You can download or create the stemcells that VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs [Windows] needs for creating VMs on your infrastructure.
Important Traffic is not encrypted with TLS between Gorouter and Windows stemcells.
A BOSH stemcell is a versioned OS image wrapped with IaaS specific packaging. BOSH uses a stemcell to supply the basic OS for any Windows VM it creates. A typical BOSH stemcell for Windows contains:
For more information about stemcells, see the BOSH documentation in the Cloud Foundry BOSH documentation.
Check the compatibility details before deploying and installing the TAS for VMs [Windows] tile. See Stemcells (Windows) on Broadcom Support.
Depending on your IaaS, you can create or download a stemcell using the following methods:
Azure: To activate and download the Azure Windows Stemcell, see Configuring the Azure Light Stemcell.
Google Cloud Platform (GCP): Download the GCP light Stemcell for Windows 2019 Server from the Stemcells (Windows) page on Broadcom Support.
vSphere: To create a stemcell, see Creating a Windows Stemcell for vSphere using stembuild.
Amazon Web Services (AWS): Download the AWS light Stemcell for Windows 2019 Server from the Stemcells (Windows) page on Broadcom Support.
On Azure, the stemcell is offered in the Azure Marketplace.
To start using the Azure Light Stemcell:
To use the Azure Light Stemcell, you must first accept the corresponding Microsoft license agreement, and enable the stemcell for your non-trial Azure Subscription through the Azure Marketplace.
To activate the Azure subscriptions that you want your stemcell to use:
Go to the Microsoft Azure portal and log in.
From the options on the left pane, click + Create a resource.
In Search the Marketplace, search for BOSH Stemcell for Windows Server 2019.
Select BOSH Stemcell for Windows Server 2019 from your search results. A description of the Azure stemcell appears.
Click the blue banner that reads Want to deploy programmatically? Get started.
Review the Terms of Use on the Configure Programmatic Deployment page that appears.
Under Choose the subscriptions, click Enable for each Azure subscription with which you want to use the stemcell.
Click Save.
To accept the license agreement for your stemcell:
Log in to to Azure with the Azure CLI, using this command:
az login
To list the available Windows stemcells and find latest Windows stemcell urn
, run this Azure CLI command:
az vm image list --all --publisher pivotal --sku 2019
For example:
az vm image list --all --publisher pivotal --sku 2019 Offer Publisher Sku Urn Version ------------------------ ----------- ----- --------------------------------------------------- ------------- bosh-windows-server-2019 pivotal 2019 pivotal:bosh-windows-server-2019:2019:2019.1.050001 2019.1.050001 bosh-windows-server-2019 pivotal 2019 pivotal:bosh-windows-server-2019:2019:2019.2.022001 2019.2.022001 bosh-windows-server-2019 pivotal 2019 pivotal:bosh-windows-server-2019:2019:2019.3.041001 2019.3.041001 bosh-windows-server-2019 pivotal 2019 pivotal:bosh-windows-server-2019:2019:2019.4.044001 2019.4.044001 bosh-windows-server-2019 pivotal 2019 pivotal:bosh-windows-server-2019:2019:2019.5.006001 2019.5.006001 bosh-windows-server-2019 pivotal 2019 pivotal:bosh-windows-server-2019:2019:2019.6.025001 2019.6.025001 bosh-windows-server-2019 pivotal 2019 pivotal:bosh-windows-server-2019:2019:2019.7.012001 2019.7.012001 bosh-windows-server-2019 pivotal 2019 pivotal:bosh-windows-server-2019:2019:2019.8.028001 2019.8.028001
In the previous example, pivotal:bosh-windows-server-2019:2019:2019.8.028001
is the latest Windows stemcell urn
.
To accept the terms for the selected Windows stemcell for each Azure subscription you want to use for the stemcell, run this command:
az vm image accept-terms --subscription SUBSCRIPTION_ID --urn URN-ID
Where:
SUBSCRIPTION_ID
is an Azure subscription with which you want to use the stemcell.URN-ID
is the urn
for the latest Windows stemcell. To download the Azure Light Stemcell for use in VMware Tanzu Operations Manager:
Go to the Stemcells (Windows) page on Broadcom Support.
Download the Azure Light Stemcell for Windows 2019 Server.
For information about how to deploy and configure the TAS for VMs [Windows] tile, see Installing and configuring TAS for VMs [Windows].