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, toggle on Integrate with Identity Manager.
   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. To integrate with VMware Identity Broker as a Single Sign-On (SSO) authentication server, toggle on Integrate with VMware SSO.
   Complete the Product Property information in the fields that appear:

   • Datacenter. Enter the VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle datacenter.
   • vCenter Host. Enter the vCenter that belongs to the datacenter and where VMware Identity Broker is a built-in container.
   • Default Tenant. Leave the default value set to customer.
   • User Type. Select user or group.
   • User. Enter the username of the user with SSO privileges to integrate with VMware Identity Broker.
   • Domain. Enter the domain that the user belongs to.
     Note: Domain is required for VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator and VMware Aria Operations for Logs. It is not required for VMware Aria Operations.

   Note: If you import an existing environment and choose to import a VMware Aria Suite product that has VMware Identity Broker integration configured, the Product Property information is populated with discovered properties for SSO integration.
8. To use OVFs hosted on a vCenter content library if there is a network latency from VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle to vCenter, toggle on Use Content Library.
   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.

9. To configure Binary Mapping, click Next.