VMware Telco Cloud Automation Control Plane or TCA-CP is a component of VMware Telco Cloud Automation that provides the infrastructure for placing workloads across clouds.

Prerequisites

Deploy the VMware Telco Cloud Automation OVA. After deploying, allow up to five minutes for the services to initialize.

Procedure

  1. Browse to the appliance management interface and log in using the tca user credentials.

    Browse to https://tca-cp-or-fqdn:9443.

    After you log in, the installation welcome screen appears.
  2. Click Continue.
    The Select the role for this Telco Cloud Automation Appliance screen appears.
  3. Select Telco Cloud Automation - Control Plane Appliance and click Continue.
  4. In the Activate your Telco Cloud Automation instance screen:
    1. Enter the license key and click the Activate button.
    2. To activate the VMware Telco Cloud Automation instance at a later stage, click Activate later. When you click Activate Later, the system navigates to the Configuration tab for configuring the data center location.
    3. To restore an earlier version of VMware Telco Cloud Automation, click Restore. The system navigates to the Backup & Restore tab for backup and restore operations.

What to do next

Configure TCA-CP. See Configure VMware Telco Cloud Automation Control Plane.