Month: October 2020

Configuring vCloud Director 10 Part 2. Adding Provider Virtual Data Center.

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This is a continuation of deploying VMware Cloud Director 10. In my last post, I walked through configuring the vSphere lookup service, and adding the vCenter (here). In this post I’ll go over adding a Provider Virtual Data Center (PVDC).

Adding a PVDC

Log into the vCD provider interface, and switch to the Cloud Resources view by clicking the menu to the right of vCloud Director logo. Select the Provider VDCs option in the menu on the left, and then “NEW” link to begin.

On page 1, you’ll have to fill in some general information about the PVDC. Give it a name and description meaningful to the resources the PVDC will be connected to. In this example, I am connecting to my home lab. Click NEXT.

On page 2, select the vCenter and click NEXT.

On page 3, you’ll see the available resources. This would be for both compute and storage. In this example I am using a lab, so I only have one available. Hardware compatibility is also configured here for the future tenants deployed to this PVDC. Click NEXT

On Page 4, the available storage policies configured in the vCenter that the tenants would use in this PVDC, will be available for selection here. Click NEXT.

On Page 5, your mileage may vary depending how your environment is configured. In my lab example, I have chosen the default selection. Click NEXT.

On page 6, you are presented with a confirmation of the selected config. Make any adjustments, and click FINISH.

Be patient as it can take some time to build the PVDC. Just monitor the recent tasks for task progress and completion. The end result should show a “Normal” for a status under the configured Provider VDCs.

At this point, the provider side configuration is almost complete. We still need to configure the public facing address. If this were a production deployment, we also find it necessary to configure a VIP/load balancer to place in front of the VCD appliances to handle traffic load. For production deployments there would also be the need to setup signed certificates for the appliances.

In my next blog I’ll go over configuring the public address.

Configuring vCloud Director 10 Part 1. Adding vSphere lookup Service and vCenter.

CaptainvOPs

This is a continuation of deploying VMware Cloud Director 10. In my last post, I walked through deploying additional appliances for database high availability (here). Today we will add the vSphere lookup service and the vCenter.

Configuring the vSphere Lookup Service

Log into the vCD provider interface, and switch to the Administrator view by clicking the menu to the right of vCloud Director logo. Then under Settings on the right select vSphere Services.

After clicking the “REGISTER” link in the upper right, we’ll be able to add the lookup service URL link for the vCenter we’ll connect to a little later. Registering with vSphere Lookup Service enables vCloud Director to discover other services, and allows other services to discover this instance of vCloud Director.

Once all of your information is added, click the Register button. Watch the task for successful completion below.

Adding the vCenter

Click on the menu again to the right of vCloud Director logo, and select the vSphere Resources. On the top menu option to the right “vCenters”, click the Add button.

On page 1 of the wizard, fill in the required information for the vCenter. We already configured the lookup service, so we can leave that option selected here to provide the URL. Click next.

On page 2, add the information for the NSX-V appliance. Click Next.

Click finish, and then wait for the vCenter to connect and show a status of Normal.

Now that we have the vCenter connected, we can proceed to setting up and configuring the Provider Virtual Data Center (PVDC). This is required in order to make the vCenter resources such as compute and storage available to tenants. I’ll go over configuring the PVDC in the next blog.