The NSX Application Platform Automation Appliance wizard provides an integrated experience of installing Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and NSX Application Platform.
The wizard simplifies deployment by connecting to the VMware vCenter, discovering environment parameters, and validating settings before making deployment changes.
Prerequisites
Allocate the required IP and VIP addresses for the number of NSX Application Platform instances in your deployment.
Note: NSX Application Platform instances can be used to deploy multiple NSX Application Platform to manage distinct NSX Manager cluster and guest clusters that use the same Supervisor cluster. The maximum number of supported NSX Application Platform instances is 5 per Supervisor cluster. This option cannot be modified after you deploy an initial NSX Application Platform instance.Multiple instances require additional IP addresses in the Workload and Frontend networks. Refer to the following table for the requirements based on the number of deployed NSX Application Platform instances.Instance Number Min Frontend Subnet Size Min Workload Subnet Size 1 /25 /27 2 /24 /26 3 /24 /26 4 /23 /25 5 /23 /25 Note: The in the deployment wizard setting for instances cannot be changed after deployment.- Familiarize yourself with the deployment process. Watch the Deploy NSX Application Platform using Automation Appliance video.
- If you are using proxy, verify that the NSX Manager version is updated to 4.2.
This option is available only in the NSX Application Platform Automation Appliance 4.2 release.