Deploying Tanzu Operations Manager on GCP

This topic describes how you can deploy VMware Tanzu Operations Manager on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Before you deploy Tanzu Operations Manager, see the preparation steps in Preparing to deploy Tanzu Operations Manager on GCP.

After you complete this procedure, follow the instructions in Configuring BOSH Director on GCP.

Step 1: Locate the Tanzu Operations Manager installation file

1. Log in to Broadcom Support portal.

2. From the Releases drop-down menu, select the release for your to installation.

3. Select one of the following download files:

   • Tanzu Operations Manager for GCP
   • Tanzu Operations Manager YAML for GCP

   When you click the download link, your browser downloads or opens the OpsManager_VERSION_onGCP.pdf or OpsManager_VERSION_onGCP.yml file.
   
   These documents provide the GCP location of the Tanzu Operations Manager .tar.gz installation file based on the geographic location of your installation.

4. Copy the filepath string of the Tanzu Operations Manager image based on your deployment location.

Step 2: Create a private VM image

1. Log in to the GCP console.

2. In the navigation panel, click Compute Engine, then click Images.

3. Click Create Image.

4. Complete the following text boxes:

   • Name: Enter a name. For example, om-pcf.
   • Encryption: Leave Automatic (recommended) selected.
   • Source: Choose Cloud Storage file.

   • Cloud Storage file: Paste in the Google Cloud Storage filepath you copied from the PDF file in the previous step.

     

5. Click Create. The file might take a few minutes to import.

Step 3: Create the Tanzu Operations Manager VM instance

1. Select the check box for the image that you created above.

   

2. Click Create Instance.

3. In the Create an instance form, complete the following text boxes:

   • Name: Enter a name that matches the naming conventions of your deployment.
   • Zone: Choose a zone from the region in which you created your network.

   • Machine type: Choose n1-standard-2.

     • Click Customize to manually configure the vCPU and memory. a Tanzu Operations Manager VM instance requires the following minimum specifications:

       Machine Spec	Minimum Value
       CPU	2 vCPUs
       Memory	8 GB

   • Boot disk: Click Change, then perform the following steps:

     • Click Custom images if it is not already selected.
     • Click Boot disk type. If your environment has high performance needs, click SSD. As an example, environments used to develop Tanzu Operations Manager tiles might benefit from a higher performing Tanzu Operations Manager VM boot disk. For most environments, you can select Standard.

     • Set the Size (GB) of the boot disk to the minimum or higher.

       Machine Spec	Minimum Value
       Boot disk	100 GB

     • Select the Tanzu Operations Manager image you created in the previous step if it is not already selected.

       

     • Click Select to save.

   • Under Identity and API access, select the Service account you created when preparing your environment during the step Set up IAM Service Accounts.

   • Allow HTTP traffic: Leave this check box unselected.
   • Allow HTTPS traffic: Leave this check box unselected.
   • Networking: Select the Networking tab, and perform the following steps:
     • Under Network interfaces, perform the following steps:
       • Remove the default network interface if this interface still exists.
       • Select the network you created when preparing your environment in Create a GCP Network with Subnet in Preparing to Deploy Tanzu Operations Manager on GCP. For example, pcf-virt-net.
       • Under Subnetwork, select the pcf-infrastructure-subnet-GCP-REGION subnet that you created when preparing your environment in Create a GCP Network with Subnet in Preparing to Deploy Tanzu Operations Manager on GCP.
       • For Primary internal IP, select Ephemeral (Custom). Enter an IP address (for example, 192.168.101.5) in the Custom ephemeral IP address field. Specify the next available internal IP address located within the reserved IP range that you configure later in BOSH Director. Do not use the Gateway IP, for example 192.168.101.1.
       • For External IP, select Create IP address. In the next form, enter a name for the static IP. For example, om-public-ip. Click Reserve. In the External IP dropdown, select the static IP address you just reserved.
     • For Network tags, enter pcf-opsman and allow-https. These tags apply the firewall rules you created in Create Firewall Rules for the Network to the Tanzu Operations Manager VM.

4. Click Create to deploy the new Tanzu Operations Manager VM. This might take a few moments.

5. Navigate to your DNS provider, and create an entry that points a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) opsman.MY-DOMAIN to the pcf-opsman static IP address of Tanzu Operations Manager that you created in a previous step.

   In order to set up Tanzu Operations Manager authentication correctly, VMware recommends using an FQDN to access Tanzu Operations Manager. Using an ephemeral IP address to access Tanzu Operations Manager can cause authentication errors upon subsequent access.

Next steps

After you complete this procedure, follow the instructions in Configuring BOSH Director on GCP.

Later on, if you need to SSH into the Tanzu Operations Manager VM to perform diagnostic troubleshooting, see Log Into the Tanzu Operations Manager VM.