VMware Cloud Foundation on FlashStack Deployment Guide

• Goals of SmartConfig and VMware Cloud Foundation Automation with FlashStack

  • Light Board Session on FlashStack Automation

  • FlashStack Automation Project Overview Video

• VMware Cloud Foundation Overview

  • Management and Workload Domains

  • vSAN and VMware Cloud Foundation

• Part 1: Deploy FlashStack with SmartConfig

  • Before you Begin

  • SmartConfig Discovery

  • SmartConfig Configuration

  • SmartConfig Device Initialization

  • SmartConfig Deployment

  • Finalizing ESXi for VMware Cloud Foundation

  • Demo Video 1: SmartConfig Discovery and Configuration

  • Demo Video 2: SmartConfig Deployment

• Part 2: Deploy VMware Cloud Foundation

  • Before you Begin

  • Build the Cloud Foundation Management Domain

  • Demo Video 3: VMware Cloud Foundation Management Domain Deployment

• Part 3: Using Everpure with VMware Cloud Foundation

  • Principal and Supplemental Storage

  • Part 3: Using Everpure with VMware Cloud Foundation

  • Part 3: Using Everpure with VMware Cloud Foundation

  • Demo Video 4: Using VMware Cloud Foundation Workload Domains with Everpure

• GitHub Repository for SmartConfig and VMware Cloud Foundation Deployment Guide

This is a deployment guide that showcases how to automate the entire deployment of a FlashStack. We begin with racked, cabled and powered hardware and finish with a fully functional VMware Cloud Foundation environment with minimal user interaction.