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Veritas™ Resiliency Platform 2.2 Deployment Guide

Last Published: 2017-04-07

Product(s): Resiliency Platform & CloudMobility (2.2)

About adding host assets

You add several types of assets as hosts to Veritas Resiliency Platform for discovery and monitoring by an Infrastructure Management Server (IMS). Host assets that you add can include physical systems, virtual machines, and discovery hosts, depending on the use case, as described in the table. Ensure that you add a host for discovery only once.

Table: Use cases for adding host assets

Use case	Details
Application discovery and management	For discovery of supported applications on either physical systems or virtual machines, you must add the physical system or virtual machine as a host. Note: For the use case of discovering and managing virtual machines rather than applications, you do not need to add the virtual machines as hosts. For discovery of a custom application, after you add the hosts, you must also add the application on the Assets page. More information is available on adding custom applications. See Veritas Resiliency Platform Solutions for Applications.
VMware vCenter Server discovery (optional)	You can add a host to be used by the IMS for discovery of a VMware vCenter Server. See About adding a host for discovery of VMware servers.
Hardware replication	For storage array-based replication, you may need to install array-specific software on a host and add the host as a discovery host. See About the discovery host for enclosures. More information is available on requirements for adding enclosures for array-based replication. See Managing enclosure assets.

Use case

Details

Application discovery and management

For discovery of supported applications on either physical systems or virtual machines, you must add the physical system or virtual machine as a host.

Note:

For the use case of discovering and managing virtual machines rather than applications, you do not need to add the virtual machines as hosts.

For discovery of a custom application, after you add the hosts, you must also add the application on the Assets page.

More information is available on adding custom applications.

See Veritas Resiliency Platform Solutions for Applications.

VMware vCenter Server discovery (optional)

You can add a host to be used by the IMS for discovery of a VMware vCenter Server.

See About adding a host for discovery of VMware servers.

Hardware replication

For storage array-based replication, you may need to install array-specific software on a host and add the host as a discovery host.

See About the discovery host for enclosures.

More information is available on requirements for adding enclosures for array-based replication.

See Managing enclosure assets.

When you add hosts to Resiliency Platform, the IMS installs the host package (VRTSsfmh) on the host. On Linux hosts, the VRTSsfmh package is installed in the /opt directory. On Windows hosts, the VRTSsfmh package is installed in the system drive.

The IMS also installs several add-on packages on the host for use by the IMS for discovery:

Veritas Resiliency Platform Enablement add-on
Applications Enablement add-on

Before you add hosts, ensure that all prerequisites are met.

See Prerequisites for adding hosts .