in Google Compute Engine is performed at the very beginning of the deployment. If the allocation fails, the deployment task is terminated without being logged.

      4. Click Add or Save.

    • Click  Delete next to the network interface that you want to delete. Keep in mind that you cannot deploy the HYCU backup controller without a network interface.

  11. Click Next.
  12. From the Available versions drop-down menu, select the version of the HYCU backup controller. By default, the latest version is selected.
  13. Click Deploy.

Accessing the HYCU web user interface

After you deploy the HYCU backup controller, you must configure a port in Google Cloud to be able to access the HYCU web user interface.

Procedure

Create an inbound security rule to allow traffic. Specify the following settings:

  • Source port ranges: 0.0.0.0/0 (to allow any source port)

  • Destination port ranges: 8443

For instructions, see Google Cloud documentation.

You can access the HYCU web user interface by entering the following URL:

https://<HYCUBackupControllerPublicIPAddress>:8443

On the logon page, enter your logon name and password. You can use the default user name and password for initial access:

User name: admin
Password: admin

i Important   For security purposes, it is highly recommended that you change the default password.