Connect VMware Aria Automation 7.x to Your SDDC

You can connect your on-premises installation of VMware Aria Automation 7.x to your cloud SDDC to create blueprints allowing users to deploy VMs.

Prerequisites

• See the VMware Product Interoperability Matrices for the list of VMware Aria Automation 7.x releases that you can use with VMware Cloud on AWS.
• Ensure that you have completed all the steps in Prepare Your SDDC to Work with VMware Aria Automation Products.
• Ensure that all VMware Aria Automation VMs are configured to use TLS 1.2.

Procedure

1. In VMware Aria Automation, select Infrastructure > Endpoints.
2. Select New > Virtual > vSphere (vCenter).
3. Specify the vCenter URL in the format https://fqdn/sdk.
4. Specify the cloud admin credentials.
5. Click Test Connection and Accept Certificate.
6. Create a Fabric Group.
   1. Add the cloud admin as the fabric administrator.
   2. Add the default SDDC cluster Cluster-1 to the Compute Resources.
   For more information on creating a Fabric Group, see Create a Fabric Group.
7. Create reservations for the components that the cloud admin has access to.

   Option	Description
   Resource Pool	Compute-ResourcePool
   Datastore	WorkloadDatastore
   VM & Template Folder	Workloads
   Network	Use the logical network that you created as part of the prerequisites

   Important: Because VMware Cloud on AWS places VMs provisioned for VMware Aria Automation Business Groups in a non-standard folder, you must set the VMware Aria Automation custom property VMware.VirtualCenter.Folder to reference the workloads folder ( VM & Template Folder). See the VMware Aria Automation Custom Properties Reference.
8. Create a Network Profile for the logical network you created as part of the prerequisites.
   For more information on creating a network profile, see Create a Network Profile.
9. Create a Blueprint.
   For more information on Blueprints, see Providing Service Blueprints to Users.