Deploying a HYCU backup controller

If you are employing HYCU Protégé, you can use the HYCU for Azure web user interface to deploy a HYCU backup controller virtual machine to Azure 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 own the HYCU and HYCU Protégé licenses. For details on how to obtain these licenses, see HYCU for Enterprise Clouds documentation.
  • You have the Administrator role assigned.

Consideration

Minimum requirements for the HYCU backup controller are 4 vCPU cores and 4 GiB of memory.

Procedure

  1. From the Resource group drop-down menu, select the resource group to which you want to deploy the HYCU backup controller.

  2. From the Location 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 resource group location.

  3. From the Availability Zone drop-down menu, select the zone for the HYCU backup controller.

    n Note  Keep in mind the following:

    • The selected geographic region determines to which zones you can deploy the HYCU backup controller. If you do not want to deploy the HYCU backup controller to any zone, select None.

    • If you select a zone, only static public IP addresses can be assigned to the network interface of your HYCU backup controller. For more information about public IP addresses, see Azure documentation.

  4. Click Next.
  5. In the VM name field, enter a name for the HYCU backup controller.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. From the Virtual machine type drop-down menu, select the virtual machine type.

    n Note  The list of available virtual machine types is based on the number of virtual CPU cores and the amount of memory that you specified. If no virtual machine type exactly corresponds to the specified values, the closest matches are shown.

  9. Under Network interfaces, 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 resource group that you selected for the HYCU backup controller. If required, you can also modify network settings.

  10. Click Deploy.

Accessing the HYCU web user interface

After you deploy the HYCU backup controller, you must perform the following tasks in Azure to be able to access the HYCU web user interface:

Task Instructions
  1. Configure a port.

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

  • Source port ranges: * (to allow any source port)
  • Destination port ranges: 8443

For instructions, see Azure documentation.

  1. Create a public IP address.
For instructions on how to create a public IP address, see Azure documentation.

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

https://<HYCUBackupControllerPublicIPAddress>:8443

You can also access the HYCU web user interface by providing a host name instead of a public IP address. In this case, you must configure an alias record to refer to the public IP address. For instructions on how to do this, see Azure documentation.

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

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