Hyper-V Virtual Appliance

A Hyper-V Virtual Appliance is a template that creates virtual machines instantly on Hyper-V virtual environment without manual VM creation or separate installation of the operating system or .

Download Hyper-V virtual appliance from the following link: Click here to Download Hyper-V virtual appliance.

The downloaded file will be in zip format. Unzipping the file will have the following:

• Vembu VMBackup Client build
• Virtual appliance template file (VHD)
• User Guide on How to deploy Hyper-V Virtual Appliance
• ReadMe file

Steps to Deploy Virtual Appliance on Hypervisor:

1. Open the Hyper-V Manager console.

2. Right-click the corresponding server under Hyper-V Manager.

3. Check whether VirtualApplianceBDR folder contains the 3 folders shown in the screenshot below.

4. Right click the Hyper-V host and select Import Virtual machine.
5. Select the folder containing VHD and XML files.

6. Select the VM ‘VirtualApplianceBDR’ to import and click Next.

7. Choose import type as appropriate.

8. Select the location of configuration files for the VM and proceed with Next.

9. Select storage location of the VHD files and click Next.

10. Verify the configurations provided via summary and click Finish to create VM.

11. Once the deployment is completed successfully, start the created virtual machine.

12. By default, once the machine is booted it logs in automatically. If the machine is locked use the below mentioned credentials:

Default User details:

Username:​ vembu

Password:​ password

Root password:​ password (sudo -s)

13. Open the terminal and verify whether the PostgreSQL and Vembu BDR services have started.

14. Open any web browser(FireFox or Chrome) and enter https://localhost:6061 to open Vembu BDR web console. Login with username password as admin/admin.

15. Select the required Time Zone settings for the machine and click Save to proceed.

16. Give a unique Vembu BDR ID, by default it takes the hostname and machine name as ID.

Note: The following characters are permitted as part of the  ID: [ A-Z][a-z][0-9][ - _ .] Your ID must not start or end with special characters and it must be between 1-50 characters in length.

17. Once  ID configuration is updated successfully, you will be prompted to configure the repository details to store the backup data, Choose the volume and click Update. Deployment of  on your Hyper-V server is completed successfully.

Limitations:

• KVM installation has some permission issues.
• Instant Boot is not supported.
• Virtual Appliance does not have a network adapter in default, you need to manually attach the network adapter/switch.