Deploying VCF Management Domains with FC as Principal Storage

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User Guide: Deploying VMware Cloud Foundation with Everpure using Fibre Channel.

SDDC Manager Depot Configuration

  1. Log into the web UI of the temporary SDDC manager VM that will be used to deploy the environment. Click (1) DEPOT SETTINGS AND BINARY MANAGEMENT.

  2. If using an online depot, under Connect to the online depot, click the (1) CONFIGURE button. Otherwise, configure an offline depot.

  3. Paste the (1) Broadcom download token into the text field and click (2) AUTHENTICATE.

  4. After authentication, the installer will display a list of downloadable components. Check the (1) box at the top of the list to select all components then click (2) DOWNLOAD.

  5. Wait for all downloads to (1) be downloaded. Click (2) RETURN HOME.

VCF Operations Configuration

  1. Click the (1) DEPLOYMENT WIZARD dropdown menu and select (2) VMware Cloud Foundation.

  2. Select the (1) Deploy a new VCF fleet option and click (2) CONTINUE.

  3. If deploying a greenfield VCF environment, nothing is required to be selected on this screen and click (1) NEXT. If doing a brownfield VCF import, select the components as appropriate.

  4. Select the (1) Version of VCF to deploy, enter the (1) VCF Instance Name and Management Domain name. Select a (2) Deployment model. Enter (3) DNS domain name, Single DNS servers, and NTP servers. Click (4) NEXT.

  5. Select the (1) Operations Appliance Size, populate Operations primary FQDN, the Operations replica FQDN, Operations data node FQDN, Administrator Password, Confirm Administrator Password, Root Password, Confirm Root Password.

  6. Under the Fleet Management Appliance section, populate the (1) Appliance FQDN . If using the same passwords, check (2) Use same password as VCF Operations; otherwise populate the passwords for the fleet management appliance.

    Under the Operations Collector Appliance section, populate the (1) Appliance FQDN . If using the same passwords, check (2) Use same password as VCF Operations; otherwise populate the passwords for the operations collector appliance.

VCF Automation Configuration

If the VCF Automation appliance will be deployed later, (1) check the I want to connect a VCF Automation Instance later checkbox. Otherwise, enter the (2) Appliance FQDN and Administrator Password then Confirm the Administrator Password. Enter the (3) VCF automation node IPs, Node name prefix, and Internal cluster CIDR. Click (4) NEXT.

vCenter Configuration

Enter the configuration details for the (1) vCenter appliance: Appliance FQDN, Appliance Size, Appliance Storage Size, Datacenter Name, Cluster Name, (optional) SSO Domain Name, Administrator Password and Root Password. Click (2) NEXT.

NSX Manager Configuration

Enter the configuration details for the (1) NSX Manager cluster and its appliances. Populate the Appliance Size, Cluster FQDN, Appliance 1 FQDN, Appliance 2 FQDN, Appliance 3 FQDN, Administrator Password, Root Password and Audit Password. Click (2) NEXT.

Storage Configuration

Select the (1) VMFS on Fibre Channel (FC) datastore option and enter the corresponding (2) VMFS on FC Datastore Name. Click (3) NEXT.

Hosts Configuration

Enter the (1) ESXi Root Password for the 4+ hosts that will be added to the management domain. Add each (2) host by FQDN and then click (3) CONFIRM ALL FINGERPRINTS after (4) confirming the fingerprints. Click NEXT.

Network Configuration

Enter the details for the (1) ESXi Management Network: VLAN ID, CIDR Notation, MTU and Gateway. If the VM Management Network will have a different IP scope than the ESX Management Network, uncheck (2) the Use same inputs from ESX Management Network box; if using the same IP scope as the ESX Management Network, check (2) the box.

Enter the details for the (3) vMotion Network: VLAN ID, MTU, CIDR Notation, Gateway, IP Address Range source and the last IP address of the range (To). Click (4) NEXT.

Distributed Switch Configuration

  1. Depending on the Distributed Switch needs of the environment, different options can be selected. ENS is selected by default if no further steps are taken; the hosts in this lab do not support Enhanced Network Stack (ENS) so it will be deselected. More information on this can be found in William Lam's blog post.

    Click on (1) SELECT under Default.

  2. Expand the (1) default distributed switch and scroll down on the page.

  3. If the environment doesn't support ENS, deselect (1) Apply default operation mode configured in NSX Manager and select the (2) Standard Operational Mode.

  4. Populate the (1) Tranport Zones information: Transport Zone Name, VLAN ID, IP Assignment (TEP), Pool Name, CIDR, IP Range Start, IP Range End and Gateway. Click (2) NEXT.

SDDC Manager Configuration

Populate the permanent (1) SDDC Manager information that will be deployed: Appliance FQDN, Root Password, VCF Password and Administrator Password. Click (2) NEXT.

Review and Deploy

  1. Review the (1) Summary information from what was previously configured before starting the validation. If a JSON spec would be useful for a future deployment that might be similar, the JSON spec for what was previously configured can be downloaded on this page by clicking (2) DOWNLOAD JSON SPEC. Click (3) NEXT.

  2. If the validation completes successfully, proceed to deploying the environment by clicking (3) DEPLOY.

    If a JSON spec would be useful for a future deployment that might be similar, the JSON spec for what was previously configured can be downloaded on this page by clicking (2) DOWNLOAD JSON SPEC.

    If it was not successful, the temporary SDDC manager appliance will communicate where the issue is. Resolve the issue and then click (1) RE-RUN VALIDATIONS.