After you bring up an additional VMware Cloud Foundation instance to you environment, to activate the VMware Aria Automation services in the additional VMware Cloud Foundation instance, perform the necessary configuration tasks.

Return to the previous procedures and configure VMware Aria Automation to provision virtual machines and network services in the additional VMware Cloud Foundation instance according to your values in the VMware Cloud Foundation Planning and Preparation Workbook.

Procedure

Steps Description
1. Create a Virtual Machine and Template Folder and a Resource Pool for the VMware Aria Automation-Managed Workloads for Private Cloud Automation for VMware Cloud Foundation Create a virtual machine folder and a resource pool on the VI workload domain vCenter Server to group VMware Aria Automation-managed workloads. Repeat this procedure for each VI workload domain vCenter Server in the additional VMware Cloud Foundation instance.
2. Configure Service Account Privileges in vSphere and NSX Manager for Private Cloud Automation for VMware Cloud Foundation

Configure the necessary privileges for VMware Aria Automation on both the VI workload domain vCenter Server and the VI workload domain NSX Manager cluster in the additional VMware Cloud Foundation instance.

Repeat for the management domain vCenter Server and the VI workload domain NSX Manager cluster in the additional VMware Cloud Foundation instance according to your values in the VMware Cloud Foundation Planning and Preparation Workbook.
3. Configure VMware Aria Automation Assembler for Private Cloud Automation for VMware Cloud Foundation Create and link vCenter Server and NSX cloud accounts to Active Directory service users with the necessary privileges to provide cloud templates provisioning through VMware Aria Automation.

Repeat this procedure for each VI workload domain in the additional VMware Cloud Foundation instance according to your values in the VMware Cloud Foundation Planning and Preparation Workbook.
4. Configure VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator for Private Cloud Automation for VMware Cloud Foundation

Import the trusted certificate of the certificate authority and add the VI workload domain vCenter Server to VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator.

Repeat this procedure for each certificate and each VI workload domain in the additional VMware Cloud Foundation instance according to your values in the VMware Cloud Foundation Planning and Preparation Workbook.