To be able to manage the ESXi hosts in the second availability zone from SDDC Manager, after you connect the ESXi hosts to the virtual infrastructure of the workload domain, add them to the workload domain record in the inventory of VMware Cloud Foundation.

Procedure

  1. Create an update.inventory.json file by using the sample in the /opt/vmware/sddc-support/services folder on the SDDC Manager appliance.
  2. Modify the JSON file with details for each ESXi host in the Availability Zone 2 including IP addresses for the vSAN and vSphere vMotion traffic. 
    {
  "domainName": "sfo01-w01",
  "clusterName": "sfo01-w01-shared01",
  "hosts": [
    {
      "fqdn": "sfo02w01esx01.sfo01.rainpole.local",
      "vsanIp": "172.16.63.101",
      "vmotionIp": "172.16.62.101"
    },
    {
      "fqdn": "sfo02w01esx02.sfo01.rainpole.local",
      "vsanIp": "172.16.63.102",
      "vmotionIp": "172.16.62.102"
    },
	{
      "fqdn": "sfo02w01esx03.sfo01.rainpole.local",
      "vsanIp": "172.16.63.103",
      "vmotionIp": "172.16.62.103"
    },
	{
      "fqdn": "sfo02w01esx04.sfo01.rainpole.local",
      "vsanIp": "172.16.63.104",
      "vmotionIp": "172.16.62.104"
    }
  ]
}
  3. By using an SCP client, such as WinSCP, copy the update.inventory.json to the /tmp folder on SDDC Manager appliance.
  4. Run the following command. 
    /opt/vmware/sddc-support/sos --update-domain-inventory /tmp/update.inventory.json