Add Data Centers and vCenter Server Instances to vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager for Consolidated SDDC

Before you can create an environment for product deployments, you must add a data center and the associated vCenter Server instance to vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager.

You add a data center for the deployment in Consolidated SDDC for each of the following groups of components:

• Cross-region components, such as the analytics cluster of vRealize Operations Manager and the main components of the Cloud Management Platform.

• Local-region components, such as vRealize Log Insight and vRealize Log Insight Content Packs.

Procedure

1. Log in to vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager user interface.
   1. Open a Web browser and go to https://vrslcm01svr01a.rainpole.local/vrlcm.
   2. Log in using the following credentials.

      Setting	Value
      User name	admin@localhost
      Password	vrslcm_admin_password

2. In the Navigator, click the Data Centers icon.
3. Add the data centers.
   1. On the Data Centers page, click the Manage Data Centers tab and click Add Data Center.
   2. In the Add Data Center dialog box, add the data centers by entering the following information and clicking Add.

      Setting	Value for Consolidated Region	Value for Cross-Region
      Name	sfo01-w01dc	cross-region-dc
      Location	San Francisco, California, US	San Francisco, California, US

4. Add the vCenter Server instances.
   1. On the Data Centers page, click the Manage vCenter Servers tab.
   2. From the Select Data Center drop-down menu, select sfo01-w01dc and click Add vCenter Server.
   3. In the Add vCenter Server Details dialog box, enter the following vCenter Server information for each data center and click Submit.

      Setting	Value for the sfo01-w01dc Data Center	Value for the cross-region-dc Data Center
      Host Name	sfo01w01vc01.sfo01.rainpole.local	sfo01w01vc01.sfo01.rainpole.local
      User Name	[e-mail]	[e-mail]
      Password	svc-vrslcm-vsphere_password	svc-vrslcm-vsphere_password
      vCenter Server Type	Consolidated Management and Workload	Consolidated Management and Workload

   4. Repeat the steps to add the vCenter Server instance to the other data center.
5. In the Navigator, click Requests and validate that VC_DATA_COLLECTION for each vCenter Server instance shows COMPLETED.