Deploy vRealize Operations Manager Tenant App for VMware Cloud Director

To deploy vRealize Operations Manager Tenant App for VMware Cloud Director, you configure a REST API request and provide the parameters for the vRealize Operations Manager Tenant App environment.

In the HTTPS payload for deployment of vRealize Operations Manager Tenant App, you must specify an existing vRealize Operations Manager installation as an integration.

Prerequisites

You must meet all requirements before deploying vRealize Operations Manager Tenant App. For information, see Before you deploy vRealize Operations Manager Tenant App.
Verify that the vRealize Operations Manager Tenant App version you want to deploy is supported by VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager. For information about the interoperability between VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager 1.2 and other VMware products, see the VMware Product Interoperability Matrix.
In the vropsta/vrops_version-number/ova directory on the VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager host, save the vRealize Operations Manager Tenant App OVA file.
Verify that you installed vRealize Operations Manager. You must specify the vRealize Operations Manager installation as an integration in the REST AP payload.

Procedure

In your Web browser, start Postman and configure the following HTTPS request.

On the Headers tab, add the JSON session ID.


Setting	Value
JSESSIONID	`vcp_lcm_session_id`

To deploy vRealize Operations Manager Tenant App, configure the following HTTPS request.

Setting	Value
HTTPS request method	POST
URL	https://`vcp_lcm_ip_address`:`port-number`/api/`api-version`/lcm/environment?action=DEPLOY
Body	{ "environmentName": "{{vropsta_env_id}}", "products": [ { "productType": "VROPSTA", "productId": "{{vropsta_product_id}}", "version": "{{vrops_version}}", "adminPassword": "{{password}}", "deployment": { "vcenterName": "{{vcenter_hostname}}.{{domainName}}_{{vc_user}}", "datacenterName": "{{vc_datacenter}}", "clusterName": "{{vc_cluster}}", "resourcePool": "{{vc_res_pool}}", "datastoreNames": [ "{{vc_datastore}}" ] }, "integrations": [ { "integrationId": "vropsta-01-to-vrops-01", "datacenterComponentType": "VROPS", "hostname": "{{vrops_ip}}", "integrationUsername": "admin", "integrationPassword": "{{vrops_password}}" }, { "integrationId": "vropsta-01-to-vcd-01", "productType": "VCD", "hostname": "{{vcd_lb_ip}}", "integrationUsername": "administrator@system", "integrationPassword": "{{password}}", "properties": { "tenantAppProxy": "{{vropsta_proxy}}" } } ], "nodes": [ { "hostName": "{{vropsta_name}}.{{domainName}}", "vmName": "{{vropsta_name}}", "rootPassword": "{{password}}", "nics": [ { "ipAddress": "{{vropsta_ip}}", "networkName": "vcd-dmz-nw-portgroup" } ] } ] } ] }

Setting

Value

HTTPS request method

POST

URL

https://vcp_lcm_ip_address:port-number/api/api-version/lcm/environment?action=DEPLOY

Body

{
    "environmentName": "{{vropsta_env_id}}",
    "products": [
        {
            "productType": "VROPSTA",
            "productId": "{{vropsta_product_id}}",
            "version": "{{vrops_version}}",
            "adminPassword": "{{password}}",
            "deployment": {
                "vcenterName": "{{vcenter_hostname}}.{{domainName}}_{{vc_user}}",
                "datacenterName": "{{vc_datacenter}}",
                "clusterName": "{{vc_cluster}}",
                "resourcePool": "{{vc_res_pool}}",
                "datastoreNames": [
                    "{{vc_datastore}}"
                ]
            },
            "integrations": [
                {
                    "integrationId": "vropsta-01-to-vrops-01",
                    "datacenterComponentType": "VROPS",
                    "hostname": "{{vrops_ip}}",
                    "integrationUsername": "admin",
                    "integrationPassword": "{{vrops_password}}"
                },
                {
                    "integrationId": "vropsta-01-to-vcd-01",
                    "productType": "VCD",
                    "hostname": "{{vcd_lb_ip}}",
                    "integrationUsername": "administrator@system",
                    "integrationPassword": "{{password}}",
                    "properties": {
                        "tenantAppProxy": "{{vropsta_proxy}}"
                    }
                }
            ],
            "nodes": [
                {
                    "hostName": "{{vropsta_name}}.{{domainName}}",
                    "vmName": "{{vropsta_name}}",
                    "rootPassword": "{{password}}",
                    "nics": [
                        {
                            "ipAddress": "{{vropsta_ip}}",
                            "networkName": "vcd-dmz-nw-portgroup"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

(Optional) You can specify the following additional properties.


Property	Value Type	Mandatory	Description
diskMode	VC disk mode	No	The vCenter disk mode for the virtual disk to create. Choose from: thin thick eagerZeroedThickDefault: thin

In vCenter Server, navigate to the vRealize Operations Manager Tenant App virtual machine and update the root password to match the root password you provided in Step b.

Results

If the request is successful, you see an OK (200) status and "taskId":id-number. To check the status of the deployment, see Retrieve the status of a VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager task.