Configure vCloud Director Integration

RabbitMQ And OnApp Control Panel Connection

OnApp vCD integration requires the use of RabbitMQ to keep vCD and OnApp synchronised. If you plan using the RabbitMQ server installed by OnApp by default, there is no need for additional configuration in OnApp Control Panel. Though, it is required that you edit the AMQP settings in vCD.

To specify RabbitMQ settings in vCD:

1. Go to your OnApp Control Panel server.
2. Open the /onapp/interface/config/on_app.yml file.
3. Find the RabbitMQ parameters:
   • rabbitmq_login
   • rabbitmq_password
   • rabbitmq_vhost
   • rabbitmq_host - make sure it is reachable by vCloud Director
4. Edit your AMQP settings in vCD with the RabbitMQ details found at step 3:
   1. Navigate to the Administration tab of your System Organization, expand System Settings and select Extensibility.
   2. Click Enable Notifications.
   3. Add the details from OnApp.
   4. Set Exchange vcloud.

If you are running your own RabbitMQ server, it is required that you add the RabbitMQ details through the OnApp Control Panel.

To specify RabbitMQ settings in OnApp Control Panel:

If you want to use a separate RabbitMQ instance for vCloud Director, specify the following vCloud Director RabbitMQ parameters in the /onapp/configuration/rabbit_mq/vcloud/credentials.yml file:

• :host: - RabbitMQ server IP address
• :port: - RabbitMQ port
• :vhost: - the name of the "virtual host" (or vhost) that specifies the namespace for entities (exchanges and queues) referred to by the protocol. Note that this is not virtual hosting in the HTTP sense.
• :user: - RabbitMQ login
• :password: - RabbitMQ password

If you want to use the same Rabbit MQ instance both for vCloud Director and OnApp engine:

1. Go to your Control Panel's Settings menu, and click the Configuration icon.

2. Click the System tab to change the following application settings:
   RabbitMQ

   • Host - RabbitMQ server IP address

   • Virtual Host - the name of the "virtual host" (or vhost) that specifies the namespace for entities (exchanges and queues) referred to by the protocol. Note that this is not virtual hosting in the HTTP sense.

   • Login - RabbitMQ login
   • Password - RabbitMQ password

Import of vCloud Director resources into OnApp

Before you start

• Your vCD should be v8.0 or later

• vCD public addresses should be configured properly

• Make sure your OnApp cloud admin has Read any vApps and Read own vApps permissions before the import
  

• Ensure you have a user with vApp author role created on the vCloud Director with your valid email. (Go to vCD Console > OnApp tab > Administration and right click your user)

• All vCD users should have a valid email, or else they won’t be imported

• Currently fast-provisioned virtual datacenters are not supported for vApp provisioning

• vCD users should be assigned one of the default vCloud Director roles. Users with custom roles are not imported into OnApp.

• vApps and vApp Templates that have “system” owner won’t be imported   

• VSs currently cannot be connected to network during provisioning

• VS passwords are not imported into OnApp

• vCloud Director system admins are not imported into OnApp and all management tasks are performed via the vCloud Director web interface.

• vCloud Director compute resource passwords are encrypted by default.

Import

To import your vCloud Director resources into OnApp:

1. Log in to OnApp CP as an administrator.

2. Set Rabbit MQ credentials for the OnApp CP and your vCloud Director.

3. Create a compute zone in which the vCloud Director compute resource will reside.

   To create a compute zone:

   1. Go to your Control Panel's Settings menu and click the Compute Zones icon.
   2. Press "+" or click the Add New Compute Zone button.
   3. On the screen that follows:
      
      1. Label - give your compute zone a name
      2. Server type - select a type for your zone. For vCloud Director compute zones select the Virtual Private Cloud type.
      3. Location group - select the location group to which this Compute zone will be assigned

      4. Failover timeout - set the time period for which the iterations will run during the failover if the compute resource does not respond

   4.  Click the Save button.

   
   

4. Create a compute resource of a vcloud type and specify vCloud Director global system admin credentials and API URL of your vCloud Director. 

   To create a compute resource:

   1. Go to your Control Panel Settings menu.
   2. Click the Compute Resources icon.
   3. Press "+" button or click the Add New Compute Resource button underneath the list of compute resources on the screen.
   4. On the screen that appears:
      
      
      • Label - enter a compute resource name.
      • Compute resource type - choose a compute resource type. Select vcloud.
      • Compute zone - select the compute zone you added on Step 3.
      • Login - specify the vCloud Director system admin login

      • Password - specify the vCloud Director system admin password

      • API URL - set the vCloud Director API URL - e.g. https://example.com

      • AMQP Exchange Name - specify your vCloud Director AMQP exchange name (this can be taken in your vCloud Director instance Extensibility > Settings > Exchange )

   5. Click the Save button. The compute resource will be added to the system and the import will start automatically.

    

5. The import will start automatically. After the transaction is successfully completed, all your vCloud Director resources will be shown in OnApp. You can view log output of transaction Import vCloud to Control Panel for more import details.