Deploying Telco Cloud Automation

This section describes how to install and activate Telco Cloud Automation Control Plane (TCA-CP) and VMware Telco Cloud Automation Manager components.

VMware Telco Cloud Automation Manager connects with TCA-CP to communicate with the VIMs. TCA-CP is deployed as an OVA. The VIMs are cloud platforms such as VMware Cloud Director, vSphere, Kubernetes Cluster, or VMware Integrated OpenStack. A dedicated instance of TCA-CP is required for each VIM. Telco Cloud Automation communicates with the NSX manager through the VIM layer. A single instance of the NSX manager is used to support multiple VIM types. Aria Automation Orchestrator registers with TCA-CP to run customized workflows for CNF onboarding and day 2 life cycle management.

Deploying the TCA-CP and TCA Manager appliances require information about vCenter Server sites, networks, and configurations. You can deploy Telco Cloud Automation in the following ways:

• Cloud native-based deployment (primiarly used for public cloud AWS and EKS)

  Note:

  Cloud-native deployment is recommended only in Public Cloud environments.

• VM-based deployment

  Note:

  VM-based deployments are preferred for vSphere environments.

This section describes how to install and activate TCA-CP and VMware Telco Cloud Automation Manager components using the VM-based deployment. For more information, see Deploying VM-based Telco Cloud Automation.