Most of the virtual infrastructure components installed by Cloud Foundation require their hostnames and IP addresses to be defined prior to deployment.
During the initial deployment of Cloud Foundation, the management domain is created. Components specific to the management domain need to be defined prior to installation.
After the initial deployment, you can create additional workload domains as required. Components specific to each additional workload domain need to be defined prior to their creation.
Planning ahead for the initial deployment and the workload domains to be created will avoid delays in a deployment.
The following table provides an example of the information to be collected for the virtual infrastructure layer using the standard deployment model with a single workload domain. This example uses a fictional DNS domain called rainpole.local for illustration purposes. Modify the sample information to conform to your site's configuration.
Workload Domain |
Hostname |
DNS Zone |
IP Address |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Management |
sfo01m01sddcmgr |
sfo01.rainpole.local |
172.16.11.60 |
SDDC Manager |
sfo01m01psc01 |
sfo01.rainpole.local |
172.16.11.61 |
Platform Services Controller 01 |
|
sfo01m02psc02 |
sfo01.rainpole.local |
172.16.11.63 |
Platform Services Controller 02 |
|
sfo01m01vc01 |
sfo01.rainpole.local |
172.16.11.63 |
vCenter Server |
|
sfo01m01esx01 |
sfo01.rainpole.local |
172.16.11.101 |
ESXi host 01 |
|
sfo01m01esx02 |
sfo01.rainpole.local |
172.16.11.102 |
ESXi host 02 |
|
sfo01m01esx03 |
sfo01.rainpole.local |
172.16.11.103 |
ESXi host 03 |
|
sfo01m01esx04 |
sfo01.rainpole.local |
172.16.11.104 |
ESXi host 04 |
|
sfo01m01nsx01 |
sfo01.rainpole.local |
172.16.11.64 |
NSX Manager |
|
sfo01m01nsxc01 |
172.16.11.65 |
NSX Controller 01 |
||
sfo01m01nsxc02 |
172.16.11.66 |
NSX Controller 02 |
||
sfo01m01nsxc03 |
172.16.11.67 |
NSX Controller 03 |
||
VI Workload #1 |
sfo01w01vc01 |
sfo01.rainpole.local |
172.16.11.68 |
vCenter Server |
sfo01w01esx01 |
sfo01.rainpole.local |
172.16.17.101 |
ESXi host 01 |
|
sfo01w01esx02 |
sfo01.rainpole.local |
172.16.17.102 |
ESXi host 02 |
|
sfo01w01esx03 |
sfo01.rainpole.local |
172.16.17.103 |
ESXi host 03 |
|
sfo01w01esx04 |
sfo01.rainpole.local |
172.16.17.104 |
ESXi host 04 |
|
sfo01w01nsx01 |
sfo01.rainpole.local |
172.16.11.69 |
NSX Manager |
|
sfo01w01nsxc01 |
172.17.17.120 |
NSX Controller 01 |
||
sfo01w01nsxc02 |
172.17.17.121 |
NSX Controller 02 |
||
sfo01w01nsxc03 |
172.17.17.122 |
NSX Controller 03 |