You must install the ESXi Hypervisor on each physical host for the management domain.
Prerequisites
Verify that the FQDNs of the hosts are resolvable.
Procedure
- Install the following ESXi hosts on a local disk of 128 GB or larger for optimal support of ESXi Hypervisor.
ESXi_MGMT_01
ESXi_MGMT_02
ESXi_MGMT_03
ESXi_MGMT_04
For the detailed ESXi installation instructions, see Installing and Setting Up ESXi.
To download ESXi, see the Telco Cloud Platform Essentials or Advanced downloads page.
Note:
Logs are stored on non-persistent storage. Refer to the corresponding component documentation to configure a syslog server or a scratch partition. Later, change syslog to point to Aria Operations for Logs.
The use of Legacy SD and USB devices for ESX-OSData partitions is deprecated.
- Configure the network parameters, such as IP address, Netmask, Gateway, DNS, and FQDN, for the host.
- Specify a root password for the ESXi host.
- Configure the ESXi hosts:
- Verify that the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the ESXi host is resolvable.
- Configure the appropriate VLAN ID for the VMkernel port group.
- Verify that all ESXi hosts can ping each other.
- Create a VM Management port group only on ESXi_MGMT_01 with VLAN (for example, 10) on the standard switch. The port group is required when you deploy the Management vCenter.
- (Optional) Configure the VMkernel adapter for NFS connectivity on the ESXi_MGMT_01 host.
- Configure the local datastore for ESXi_MGMT_01.
- Configure and synchronize NTP with ESXi hosts.