After you connect VMware Cloud Gateway to VMware Cloud, connect your on-premises VMware Cloud Foundation deployment to VMware Cloud Gateway to monitor your infrastructure from VMware Cloud Foundation+.

When you connect your VMware Cloud Foundation to VMware Cloud Gateway, it establishes a connection between your VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware Cloud Foundation+.

Note:

To manage it, VMware Cloud Foundation+ adds a few roles prefixed with CloudServicesGateway in vCenter Server for the management domain. Do not modify or delete them.

Prerequisites

  • Ensure that the time is in sync between SDDC Manager, vCenter Server instances, NSX Local Manager instances, and VMware Cloud Gateway.
  • Verify that VMware Cloud Gateway supports the number of workload domains available in your deployment. See Prerequisites for VMware Cloud Foundation+.

Procedure

  1. In a web browser, go to https://gw-address:5480/gw-platform/ where gw-address is the IP address or FQDN of VMware Cloud Gateway.
  2. Under the VMware Cloud card, click Launch.
  3. On the Connect vCenter ServervCenter Server orVMware Cloud Foundation Instance card, select Connect > VMware Cloud Foundation Instance.

    The right card represents the task to connect the cloud gateway to SDDC Manager. In it, select Connect and then VMware Cloud Foundation Instance.
  4. Enter the details of your VMware Cloud Foundation and click Confirm.

    You enter deployment name, SDDC Manager FQDN, HTTPS port, and administrator credentials.
  5. Verify that the certificate warning displays the SHA1 thumbprint of the SSL certificate that is installed on the target SDDC Manager instance, and click Yes to accept the certificate thumbprint.
  6. To connect a VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5.2 deployment in key-based licensing mode with multiple workload domains to the cloud, converting it to mixed licensing mode, select a workload domain configuration that you plan to manage from the cloud and click Next.

    In mixed licensing mode, the management domain and selected VI workload domains are included in the capacity of your VMware Cloud Foundation+ subscription. Other VI workload domains can continue to use license keys for their management components.


    You select to connect to the management domain and to the management and all available VI workload domains.
  7. Review the details of the VMware Cloud Foundation and click Next.
  8. Select the check box to accept your VMware Cloud Foundation sending data to VMware Cloud.
  9. Click Connect VCF Instance.

What to do next

Subscribe the VMware Cloud Foundation instance to VMware Cloud Foundation+ . For a clean deployment of VMware Cloud Foundation, you must do it before the subscription-ready mode expires. See Subscribe the VMware Cloud Foundation Instance to VMware Cloud Foundation+.

After the registration is complete, you can monitor your VMware Cloud Foundation from the VMware Cloud Console. Log in to https://vmc.vmware.com and click Inventory. You can view all the VMware Cloud Foundation instances that are connected to the cloud.