Configure infrastructure details

To configure infrastructure details when you create a product environment, use VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle.

Prerequisites

If the selected datacenter does not have an associated vCenter, add a vCenter.

Procedure

1. Select a vCenter from the drop-down menu.
   Note: There should be at least one vCenter associated with a datacenter.
2. Select a Cluster.
3. When you click Select a Folder, all folders that are associated in the vCenter are listed.
   If folders are not displayed, refresh vCenter data collection from the VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle settings page.
4. To deploy your VM, click Select a Resource Pool.
   All the resource pools that are associated with the selected cluster are listed.

   Note: You can select a resource pool to deploy your VM. Both folder and resource pool selection are optional. If you do not specify a resource pool, the VM is deployed in the root default resource pool of the selected cluster. If you do not specify the folder details for both vCenter and a resource pool, the VM deployment is saved in the root default VM folder of the datacenter inside the vCenter .
5. Select the required Network, DataStore, and Disk Disk Mode.
   Note: VMware Aria Operations deployment fails when you provide incorrect infrastructure details such as wrong DNS or gateway details without running a pre-check while you create an environment flow. If the deployment fails, you might not see the correct cause of deployment failure using the error or code message that appears in VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle UI, and you cannot proceed further with that deployment. As a result, you might have to delete the environment card from VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle with all the products or nodes that were deployed as part of that environment. You can run pre-check so that the Infrastructure-related issues are detected and can be corrected before starting the deployment.
6. With VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle, to integrate with VMware Workspace ONE Access, select Integrate with Identity Manager toggle button.
   Note: The default configuration admin given while installing VMware Workspace ONE Access (global environment) are made the admin for the product as well while integrating with VMware Workspace ONE Access.

   VMware Workspace ONE Access acts as an identity provider and manages SSO for the VMware Aria Suite products and VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle when integrated with VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle. SSO provides a single set of credentials to access all VMware Aria Suite applications and VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle. With SSO, you are only required to log in once, and then you can seamlessly access all VMware Aria Suite applications.

7. Select the Use Content Library to use OVFs hosted on a vCenter content library, if there is a network latency from VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle to vCenter.
   Copying OVF and VMDK files for deployment from VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle to vCenter might take more time and lead to a deployment failure if there is a network latency from VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle to the target vCenter. Content libraries in vCenter can be used to host OVFs. They can also be used from VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle to deploy products. You can perform the steps before you start a vCenter inventory sync operation in VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle.

   • To create a content library, see Create Library.
   • To import a content library, see Import Library.

   VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle supports deployment only from publisher or local content libraries.

8. To configure Binary Mapping, click Next.