Configure TrilioVault VM

The TrilioVault Appliance requires configuration to work with the chosen RHV environment. A Web-UI provides access to the TrilioVault Appliance dashboard and configurator.

Accessing the TrilioVault Dashboard

Enter the TrilioVault IP or FQDN into the browser to reach the TrilioVault Appliance landing page.

User: admin Password: password

Details needed for the TrilioVault Appliance configurator

Upon login into the TrilioVault Appliance, the shown page is the configurator. The configurator requires some information about the TrilioVault Appliance, RHV and Backup Storage.

TrilioVault Nodes information

The TrilioVault Appliance needs to be integrated into an existing environment to be able to operate correctly. This block asks for information about the TrilioVault Appliance operating details.

• Virtual IP Address

  • The TrilioVault Appliance uses this IP address for all communication with RHV.

  • Format: IP/Netmask

  • Example: 10.10.0.2/24

• TVM Appliance IP

  • The first interface in the interface list of the TrilioVault Appliance will get this IP address assigned. Further is the TrilioVault Appliance hostname set.

  • Format: IP=hostname

  • Example: 10.10.0.1=rhv-tvm

• Name Servers

  • The DNS server the TrilioVault appliance will use.

  • Format: Comma separated list of IPs

  • Example: 8.8.8.8,10.10.10.10

• Domain Search Order

  • The domain the TrilioVault Appliance will use.

  • Format: Comma separated list of domain names

  • Example: trilio.demo,trilio.io

• NTP Servers

  • NTP Servers the TrilioVault Appliance will use.

  • Format: Comma separated list of NTP Servers (FQDN and IP supported)

  • Example: 0.pool.ntp.org,10.10.10.10

• Timezone

  • Timezone the TrilioVault will use.

  • Format: predefined list

  • Example: UTC

RHV Credentials information

The TrilioVault appliance integrates with one RHV environment. This block asks for the information required to access and connect with the RHV Cluster.

• RHV Engine URL

  • URL of the RHV-Manager used to authenticate

  • Format: URL (FQDN and IP supported)

  • Example: https://rhv-manager.trilio.demo

• RHV Username

  • admin-user to authenticate against the RHV-Manager

  • Format: user@domain

  • Example: admin@internal

• Password

  • The password to validate the RHV Username against the RHV-Manager

  • Format: String

  • Example: password

Backup Storage Configuration information

This block asks for the necessary details to configure the Backup Storage.

• Backup Storage

  • NFS or S3

In the case of NFS

• NFS Export

  • Full path to the NFS Volume used as Backup Storage

  • Format: Comma separated list of NFS paths

  • Example: 10.10.100.20:/rhv_backup

• NFS Options

  • Options used by the TrilioVault NFS client to connect to the NFS Volume

  • Format: NFS Options

  • Example: nolock,soft,timeo=180,intr

  Note:- Make sure the NFS server supports the NFSv3 as Trilio Mounts the NFS share explicitly with NFSv3

In the case of S3

• Amazon or Ceph or Local Ceph

  • Amazon expects to connect to AWS services

  • Ceph allows connecting to any S3 bucket that is either not using SSL or a trusted SSL certificate

  • Local Ceph allows connecting to any S3 that is either not using SSL or a self-signed certificate

• [Ceph and Local Ceph only] Use SSL

  • Activate when the S3 endpoint is secured

• Access Key

  • Access Key necessary to login into the S3 storage

  • format: access key

  • example: SFHSAFHPFFSVVBSVBSZRF

• Secret Key

  • Secret Key necessary to login into the S3 storage

  • format: secret key

  • example: bfAEURFGHsnvd3435BdfeF

• Region

  • Configured Region for the S3 Bucket

    • use us-east-1 for Ceph and Local Ceph

  • format: String

  • example: us-east-1

• [Ceph and Local Ceph only] Endpoint URL

  • URL to be used to reach and access the provided S3 compatible storage

  • format: URL

  • example: https://objects.trilio.io

• Bucket Name

  • Name of the bucket to be used as Backup target

  • format: string

  • example: Trilio-backup

• [Local Ceph with active SSL only] Cert

  • Upload area for the certificate to be used when connecting with the S3 storage

  • format: certificate

TrilioVault Certificate information

TrilioVault is integrating into the RHV Cluster as an additional service, following the RHV communication paradigms. These require that the TrilioVault Appliance is using SSL and that the RHV-Manager does trust the TrilioVault Appliance.

TrilioVault offers to possibilities how these required certificates can be provided. Either TrilioVault generates a complete fresh self-signed certificate or a certificate is provided.

In both cases is the FQDN required, to which the certificate is pointing to.

Please see below example in case of a provided certificate.

• FQDN

  • FQDN to reach the TrilioVault Appliance

  • Format: FQDN

  • Example: rhv-tvm.trilio.demo

• Certificate

  • Certificate provided by the TrilioVault appliance upon request

  • Format: Certificate file

  • Example: rhv-tvm.crt

• Private Key

  • Private Key used to verify the provided certificate

  • Format: private key file

  • Example: rhv-tvm.key

TrilioVault License

It is possible to directly provide the TrilioVault Appliance with the license file that is going to be used by it.

It is not necessary to provide the License file directly through the configurator. It is also possible to provide the license afterwards through the TrilioVault License tab in the TrilioVault dashboard.

The TrilioVault License tab can also be used to verify and update the currently installed license.

Submit and Configuration

After filling out every block of the configurator, hit the submit button to start the configuration.

The configurator asks one more time for confirmation before starting.

While the configurator is running the live output from the ansible playbooks is shown. Some of the tasks can take multiple minutes until they are finished without an update to the output.

Wait until the configurator has either finished or failed.