VMware Cloud Director is the Virtualized Infrastructure Manager component that VMware Telco Cloud Platform exposes as the interface for the VNF life cycle management. It uses vCenter and NSX Manager to orchestrate compute, storage, network, and imaging infrastructure services from a single, programmable interface.

You can create a VMware Cloud Director server group by deploying one or more instances of the VMware Cloud Director appliance.

The VMware Cloud Director appliance includes an embedded PostgreSQL database. The embedded PostgreSQL database includes the Replication Manager (repmgr) tool suite, which provides the High Availability (HA) function to a cluster of PostgreSQL servers. You can create an appliance deployment with a database HA cluster that provides failover capabilities to your VMware Cloud Director database. For more information, see VMware Cloud Director Appliance Deployments and Database High Availability Configuration.

Follow these steps:

  1. Prerequisites for Deploying the VMware Cloud Director Appliance.

  2. Deploy Avi Load Balancer for VMware Cloud Director cells.

  3. Deploy the VMware Cloud Director Appliance.

  4. Configure VMware Cloud Director.