Configure the Cloud Zones in VMware Aria Automation for Private Cloud Automation for VMware Cloud Foundation

Cloud zones are specific to VMware Aria Automation Assembler projects. A cloud zone corresponds to a set of resources within a cloud account. You reconfigure the initial cloud zone created during the configuration of the vCenter Server and NSX Manager cloud accounts.

You assign the appropriate resources to the cloud zone by configuring resource pools, placement policy, and capability tags.

UI Procedure

1. Log in to the VMware Aria Automation cloud services console at https://<aria_automation_cluster_fqdn>/csp/gateway/portal with a user assigned the Assembler administrator service role.
2. On the main navigation bar, click Services​​.
3. Under My Services​, click Assembler​​.

4. Click the Infrastructure tab and click Continue.

5. In the left pane navigate to Configure > Cloud zones .

6. On the Cloud zones page, in the cloud zone card for the VI workload domain, click Open.

7. On the Summary tab, configure the virtual machine and template folder name for VMware Aria Automation-managed workloads and the capability tag according to your values in the VMware Cloud Foundation Planning and Preparation Workbook.

8. Click the Compute tab and, from the drop-down menu, select Dynamically include compute by tags.

9. On the Compute tab, in the table, select the resource pool for VMware Aria Automation-managed workloads in the vSphere cluster for the VI workload domain according to your value in the VMware Cloud Foundation Planning and Preparation Workbook, and click Tags.

10. In the Tags dialog box, in the Add tags text box, enter enabled:true, press Enter, and click Save.

11. If there are resource pools for statically or dynamically deployed virtual machines for organization workloads in other vSphere clusters, repeat steps 9 and 10 for each of these user-defined resource pools.

12. On the Compute tab, in the Filter tags text box, enter enabled:true, press Enter, and click Save.

13. Repeat this procedure for each cloud zone to activate the vSphere clusters across 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!"
   
   $sddcDomainName = "sfo-w01"
   
   $configUser = "configadmin"
   $configPass = "VMw@re1!"
   $tagKey = "enabled"
   $tagValue = "true"
   $vmFolder = "sfo-w01-fd-workload"
   $resourcePoolName = "sfo-w01-cl01-rp-workload"

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

   Update-vRACloudAccountZone -server $sddcManagerFqdn -user $sddcManagerUser -pass $sddcManagerPass -domain $sddcDomainName -vraUser $configUser -vraPass $configPass -tagKey $tagKey -tagValue $tagValue -folder $vmFolder -resourcePool $resourcePoolName