The Preparation Helper assists with setting up an environment to deploy orchestration appliances (AROVA). 

Note: The Preparation Helper must be used to prepare the environment before AROVA can be used for deployment or recovery.

The upper half of the Preparation Helper assists you with constructing a CLI command to create a service account and assign it permissions to access projects with the VMs to be orchestrated.

To use the Preparation Helper, do the following:

    1. Ensure Helper pre-configuration has been performed.
    2. On the Preparation Helper page, follow the prescribed steps and enter requested information to generate CLI command script.
    3. Click the Create CLI command button.
    4. Copy the generated CLI command text from the output window.
    5. Execute the copied CLI command script in a command window at the prepared environment. The command will automate:
      • Creation of the service account within the deployment project.
      • Creation of the AROVA access role with required permissions.
      • Assigning the role to the service account with projects expected to contain protected VMs.

Figure 28: The Preparation Helper.

The lower half of the Preparation Helper includes information about Google Cloud Shell commands with details for manually creating roles and a service account to operate AROVA appliances.

Important: It is not necessary to manually construct roles or a service account if you have used the automated Helper at the top of the screen.

See:

Preparation Helper Roles and Service Account