Introduction to the Hosted Private Cloud Control Panel

Learn about the management options available in the Hosted Private Cloud Control Panel.

The OVHcloud Hosted Private Cloud Control Panel enables you to easily manage your Hosted Private Cloud infrastructure.

Requirements

• a Hosted Private Cloud infrastructure
• access to the OVHcloud Control Panel

Instructions

Interface Access

Navigate to the OVHcloud Control Panel and log on with your administrative credentials.

Hosted Private Cloud View

From the OVHcloud Control Panel:

1. Select the Hosted Private Cloud tab.
2. In the left-hand navigation menu, under the VMware heading, select your service.
3. You can rename your infrastructure by clicking the pencil icon next to the name of your infrastructure.

General Information

The General Information tab gives you an overview of your services:

• The Description field is editable through the more options ... button.
• The Software solution shows the vCSA version installed.
• The Location of your Hosted Private Cloud.
• The Access policy of your infrastructure (Open or Restricted).
• The Number of datacenters in your infrastructure.
• The Number of IP blocks you own and the option to order more through the more options ... button
• Links to your management interfaces
• Your Compliance section shows your enabled and disabled options with direct access to modification through the more options ... buttons
• The VMware Options panel shows the status of vRealize Operations (which can be modified with the more options ... button), NSX Data Center for vSphere, and Network and security virtualization
  vRealize Operations has been renamed to VMware Aria Operations. The OVHcloud Control does not currently reflect that change.
• The Service management section shows your renewal date and also allows for license ordering or service cancellation through the more options ... button.

Datacenters

The Datacenters tab shows your current virtual datacenters and offers a button to add more as you need.

The full Datacenter view (see below) will give you more details and options.

Users

The Users tab lists all the accounts that can log in to vSphere and allows the creation of new ones.

You have several options when you click on the more options ... button next to a user:

• Edit the entries in the summary table
• View/Edit the user's rights for each datacenter
• Change the user's password
• Delete the user

Clicking View/Edit the rights for each DC will take you to the rights management window.

Click the more options ... button and then select Modify rights to edit them.

• vSphere access: to set the global rights for a user in vSphere

  Right	Description
  Operator	reserved for OVHcloud administrators
  None	no access
  Red-only	read-only access
  Read/Write	read and write access

• Access to the VM Network: concerns management rights over the public network section (a.k.a "VM Network" in the vSphere interface)

  Right	Description
  Operator	allows VMs to be configured on a public network
  None	no access
  Red-only	read-only access

• Access to the V(X)LANs: concerns management rights over the private network section (VXLAN for Hosted Private Cloud and VLAN for SDDC)

  Right	Description
  Operator	allows VMs to be configured on a private network
  Administrator	allows port groups to be managed on the virtual switch (creation, modification, deletion), for SDDCs only
  None	no access
  Read-only	read access only

• Add resources: gives the right to add additional resources through the OVHcloud plugin in the vSphere client

  

Security

The Security tab allows for the management of the vCenter access policy.

You can configure options settings with the buttons on the right.

At the bottom of the page, you can also add or see your Key Management Servers.

Check out Enabling Virtual Machine Encryption for more details.

Operations

The Operations tab keeps a log of all tasks executed on your infrastructure.

You can sort the list by type and if the tasks are actionable, you will have options available through the more options ... button.

Windows License

The Windows license tab shows your Windows SPLA license status.

More information is on the pricing page.

Datacenter View

A Hosted Private Cloud may include multiple virtual data centers.

The left-hand navigation bar will list them when you select a Hosted Private Cloud service. Click on one to open its management page.

The data center name and description can be customized by clicking the pencil icon.

General Information

The General Information tab gives you an overview of your services:

• The Name and Description fields are editable via the more options ... button.
• The Range shows the VMware services subscribed.
• The Hosts and Datastores fields give you the quantity of each in your Hosted Private Cloud.
• Links to your management interfaces.
• The Options section shows you the Disaster Recovery Plan solution status.

Hosts

The Hosts tab gives a summary of your hosts in the selected datacenter.

The billing mode is switchable via the more options ... button if the billing mode is set to hourly.

You can also order one host via the Order a host button.

Datastores

The Datastores tab gives a summary of your datastores in the selected data center.

If the datastore mode can be switched to global, you can do so with the ... button.

You can also order a datastore via the Order a datastore button.

Backup

The Backup tab allows you to activate a Veeam Backup solution.

Check out the Activating and using Veeam Managed Backup guide for more details.

Once the solution is activated, the Backup page also allows you to set up daily backup reports.

Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)

The Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) tab allows you to build a DRP plan with Zerto.

Check out Setting up Zerto Virtual Replication for your DRP for more details.

Go further

For more information and tutorials, please see our other Hosted Private Cloud support guides or explore the guides for other OVHcloud products and services.