In VMware Cloud Foundation, after you deploy the bare-metal NSX-T Edge nodes in the NSX-T workload domain, to connect them to the NSX-T Manager cluster, join them to the management plane.

Prerequisites

Start the SSH service on the first NSX-T Manager node sfo01wnsx01a.sfo.rainpole.local.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the first NSX-T Manager node by using an SSH client.
    Setting Value
    FQDN sfo01wnsx01a.sfo.rainpole.local
    User name admin
    Password nsx-admin-password
  2. Save the thumbprint ID of the certificate for the NSX-T Manager cluster by running and copying the output from the following command. 
    get certificate api thumbprint
  3. Log in to the first NSX-T Edge node by using an SSH client.
    Setting Value
    FQDN sfo01wesg01.sfo.rainpole.local
    User name admin
    Password nsx-t-edge-admin_password
  4. Join the NSX-T Edge node to the management plane by running the following command. 
    join management-plane sfo01wnsx01a.sfo.rainpole.local thumbprint thumbprint_id username admin
  5. Enter the password for the admin account.
  6. Repeat Step 3 to Step 5 for the other bare-metal NSX-T Edge node sfo01wesg02.