In the previous blog post, I created and started the HYCU virtual machine. Now let’s move on to the initial configuration of the Backup Controller.

Initializing the HYCU backup system

To start the initialization of the HYCU backup controller, you need to connect to the virtual machine via the Nutanix console. Connect to your Prism Element interface, go to “VM”, right-click on the virtual machine you just deployed and click on “Launch Console”:

A new window will open and you should see the initialization startup window. Select “HYCU Backup Controller” from the list and validate:

On the next screen, you must now enter all the network configurations, namely:

• Host name of the virtual machine
• Its IPv4 address
• The associated subnet mask
• The default gateway
• The DNS server
• Possibly, the domain

Once all the information is entered, validate to launch the initialization of the backup controller:

A little less than 10 minutes later, the initialization will be complete and you will be able to access the solution’s web administration console at the address https://HYCU-IP-ADDRESS:8443:

The default login and password are: “admin” for the login and “admin” for the password, to be changed quickly for obvious security reasons:

You are now connected to the HYCU web interface, we can now move on to the basic configuration:

Basic configuration of my HYCU controller

After finishing deploying the solution, there are some basic configurations to be done to make our system fully operational. I detail some steps here, others not because the article is adapted to a use in lab mode!

Changing the password

We will start by changing the default password of the admin account which is currently “admin”. To do this, go to the top right of the interface, click on the connected username “admin” and in the menu that appears, click on “Change Password”:

Enter the old password, the new password twice and validate:

Checking the license level

Before continuing, let’s check the license level of our installation. To do this, click on the gear at the top right of the window to display the drop-down menu, then click on “Licensing”:

If everything is OK, you should now have a valid “Free license” type license:

Bandwidth Throttling Configuration

Working from home most of the time, I planned to schedule my backup slots between 8pm and 7am. But since I’m also a gamer, there’s no way I’m going to crush my network bandwidth during my sessions… So I set up a bandwidth limitation. In the settings (cogwheel), in “Networks > Throttling”:

Then, in “Throttling Windows”, I was able to enter a limitation range named “Gaming Hours” which extends from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m.:

And then I added a throughput speed limitation to 1MiBps:

Additional configurations

Among the additional configurations that can be done but that I will not detail here because it is not in place in my lab, there is in particular the AD authentication part:

And the email notifications part: