After deploying VMware Telco Cloud Platform, verify that all the components are working as expected. Delete the snapshots that you took before the deployment.

Category

Component

Verify

Physical Infrastructure

Network

  • Switches are accessible.

  • All VLAN communications are working properly.

Compute

  • Open the host client on a browser and verify that you can log in to the host.

Storage

  • vSAN is accessible and is in a healthy state.

  • SSDs and HDDs are available in the ESXi servers.

NFVI & VIM

Management and Compute vCenter

  • Management and Compute vCenter are accessible.

  • All cluster properties are correct.

  • All vSphere Distributed Switches are working properly.

NSX

  • NSX Manager and its component connection status must be up and in green color.

  • Management hosts are added as transport nodes in the NSX Manager.

  • Edge and compute hosts are added as transport nodes in the NSX Manager.

  • NSX edges are added as transport nodes in the NSX Manager.

  • Bare metal edge is added as a transport node in the NSX Manager.

  • ENS is configured.

VMware Cloud Director

  • VMware Cloud Director is accessible.

  • VMware Cloud Director is successfully installed, registered with vCenter, and configured to work with NSX.

Tanzu Kubernetes cluster

  • All pods in the Tanzu Kubernetes management and workload clusters must be up and running.

  • Users must be able to instantiate new Cloud native Network Functions (CNFs).

  • Users must be able to deploy new Tanzu Kubernetes clusters.

Operations Management

VMware Aria Operations for Logs

  • UI for VMware Aria Operations for Logs is accessible.

  • All configured content pack components are accessible.

VMware Aria Operations

  • UI for VMware Operations is accessible.

  • All configured management components are accessible.

VMware Aria Operations for Networks

  • Aria Operations for Networks is accessible and data sources are configured.

Aria Automation Orchestrator

  • Aria Automation Orchestrator is accessible, and you can run workflows.

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

vSphere Replication

  • vSphere Replication servers are registered with respective vCenter Servers for both the protected and recovery sites.

Live Site Recovery

  • Live Site Recovery from both the protected and recovery sites are accessible.

  • The protected and recovery sites are connected, and the pair appeared on the home page of the Site Recovery user interface.