This section describes the high-level steps to install and configure ESXi hosts for the compute workload domain.

For detailed instructions, see the VMware vSphere 8.0 documentation.

Procedure

  1. Install ESXi hosts.
    Note:

    • Do not configure RAID on the physical hosts.

    • Logs are stored on non-persistent storage. Refer to the corresponding product documentation to configure a syslog server or a scratch partition. Later, change the syslog to point to Aria Operations for Logs.

    • To download ESXi, see the Telco Cloud Platform RAN Essentials 5.0 downloads page.

  2. Specify the network parameters for the host. Use static IP addresses and ensure that the VLAN ID is set for the management network.
  3. Specify a root password for the ESXi host.
  4. Configure the ESXi hosts:
    1. Verify that the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the ESXi host is resolvable.
    2. Configure the appropriate VLAN ID for the VMkernel port group.
    3. Verify that all ESXi hosts can ping each other.