You can add the workload domain for a central or regional site.

To add a workload domain, follow the steps:

Prerequisites

  • Obtain the licenses and network information required for configuration.

  • Regenerate the Self-Signed Certificates on ESXi Hosts. For details, see ESXi Host Certificate.

  • Ensure that you configure the gateway for vMotion and vSAN network.

Procedure

  1. Click Domains under Infrastructure Automation.
  2. Select the site type.

    • To add workload domain for central site, click Central Site.

    • To add workload domain for regional site, click Regional Site.

  3. Click the Add Workload Domain icon.

    The Add Workload Domain page appears.

  4. To enable the provisioning of the site, click the button corresponding to Enabled. You cannot perform operations in a disabled site.
  5. To add an existing workload domain, click the button corresponding to Pre-Deployed. When you enable Pre-Deployed, you must provide Default Resources.
    Note:

    • For a pre-deployed domain, VMware Telco Cloud Automation shows only the required configurations. Some of these configuration may not appear for non pre-deployed domains.

    • VMware Telco Cloud Automation does not perform any operation on a pre-deployed workload domain. However, you can add compute cluster and cell site group to the domain.

    • VMware Telco Cloud Automation can auto-detect the resources if only one resource for resource type is available in the vCenter. If multiple resources for each resource type are available, you must fill the values.

    • When you add a pre-deployed domain, always use Appliance Overrides to enter the vCenter IP, FQDN, and password.

    • For a pre-deployed domain, when adding the DVS name and management network in Appliance Overrides, ensure that the names match the corresponding DVS name and management network names in the vCenter.

    1. Datacenter - Enter the name of the data center.

    2. Cluster - Enter the name of the cluster.

    3. Datastore - Enter the name of the datastore.

  6. Enter the required details.

    Field

    Description

    Name

    The name of the site.

    Minimum number of hosts

    Minimum number of hosts required for the site. The number of hosts cannot be less than 4 or more than 64.

    Select Host Profile

    Select the host profile from the drop-down list. The selected Host profile gets associated with the each host in the workload domain.

    Parent site

    Select the parent site from the drop-down menu.

    Location

    The location of the site. Click to add the location details.

    Search

    Enter the keyword to search a location.

    Address

    Enter the address of the location.

    Latitude

    Latitude of the compute cluster location. The details are automatically added when you select the location. You can also modify the latitude manually.

    Longitude

    Longitude of the compute cluster location. The details are automatically added when you select the location. You can also modify the longitude manually.

    Settings

    You can modify the service settings and the proxy settings for each site. These configurations override the global configuration available in Global Configuration tab on Configuration page. For more details on service and proxy parameters, see Configure Global Settings.

    vSphere SSO Domain is available for local settings and not for global settings. To configure the vSphere SSO Domain for a domain, enable the Override and enter the required information in the corresponding Override Value.

    For a pre-deployed site, VMware Telco Cloud Automations shows vSphere SSO Username. Set the value of vSphere SSO Username to user belonging to the administrator group in the underlying VMware vCenter Server. If you do not provide the value, system takes administrator as default value.

    Licenses

    Licenses of various appliances applicable to the site. These appliances include:

    • VMware vSphere (ESXi)

    • VMware NSX-T Data Center

    • VMware Telco Cloud Automation (available only for Central site)

    • VMware Telco Cloud Automation Control Plane

    • VMware vCenter Server

    • VMware vRealize Log Insight

    • VMware vSAN

    Services

    You can enable the networking and storage operations for the specific site. You can also enable or disable the compression and duplication of data through

    vSAN Deduplication and Compression option.

    Note:

    The duplication and compression works only on the all-flash disk group. When you enable the vSAN Deduplication and Compression option, you cannot create a hybrid storage group.
  7. You can add new CSI categories or use the existing categories from the VMware VSphere server. You can also create tags corresponding to the CSI categories. To add the CSI Categories information, add the required information.
    Note:

    • To configure the CSI Categories, enable the Override for the CSI Tagging under Settings, and Override Value.

    • Once added, you cannot edit or remove the CSI configuration.

    Field

    Description

    Use Existing

    Whether to use the existing categories set in the underlying the VMware VSphere server. Click the corresponding button to enable or disable the option.

    Note:

    When use the Use Existing, ensure that you provide the values for both region categories and zone categories as set in the underlying VMware vSphere server.

    • When creating Zone category in VMware VSphere, choose Hosts and Clusters under Associable Object Types.

    • When creating Region category in VMware VSphere, choose Datacentre under Associable Object Types.

    Region

    The CSI category for the datacenter.

    Zone

    The CSI category for the compute clusters or hosts.

    CSI Region Tag

    The CSI tagging for the datacenter.

    CSI Zone Tag

    The CSI tagging for the compute clusters or hosts.
  8. Add the Switch Configuration information. Click plus icon to add more switches and uplinks.

    Field

    Description

    Switch

    The name of the switch.

    Uplinks

    Select the network interface card (NIC) for the regional site under Uplinks.

    Note:

    A regional site requires minimum two NICs to communicate. NIC details should match the actual configuration across all ESXi servers.
  9. Add the Networks information.
    Note:

    • For vMotion and vSAN, the IP pool should be equal to the total number of ESXi hosts.

    • To create additional VLAN or overlay network to connect with additional applications, click + sign under Networks.

    • For Application network type, you can add DHCP IP Pool.

    • Add the gateway and prefix length when creating the VLAN application network if you enable the networking service and deploy the edge cluster in NDC, RDC, or Compute Cluster.

    • Add the gateway and prefix length when creating the overlay network.

    • Ensure that you use same switch for NSX overlay, Host overlay and uplinks for each domain.

    Field

    Description

    Name

    The name of the network.

    Segment Type

    Segment type of the network. Select the value from the list.

    Network Type

    The type of the network.

    Switch

    The switch details which the site uses to access network.

    VLAN

    The VLAN ID for the network.

    MTU

    The MTU length (in bytes) for the network.

    Prefix Length

    The Prefix length for each packet for the network.

    Note:

    The prefix length is applicable only for the IPv4 environment.

    Gateway Address

    The gateway address for the network.

    Note:

    The gateway address is applicable only for the IPv4 environment.

    Network Address

    The network address for the network.
  10. (Optional) Add the Appliance Overrides information. Ensure that the appliance names match the actual names entered in DNS. If they do not match, you can change the name.
    Note:

    • For NSX-Edge cluster configuration:

      • To override the Edge form factor, select the Size from the drop-down menu.

      • To override the HA, select the Tier0Mode from the drop-down menu.

    • You can configure the Root Password, Admin Password, and Audit Password, and select the Use above credentials for all the password fields to use the same password for all the appliances.

    • When creating the password for following appliances, ensure that you follow the password guidelines

      • For Cloudbuilder:

        • Minimum password length for admin password is 8 characters and must include at least one uppercase, one lowercase, one digit, and one special character.

        • Minimum password length for root password is 8 characters and must include at least one uppercase, one lowercase, one digit, and one special character.

      • vCenter

        • The admin password length is between 8 to 20 character and must contain at least one uppercase, one lowercase, one digit, and one special character (@!#$%?^).

        • The root password length is between 8 to 20 character and must contain at least one uppercase, one lowercase, one digit, and one special character (@!#$%?^).

      • NSXT password

        • Minimum length for root, admin, and audit password is 12 characters and must contain at least one lower case, one uppercase, one digit, one special character. The password should contain at least 5 different characters. Password cannot contain three consecutive characters. Dictionary word is not allowed. The password should not contain more than four monotonic character sequence.

    Field

    Description

    Root Password

    Password of the root user of the appliance.

    Note:

    Minimum length of the password is 13 characters and it must include a special character, a capital letter, a lower-case letter, and a number.

    Admin Password

    Password of the administrator of the appliance.

    Note:

    Minimum length of the password is 13 characters and it must include a special character, a capital letter, a lower-case letter, and a number.

    Audit Password

    Password of the audit user. Applicable only for NSX Manager, and NSX Edge cluster.

    Note:

    Minimum length of the password is 13 characters and it must include a special character, a capital letter, a lower-case letter, and a number.

    Cluster Password

    Password for creating the cluster. Applicable only for VMware Telco Cloud Automation management cluster and bootstrapper cluster.

    Note:

    Minimum length of the password is 13 characters and it must include a special character, a capital letter, a lower-case letter, and a number.

    Override

    Whether to override the current values.

    Appliance Type

    The type of the appliance.

    Name

    The name of the appliance.

    Name Override

    The new name of the appliance to override the previous name of appliance.

    IP Index

    IP index of the appliance. The value is fourth octet of the IP address. The initial three octets are populated from the network address provided in domain.

    VMware Telco Cloud Automation uses IP index to calculate the IP address of the appliance. It adds the IP Index to the base address of the management network to obtain the IP address of the appliance.

    Note:

    • IP index is applicable only for the IPv4 environment.

    • The IP index depends on management subnet prefix length. Ensure that you provide IP index values within the IP range dictated by that subnet prefix length. For example, if you use subnet prefix length of 24, then the subnet has 254 IPs. Hence, the IP index value cannot exceed 254. If you use prefix length of 27 or 28, then the subnet has 30 or 14 IPs, respectively. The IP index values must then not exceed 30 or 14, respectively. Ensure that you check the values before adding the IP index.

    Enabled

    Whether the appliance is enabled and available for operations.

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