Install and configure the components of Telco Cloud Platform as described in this guide.

Note:

Depending on the Telco workloads (VNFs or CNFs) that you want to run, you can skip deploying the components that are not relevant.

The following tables describe the high-level process for deploying and configuring the platform.

Table 1. Physical Infrastructure

Steps

Component

Description

1.

Network

Wiring and physical switch ports and configuration.

2.

Compute

Physical hardware deployment and configuration, and ESXi installation.

3.

Storage

(Applies to vSAN) Pass-through RAID configuration and vSAN compatibility check.
Table 2. Infrastructure Components

Step

Component

Deployment process

1

Management vCenter

  1. Installing a vCenter appliance

  2. Configuring general settings

  3. Configuring a management cluster

  4. Configuring network

  5. Configuring vSAN datastore (or other datastores such as NFS, iSCSI, and so on) for the management cluster

2

Compute vCenter

  1. Installing a vCenter appliance

  2. Configuring general settings

  3. Configuring a compute cluster

  4. Configuring an edge cluster

  5. Configuring network

  6. Configuring vSAN datastore for edge and compute clusters

  7. SRIOV Configuration

3

NSX

  1. Install NSX Manager

  2. Add Compute Managers (Management vCenter)

  3. Deploy additional NSX manager nodes to form a cluster with Virtual IP Address

  4. Add Compute Managers (Resource vCenter)

  5. Configure NSX logical components, such as Transport zones, Transport node profile, IP Pools for TEP (Tunnel End Point), and uplink profiles

  6. Configure only the Resource ESXi host transport nodes

  7. Deploy and configure NSX Edge transport nodes

  8. Deploy and Configure NSX Standard and Enhanced networking
Table 3. VIM Components

Steps

Component

Description

1.

VMware Cloud Director

  1. Install and Configure VMware Cloud Director

  2. Configure cells with Avi Load Balancer

  3. Integrate VMware Cloud Director with Compute vCenter and NSX Manager

  4. Configure Provider Virtual Data Center backed by NSX manager and vCenter
Table 4. Operations Management

Step

Component

Deployment process

1

Aria Automation Orchestrator

  1. Deploy and configure Aria Automation Orchestrator nodes

  2. Integrate Aria Automation Orchestrator with vCenter, VMware Cloud Director, and Telco Cloud Automation

2

Aria Operations for Logs

  1. Deploy one Aria Operations for Logs primary node and two worker nodes

  2. Configure Aria Operations for Logs cluster with Integrated Load Balancer

  3. Install and configure Aria Operations for Logs content packs for the applicable Telco Cloud solution components

3

Aria Operations

  1. Deploy one Aria Operations primary node and two data nodes

  2. Install and configure Aria Operations Management packs for the applicable Telco Cloud solution components

4

Aria Operations for Networks

  1. Deploy Aria Operations for Networks Platform and Proxy nodes

  2. Integrate Aria Operations for Networks with vCenter Servers and NSX Manager.
Table 5. Infrastructure Automation

Step

Component

Deployment process

1

Telco Cloud Automation

  1. Download the Installer OVA

  2. Deploy Telco Cloud Automation and Telco Cloud Automation-Control Plane (TCA-CP) nodes

  3. Activate TCA Manager

  4. Configure the Appliances - TCA-CP and TCA Manager

  5. Deploy and Configure the Airgap Server

  6. Deploy Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters

  7. Deploy and Configure Harbor for CNFs
Table 6. Load Balancer

Step

Component

Deployment process

1

VMware Avi Load Balancer

  1. Download the Avi Controller OVA

  2. Deploy Avi Controller on a vCenter

  3. Configure the Avi Controller

  4. Install the Avi Kubernetes Operator on a CaaS cluster
Table 7. Telco Cloud Service Assurance

Step

Component

Deployment Process

1

Telco Cloud Service Assurance

  1. Deploy Telco Cloud Service Assurance

  2. Configure Telco Cloud Service Assurance
Table 8. vSphere Replication and Live Site Recovery

Step

Component

Deployment Process

1

vSphere Replication & Live Site Recovery

  1. Install vSphere Replication on the protected and recovery sites

  2. Install Live Site Recovery on the protected and recovery sites

  3. Pair the protected and recovery sites