Add a new workload cluster in vSphere IaaS control plane

After you have registered a vSphere IaaS control plane Supervisor, you can use Tanzu Platform for Kubernetes to provision resources and create a workload cluster.

Before you begin

Before you begin, fulfill these prerequisites:

• Obtain a vSphere IaaS control plane deployment.
• Register a vSphere Supervisor. For more information, see Register a Supervisor in Tanzu Platform.
• Ensure that you have the necessary permissions to create a new cluster.
• Ensure that you have already created the cluster group in which you want to place the new cluster.
• Ensure that each node has at least 4 vCPUs and 8 GB of RAM for your workload clusters.

• To enable Tanzu Application Engine, ensure that your cluster meets the following extra requirements:

  • Ensure that Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service Supervisor is running in vSphere IaaS control plane (vSphere 8 Update 2c and later).
  • Ensure that your workload cluster has at least 3 nodes, each with 4 vCPUs and 16 GB of RAM.

• Do one of the following:

  • Install and log in with the Tanzu CLI. For more information, see the VMware Tanzu CLI Documentation.
  • Log in to Tanzu Platform hub.

Add a new workload cluster

You can add a new workload cluster by using Tanzu Platform hub.

Tanzu Platform hub

Perform the following steps in Tanzu Platform hub:

1. In Tanzu Platform hub, select the Project in which you want to add a new cluster.
2. In the left navigation pane, click to expand Infrastructure and then click Kubernetes Clusters.
3. On the Kubernetes Clusters page, click the Clusters tab.
4. Click Add Cluster > Create Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster.
5. Select the management cluster and provisioner (vSphere namespace) in which you want to create the workload cluster.
6. Click Next.

7. Enter a name for the cluster, and specify the cluster group.

   The cluster name must start and end with a letter or number, contain only lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens, and be a maximum length of 63 characters.

   To enable support for Tanzu Application Engine, the cluster group you specify must be enabled for Tanzu Application Engine.

8. Select the cluster class that you want to use as the template for this cluster. The list of cluster classes that you can choose from is taken from the provisioner (vSphere namespace) in your Supervisor.

9. (Optional) add a description and label. Creating one or more labels that help you identify the cluster makes it easier to create an Availability Target on a cluster. For more information, see Use Availability Targets.
10. Click Next.
11. Configure the control plane.
12. Configure node pools.
13. After finishing configuring your cluster, click Create.