Using a Script to Skip Manual Installation of Google Cloud Drivers

Before you prepare VMs for conversion to Google Cloud (GC), you can use a script to skip manual installation of GC drivers on Linux VMware virtual machines.

Before You Begin

Verify that the following modules are configured to be available during the boot process: virtio, virtio_ring, virtio_pci, virtio_net, virtio_scsi. Although commonly used Linux distributions (RHEL, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu) will have these virtio driver modules packaged, you should still ensure that they are configured to be available.

Procedure

1. From the Commvault /Base folder on the Linux proxy, copy the cvInjectDrivers.sh script to the /etc/commvault folder on the source VM.

2. On the source VM, run the following script:

   sh /etc/commvault/cvInjectDrivers.sh / "virtio, virtio_ring, virtio_pci, virtio_scsi, virtio_net" /var/log/CVInjectDrivers.log 0
   

3. Run a full backup of the Linux VMWare VMs.

4. Perform a full replication on the GC target.

5. Run a planned failover and then verify that the destination VM boots up.