If you have an existing vCenter, you can deploy the Compute vCenter instance on that vCenter. If you do not have an existing vCenter, deploy the vCenter first and then deploy the Compute vCenter instance.

Prerequisites

  1. Download a copy of the vCenter installer file and mount the installer ISO to a local drive. To download vCenter, see the Telco Cloud Platform RAN Essentials 5.0 downloads page.

  2. Verify that the FQDN that you use with vCenter TCP_RAN_COMP_VC is registered in the DNS server for forward and reverse proxy.

  3. Verify that the FQDN and IP can be resolved.

  4. Verify that the ESXi is reachable from the system where the Compute vCenter installer is mounted.

  5. Verify that a network route is present between the Compute vCenter and the Management vCenter.

Procedure

  1. Install the Compute vCenter Instance.

  2. Create the Compute Cluster.

  3. Create the Compute vSphere Distributed Switch.

  4. Enable vSAN Services on Compute Cluster.

  5. Configure the Compute Cluster for vSphere DRS.

  6. Configure the Compute Cluster for vSphere High Availability.