Deploying VMware Telco Cloud Automation Using OVF Tool

If you are deploying VMware Telco Cloud Automation using the Open Virtualization Format Tool (OVF Tool), ensure that you provide a value to the applianceRole parameter.

You can provide one of the following values:

• Manager
• ControlPlane

For example:

ovftool \
--acceptAllEulas --noSSLVerify --disableVerification --allowExtraConfig \
--X:enableHiddenProperties --X:injectOvfEnv --powerOn --X:waitForIp \
--X:logFile=./ovf_deployment.log --X:logLevel=verbose \
--name="TCA" --datastore="TCA_DATASTORE01" \
--net:VSMgmt="VM Network" --vmFolder="VM_FOLDER" --diskMode=thin \
--allowExtraConfig --prop:'mgr_ip_protocol'="IPv4" --prop:'mgr_ip_0'=10.10.10.2 \
--prop:'mgr_prefix_ip_0'=24 --prop:'mgr_gateway_0'=10.10.10.1 \
--prop:'mgr_dns_list'=10.10.10.10 --prop:'mgr_ntp_list'=10.10.10.10 \
--prop:'mgr_cli_passwd'=admin --prop:'mgr_root_passwd'=admin --prop:'tca_user_passwd'=admin\
--prop:'externalAddress=<>
--prop:'mgr_isSSHEnabled'=True --prop:'hostname'="TCA_HOSTNAME" \
--prop:'service_wfh'=True
--prop:'applianceRole'='ControlPlane' 
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Note:

The property --prop:'service_wfh'=True is parsed if it is TCA manager and the configuration is X-Large only.

Following table lists deployment configuration values for the TCA deployment. Ensure that you pass the property --deploymentOption=. If the value is not passed, the default deployment will be Large.

Configuration	Value
Small	Small-ForSmallTCAControlPlaneDeployments
Medium	Medium-ForStandardTCAControlPlaneDeployments
Large	Large-ForStandardTCAManagerDeployments
X-Large	XLarge-ForTCAManagerwithWorkflowHubDeployments