4.3.4 vCloud Connector Offline Data Transfer Particulars
While tuning both storage and networking can get you so far, there are times the VMs and their disk files to be transferred online are too large for available resources. For this reason, vCloud Connector also provides the Offline Data Transfer method shown in
Figure 14.
By executing the following mandatory steps, a normal vCloud Connector node is converted to an ODT Node:
1. Log in to vSphere Client.
2. Right-click the deployed ODT Node VM.
3. Click Open Console.
4. Press Enter to get the login prompt.
5. Log in as root with vmware as password.
6. Change the directory with the command cd /opt/vmware/hcagent/scripts.
7. Run the script ./configureSneakernetNode.sh.
To verify that the vCloud Connector Node is configured as an ODT Node:
1. SSH to the ODT Node as admin using the password vmware.
2. Run the following Postgres query and verify it returns true:
psql hcs postgres
select config_value from hcs_config where config_key='is_sneakernet_node';
config_value
--------------
true
(1)