To complete the integration with the VMware Cloud Foundation instance, you create accounts for the SDDC Manager, vCenter Server, and NSX Manager components in VMware Aria Operations.

UI Procedure

  1. Log in to the VMware Aria Operations interface at https://<aria_operations_fqdn> with a user assigned the Administrator role.
  2. In the left pane, navigate to Data sources > Integrations.
  3. Click the Accounts tab and click Add Account.
  4. On the Account Types page, click the VMware Cloud Foundation card.
  5. On the Add account -VMware Cloud Foundation page, configure the settings according to your VMware Cloud Foundation Planning and Preparation Workbook, and click Validate connection.
  6. In the Review and accept certificate dialog box, click Accept.
  7. On the Info dialog, click OK.
  8. Click Save.
  9. Click the Domains tab and click the tab for the management domain.
  10. Create the vCenter Server cloud account.
    1. Click the vCenter tab and configure the settings according to the values in your VMware Cloud Foundation Planning and Preparation Workbook.
    2. Click Validate connection.
    3. In the Review and accept certificate dialog box, click Accept.
    4. On the Info dialog, click OK.
    5. Click Save this domain.
  11. Activate vSAN monitoring.
    1. Click on the vSAN tab, Validate connection.
    2. On the Info dialog, click OK.
    3. Click Save this domain.
  12. Create the NSX cloud account.
    1. Click on the NSX-T tab, set the NSX-T configuration toggle to Activated.
    2. Configure the settings according to the values in your VMware Cloud Foundation Planning and Preparation Workbook.
    3. Click Validate connection.
    4. In each Review and accept certificate dialog box, click Accept.
    5. On the Info dialog, click OK.
    6. Click Save this domain.
    7. Click Save.
  13. Repeat the steps to create the vCenter Server cloud account, activate vSAN monitoring, and create the NSX cloud account for each VI workload domain.

PowerShell Procedure

  1. Start PowerShell.

  2. Replace the values in the sample code with values from your VMware Cloud Foundation Planning and Preparation Workbook and run the commands in the PowerShell console.

    $sddcManagerFqdn = "sfo-vcf01.sfo.rainpole.io"
$sddcManagerUser = "[email protected]"
$sddcManagerPass = "VMw@re1!"

$collectorGroupName = "sfo-m01-collector-group"

  3. Perform the configuration by running the command in the PowerShell console.

    Add-vROPSAdapterVcf -server $sddcManagerFqdn -user $sddcManagerUser  -pass $sddcManagerPass -collectorGroupName $collectorGroupName