Supported Scenarios for Converting or Importing vSphere Environments to VMware Cloud Foundation

There are two main scenarios for using the VCF Import Tool, depending on whether or not you already have SDDC Manager deployed.

Supported Scenarios

Scenarios	Description
Scenario A: Convert	Your environment does not have SDDC Manager and you want to convert existing vSphere infrastructure to the VMware Cloud Foundation management domain.
Scenario B: Import	Your environment does have SDDC Manager deployed and you want to import existing vSphere infrastructure as VI workload domains.

Glossary of Terms for Converting/Importing vSphere Environments

Term	Description
BOM	Bill of materials. List of supported software versions for a given VMware Cloud Foundation release
Co-located	vCenter Server virtual machine is located on a cluster that it manages
Default cluster	The first cluster in the management workload domain where the management vCenter virtual machine is hosted.
ELM	vCenter Single Sign-On Enhanced Linked Mode (Multiple vCenter Servers in the same SSO domain)
SSO	vCenter Single Sign-On