Join the three Global Manager nodes you deployed in the VMware Cloud Foundation management domain to form a cluster.

Procedure

  1. Log in to an NSX Global Manager node by using an SSH client.
  2. Run the following command to retrieve the Global Manager cluster ID.
    get cluster config | find Id:
  3. Copy the output of the command and save it.
  4. Run the following command to retrieve the thumbprint of the Global Manager API certificate.
    get certificate api thumbprint
  5. Copy the output of the command and save it.
  6. Log in to the second Global Manager node and run the following command to join this node to the cluster:
    join first_node_IP cluster-id cluster_ID username admin password nsx_admin_password thumbprint api_thumbprint

    where cluster_ID is the value from step 3 and certificate_thumbprint is the value from step 5.

  7. Validate that the node has been joined to the cluster.
    1. On the main navigation bar, click System.
    2. In the left pane, click Configuration > Appliance.
    3. Verify that the Cluster status is green that the cluster node is Available.
  8. Repeat steps 6 and 7 to join the third node to the cluster.

Results

The cluster formation and stabilization may take up to 15 minutes. Run the get cluster status command to view the cluster status.